 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...heard the world around; The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, [by. As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince... | |
 | 1850 - 298 pages
...the world at the time of Christ's nativity is thus beautifully alluded to in Milton's Hymn : — " No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; Unstain'd with hostile blood The hooked chariot stood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd wondrous pitiful Ftill with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night,... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1851 - 308 pages
...until the Saviour's Advent. Then indeed " No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : v The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign Lord was by." But this was a brief calm. The elements of contention, awed and lulled for... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the...As if they surely knew their sov'ran Lord was by. * Varum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Otfendar maculis quas aut incuria fudit, Aut humana... | |
 | Alfred Bate Richards - 1851 - 284 pages
...the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up-hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was nigh." As we write, a feeling steals over us, as if we had known a Christmas in time long past away,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle sound, Was heard the world around: The idle spear...shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear...shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...wide her mirtle wand, 51 She ftrikes a univerfal Peace through Sea and Land. 4No War, or Battels found Was heard the World around The idle Spear and Shield were high up hung, The hooked Chariot ftood Unftain'd with hoftile blood, The Trumpet fpake not to the armed throng, And Kings fate ftill... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...1629, when he was in his twenty-first fear, probably as a eollege exereise. Mark this stansa: — No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked ehariot stood Cnstain'd with human blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
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No war, or battle's sound, Was 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 throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely... 
