 | 1875 - 652 strani
...taken an especial interest. I will illustrated my meaning by quoting a few wellknown lines ; — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts. " Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sotinds grow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 strani
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? V/ere half the power, that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1869 - 128 strani
...from error, There were no need of arsenals uor forts : The warrior's name would be a name aborred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against...wear for evermore the curse of Cain !" LONGFELLOW. The bishops of Durham were princes and warriors rather than overseers of Christ's church ; and even... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870 - 404 strani
...kings would not play at." Longfellow, with even still greater poetic fullness and force, has said — "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. See " Pulpit and its Handmaids," present number, p. 188. " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 556 strani
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred, And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 554 strani
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : " The warrior's nnme would he a name abhorred, And even,' nation that should lift again... | |
 | 1906 - 1232 strani
...Longfellow's famous poem. The most powerful stanza in that great poem is certainly this : "Were hall the power that fills the world with terror, Were half...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." The same thought was expressed by our most influential educational reformer of the last... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 strani
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation, that should... | |
 | 1879 - 1036 strani
...on camps and courts, Gi»en to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Should wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! " Jonson wrote some lines about his first daughter, who... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1870 - 332 strani
...content to reason with Longfellow : 'Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were halt the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
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Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts... 
