 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...  Foundation English: The Expression of Ideas - Page 99by Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng : And kings sat still wirh awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the nteht, Wherein the Priuce of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...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...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The... | |
 | Eustace Rogers Conder - 1881 - 236 pages
...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...As if they surely knew their Sovran Lord was by." Before a generation had passed, the Imperial Government was to enter upon the task of suppressing the... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...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...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. v. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began :... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1881 - 108 pages
...Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." Or this from Milton's Christmas Ode : — "And kings sate still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran lord was by." In these none but the commonest words are used, and yet the poetical effectiveness of the style is... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...'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;...As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.' Or again: 'But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peuce upon the earth... | |
 | Winter pictures - 1882 - 200 pages
...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...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. • But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light, His reign of peace upon the earth began... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 396 pages
...war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; " The hooked chariot stood, Unstained with hostile blood...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 60 v. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.... | |
 | Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 156 pages
...war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; 55 The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran lord was by. 60 v. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1882 - 362 pages
...world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd «ith hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Li^ht His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
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