 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 Pardoner's Wallet - Stran 110avtor: Samuel McChord Crothers - 1905 - 287 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Immanuel Kant - 1903 - 226 strani
...271). f Cf. Tennyson's Afaud: Part I., vi. and xiii. " Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace 5 we have made them a curse. Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its owu ; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen... | |
 | Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 190 strani
...for a vast | speculation had failed which is the metre of the Northern Farmer truncated six-foot A Why | do they prate | of the bless|ings of peace ? We have made | them a curse. The six-foot anapaest is used in many important poems, as the two Northern Farmers, the Grandmother,... | |
 | 1903 - 394 strani
...57 Whom for thy race of heroes w1lt thou own . . 78 Who to the murmurs of an earthly string . . 50 Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? We have made them a curse 89 Why is it that ye grieve, O weak in faith . . 249 Why lingers my gaze where the last hues of day... | |
 | 1904 - 332 strani
...against the Cain-like temper of much modern commerce. The lines are familiar as they are powerful : " Why do they prate of the blessings of peace ? we have...the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?" If, in trade, a man takes advantage unfairly of a temporary depression in the market, or of the helplessness... | |
 | 1904 - 328 strani
...against the Cain-like temper of much modern commerce. The lines are familiar as they are powerful : "Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? we have...the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?" If, in trade, a man takes advantage unfairly of a temporary depression in the market, or of the helplessness... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 572 strani
...countrymen, was carried off his feet by the exciting thrill of a great war — goes even further : Why do they prate of the blessings of peace ? We have made them a curse. Is it peace or war ? Better, war ! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 560 strani
...fellow countrymen, was carried off his feet by the exciting thrill of a great war—goes even further: Why do they prate of the blessings of peace ? We have made them a curse. Is it peace or war ? Better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1906 - 666 strani
...perhaps, Maud, with its denunciation of the mechanical routine of worldly, sordid, business life " Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have...the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? ***••*•» Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 strani
...the broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd. 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 - 1908 - 610 strani
...broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain' d. VI. Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have...the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? VII. But these are the days of advance, the works of the men of mind, When who but a fool would have... | |
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