 No war, or battle's sound Was 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 arme'd throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 2311873Full view - About this book
 | Phillips Brooks - Sermons, American - 1838 - 394 pages
...throughout the world, and that the Temple of War was shut. This is what Milton sings so splendidly : — " No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around, The idle spear mid shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood, The trumpet spake... | |
 | Twenty essays - Christian life - 1838 - 212 pages
...with many nations. One monarch reigned "from the ocean to the Euphrates." " No war or battle's sonnd Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high np hong ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...dividing- ; so And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. IV. No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung, 55 The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng,... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they? — BYRON. Into LATIN ALCAICS : No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon... | |
 | Christian education - 1847 - 720 pages
...heard the world around; fhung; The idle spear and shield were high up The hooked chariot stood retained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. The nations of the earth were now by conquest brought into closer contact, and... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...waving wide her myrtle-wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or hattle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...clouds dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes an universal peace through sea and land. ver; by thee I live. Though now to Death I yield, and am his due All that of mo hang ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - Church history - 1842 - 396 pages
...in Bethlehem, " Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, and good will among men." " No war nor battle's sound Was heard the world around, The idle...shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, But peaceful was the night,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...clouds dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...clouds dividing; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes an universal peace through sea and land. l'd my Son, To earn salvation for the sons of men."...hymns Burst lorth, and in celestiat measures mov'd, tho armed throng ; And kings sat stitl with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was... | |
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