 | Arnold Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell - 1987 - 442 pages
...the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd by hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. An opportunity so marvellous might well seem heaven-sent; yet, in the relation... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 pages
...Milton's version of the phenomenon human as well as natural conflict is suspended: No war, or Battels sound Was heard the World around The idle Spear and...The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And Kings sate still with awfull eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. [53-60] The second stage... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 440 pages
...the world around; The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot^ stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed...As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. 5 But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 pages
...clouds dividing, And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. 4 No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around;...spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot 10 stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...dividing,0 And waving wide her myrtle wand,0 She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. IV No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around...spear and shield were high up hung, The hooked chariot stood0 Unstained with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still... | |
 | John Knowles Paine - 2004 - 188 pages
...dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Chorus No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around:...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was nigh. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon... | |
 | Paul Keen - 2004 - 380 pages
...heard the world around; The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by." This spirit is knowledge. The "sovran Lord" is that gigantic sense of the general... | |
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began... 
