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
| Alexander freiherr von Gleichen-Russwurm - 1909 - 706 strani
...Schlösser : Why do they prate of t he blcssings of peace? we have made them a curse, Pidepodeets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And...lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or morse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearth stone ? But these are the days... | |
| 1910 - 532 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 faith... | |
| 1910 - 534 strani
...the broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd. Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have...gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse 1 han the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone ? 7 But these are the days of... | |
| 1910 - 490 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 made them a And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 1092 strani
...broad estate and the Hall, Dropt off gorged from a scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd. TL 0 0 vn. But these are the days of advance, the works of the men of mind, When who but a foul would have... | |
| William Torrey Harris - 1915 - 228 strani
...commerce, with a corresponding depression of the State as such — is vividly portrayed in the first canto. "Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? We have...or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in waf on his own hearthstone ? "But these are the days of advance, the works of the men of mindr When... | |
| Immanuel Kant - 1915 - 258 strani
...Bluntschli's Gcsammelte Kleine Schriften, Vol. II., p. 271). '/|- Cf. Tennyson's Maud: Part I., vi. and xiii. Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have...Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizeu hissing in war on his own hearthstone? given elements in the Divine order of the universe."... | |
| Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1915 - 422 strani
...there is no call on patriotism ; and we can imagine him echoing Tennyson's words, and asking : — " Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? We have made them a curse .... " Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, " When the poor are hovell'd and... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1918 - 136 strani
...of the Hebrew seer : Repent ! God's kingdom draweth near ! 1852. JG WHITTIER. IS IT PEACE OR WAR ? WHY do they prate of the blessings of Peace ? we have made them a curse, [own ; Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain,... | |
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