And all our dainty terms for fratricide ; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike... The Monthly chronicle; a national journal - Page 3841841Full view - About this book
| 1799 - 618 pages
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which...empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no fotm, As if" the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without... | |
| 1799 - 614 pages
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes affluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which...tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which \Ve join no feeling and attach no form, » As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1799 - 614 pages
...Like mere abftraftions, empty founds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As it the foldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch* Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pafs'd off to heaven,... | |
| 1799 - 614 pages
...fratricide, Terms which we trundle iiitoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abftraftiojis, empty founds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if the foldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike fra.rne Were gor'd without a pang:... | |
| 1812 - 654 pages
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which...wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch-, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven,... | |
| 1812 - 664 pages
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongue*. Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if... | |
| 1812 - 656 pages
...of his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongue* Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if... | |
| 1842 - 634 pages
...from his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide ; Terms which...sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form 1 As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this god-like frame Were gored without... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...to- see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning-meal ! The poor wretch, who has learnt his only prayers From...sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! p As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and deceit, 68 And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tonguos Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! ' , •... | |
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