 | John Ward - 1839 - 344 pages
...faith and ruthless murder, without dwelling for a moment on the character of its splendid victim, " Than whom a better Senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms repell'd." Vane had, it is true, been excepted in the Act of Indemnity, but the same House of Commons... | |
 | John Ward - Clergy - 1839 - 356 pages
...faith and ruthless murder, without dwelling for a moment on the character of its splendid victim, " Than whom a better Senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms repell'd." Vane had, it is true, been excepted in the Act of Indemnity, but the same House of Commons... | |
 | Popular literature - 1840 - 480 pages
...who attempted an insult on the chastity of his daughter. There is not a father in New England, who who would not have applauded the blow. And when he...Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Home, when gowns, not arms, repelled The flerce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace,... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw. TO SIR HENRY VANE, THE YOUNGER. VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than...ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd The fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. XVII. TO SIR HENRY VANE, THE YOUNGER. VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than...ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd The fierce Epirot and the African bold ; Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...statesman we may say a few words, taking Milton's sonnet as our text, which was sent him July 3, 1652. Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than...better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, nor arms, repell'd The fierce Epirote and the African bold. Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...pronounces a noble eulogy on him in the sonnet which commences, " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsels old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome." united themselves with Roger Williams and his friends at Providence ; and in March, 1638, by his aid,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Biography & Autobiography - 1846 - 314 pages
...the following sonnet " to Sir HENRY VANE, the younger." " Vane, young in years, but in sage council old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm...of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epi rot and the A frican bold ; Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard... | |
 | John Forster - Great Britain - 1846 - 726 pages
...composed by a learned gentleman, and sent him July 3, 1652. ' VARK, young in yean, but in fare council old. Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, reptU'U The fierce Eperiot, and the African bold. Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1847 - 506 pages
...upon the Protectorate were nothing more than the successful results of measures planned by the younger Vane, — " young in years, but in sage counsel old,...repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold," — and the patriot statesmen of the Long Parliament. It is to an unjustifiable appropriation of their... | |
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Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage : besides to know Both spiritual power and... 
