 From curses, who knows scarcely words enough To ask a blessing from his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide ; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues...  Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters - Pagina 254door William Hazlitt - 1819 - 439 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1799 - 618 pagina’s
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which...empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no fotm, As if" the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without... | |
 | 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes affluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which...tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which \Ve join no feeling and attach no form, » As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres... | |
 | 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...fratricide, Terms which we trundle iiitoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abftraftiojis, empty founds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if the foldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike fra.rne Were gor'd without a pang:... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...Like mere abftraftions, empty founds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As it the foldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch* Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pafs'd off to heaven,... | |
 | 1812 - 654 pagina’s
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which...wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch-, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven,... | |
 | 1812 - 656 pagina’s
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongue* Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if... | |
 | 1812 - 664 pagina’s
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongue*. Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pagina’s
...from his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide ; Terms which...sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form 1 As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this god-like frame Were gored without... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pagina’s
...from his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and deceit, And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which...sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! p As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pagina’s
...his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and deceit, 68 And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tonguos Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! ' , •... | |
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