 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 páginas
...monumental fame; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short-liv'd themselves, t' immortalize their bones. , Some seek diversion in the tented field,...were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | 1802 - 302 páginas
...pomp, Short-liv'd themselves, to immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjefts wise, Kings would not play at. Nations wouJd do well To extort their truncheons from the puny... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 páginas
...monumental fame ; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short-liv'd themselves, t' immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind thpr sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 páginas
...monumental fame ; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short-lived themselves, to immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field,...were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hand.s Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 464 páginas
...Cowper, now and then, suffered under a passing cloud of narrow prejudice. H« ha* said, that " War is a game, which, were their subjects Wise, Kings would not play at." I take for granted, he does not mean to allude merely to particular instances of a wanton exercise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 páginas
...monumental fame; and sought By pyramids and mausolcan pomp, Short-liv'd themselves, t' immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field,...were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and buby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 páginas
...of monumental fame ; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp. Short HvM themselves, t' immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field,...were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | 1811 - 550 páginas
...Yet the people too often, like their rulers, are fond of war and are dazzled by it« false glitter. " But war's a game which were their subjects wise, " Kings would not play at."— Government are now openly by their agents purchasing guineas on the Exchange of Belfast. Will the English... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 páginas
...word remind the reader of Covvper, one of tlie most excellent, poetical, and miserable of men! War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny liamU Of heroes, w hose infirm and baby... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 330 páginas
...Cowper now and then suffered under a passing cloud of narrow prejudice. He has said, that " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." I take for granted, that he does not mean to allude merely to particular instances of a wanton exercise... | |
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Short-lived themselves, to immortalise their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
