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" They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring... "
Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ... - Page 110
by John Milton - 1785
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Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and Prose

Elva Sophronia Smith - Patriotic poetry - 1919 - 326 pages
...GLORY Extract from Paradise Regained JOHN MILTON THEY err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. What do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations,...
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The Sonnets of Milton: With Introduction & Notes

John Milton - 1921 - 216 pages
...war. In Paradise Regained he afterwards wrote : They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win. Great cities by assault. . . . But, if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attained,...
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The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 1

John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 442 pages
...hast thou seen my servant Job ? Famous he was in Heaven, on Earth less known ; \Vhere glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. They err who count it glorious to subdue By Conquest far and wide, to over-run Large Countries, and in field great Battles win, Great...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 500 pages
...To things not glorious, men not worthy of feme. They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. What do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations,...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...thee, has! thou seen my servant Job? Famous he was in Heaven, on Earth less known; Where glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. They err who count it glorious to subdue By Conqueflfar and wide, to overrun Large Countries, and in feld great Battels win, Great Cities...
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Education as and for Legitimacy: Developments in West Indian Education ...

M.K. Bacchus - Education - 1994 - 360 pages
...1875-76 284 This page intentionally left blank They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. What do these worthies But rob and spoil, bum, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring...
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Milton and Republicanism

David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...reconciled, and hence also to the hopes of 1649 53: They err who glorious count it to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations,...
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Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India

Vincent Arthur Smith - 1997 - 290 pages
...Milton offers a strikingly close parallel: — ' They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. • . . But, if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attained,...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. 70 They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations,...
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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117: 2001 Lectures

Business & Economics - 2002 - 566 pages
...rejection of the power. wealth. and glory of empire: They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide. to overrun Large countries. and in field great battles win. Great cities by assault: what do these worthies. But rob and spoil. burn. slaughter. and enslave Peaceable nations....
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