 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...armed throng , And kings sat still with aweful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by nd all our sex is one. False are our words, and fickle...empire made, AJike * Delusive sighs and brittle vo [w«w. While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed The stars, with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in stedfast... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - 1820 - 314 pages
...the world around, Tfo hostile chie/s to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night, In wiiich the Prince Of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In social circle sat, while all around The gentle... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - 1820 - 308 pages
...heard the world around, $Jo hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the niphtj In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon, the earth began. 2 The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, Jn social circle sat, while all around The gentle... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...armed throng ; And kings sat still with aweful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...\ While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed The stars, with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light...The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kiss'd, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean; Who now hath quite forgot to rave, [wave. While birds... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...not quite so unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and it closes beautifully — 36 Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. • ' 36 Ocean. The thirteen succeeding stanzas are disfigured by numerous conceits : but from the... | |
 | 1822 - 276 pages
...heard the world around ; No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night, In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In social circle sat ; while all around The gentle... | |
 | David Pickering - 1822 - 446 pages
...the world around ; No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night, ' In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In social circle sat ; while al^ around The... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 376 pages
...heard the world around ; No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night, In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn In social circle sat ; while all around The gentle,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. 60 V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, 65 Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit... | |
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began... 
