 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well, T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy, the world. When Babel was confounded, and the great Confed'racy of projectors wild and vain Was split into diversity... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do welt To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief; and who spoil, Becanse men suffer it, their toy the World. When Babel was confounded, and the great Confederacy of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do wel], T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the World. When Babel was confounded, and the great Confed'racy of projectors wild and viiin Was split into diversity... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Arc gratified with mischief ; and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world. When Babel was confounded, and the great Confederacy of projectors wild and vain Was split into diversity... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 246 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief; ajxl who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toj the World. When Babel was confounded, and the great... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world. When Babel was confounded, and the great Confederacy of projectors wild and vain Was split into diversity... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 818 pages
...the words of a modern poet :— • "' Nations would do well T extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy, the world." The bill was read a third time. MARRIAGE ACT REPEAL BILL.] — The House having gone into a committee... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor - 1823 - 448 pages
...subject wise, ' Kings would not play at. Nations would do well ' To extort their truncheons from the puny hands ' Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds, •'...spoil •'Because men suffer it, their toy the world." The opinion, held by too many persons, tlint the storm of war is at times essentially necessun to purify... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the World. When Babel was confounded and the great Confederacy of projectors wild and vain Was split into diversity... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To* extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy, the world. When Babel was confounded, and the great Confederacy of projectors wild and vain Was split into diversity... | |
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And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To* extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief;... 
