 Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own...  The Canadian Monthly and National Review - Página 2791872Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 páginas
...spirit than the Court whose badge he wears. Here is a specimen of his wild, visionary abuse : •' Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have...lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or wurse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? Bat these are the days... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 436 páginas
...man, now lord of the broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us 6. Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have...the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? 7. But these are the days of advance, the works of the men of mind, When who but a fool would have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 páginas
...man, now lord of the broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us 6. Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have...the citizen- hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? 7. But these are the days of advance, the works of the men of mind, When who but a fool would have... | |
 | 1855 - 714 páginas
...the Children." But there is also the profoundest sadness in this terrible burst. "Why do they prato of the blessings of Peace ? we have made them a curse,...citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? " But thes^ are the days of advance, the works of the men of mind, When who but a fool would have faith in... | |
 | 1855 - 808 páginas
...the broad estate and the ) l.di. Droiiped of gorged from a tchtrae that had left wJtaccM and drain'd, Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have...own ; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it bettor or worse Than tla heart of the citlim hissing in tear on ha own hearthstone t But these are... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 776 páginas
...workings of man's nature On a heart half tura'd to «tone." exhibited with a scornful power : — " Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have...curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that U not its own ; Л ml lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of... | |
 | 1855 - 684 páginas
...the Children." But there is also the profoundest sadness in this terrible burst. "Why do they prnte of the blessings of Peace ? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is net its own : And last of gain, in the spirit of Cain, U it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen... | |
 | 1855 - 504 páginas
...in Maud, but the " curses " of Peace are repeatedly dwelt upon. Thus, in the first division: — " Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have made them a curse The author then proceeds, for eight stanzas, in the strongest language, to enumerate the evils of peace... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 páginas
...as the reader will be disposed to allow, in more souses than one. He exclaims, in his "Maud" — " Why do they prate of the blessings of peace ? We have made them a ourse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own ; And lust of gain, in the spirit... | |
 | 1855 - 972 páginas
...made to school the age to which he is represented as being so great a blessing and ornament: — " Why do they prate of the blessings of peace ? we have made them а сигяе: Pickpockets, euch hand lusting for all that is not its own; And the lust of gain, in... | |
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