 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...How was I shock'd to think the hero's trade Of such materials fame and triumph made ! One to destroy, is murder by the law ; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe: To murder thousands, takes a specious name, " War's glorious art," and gives immortal fame. How guilty these!... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 360 pages
...When men extol a wild destroyer's name, Earth's builder and preserver they blaspheme. One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. When, after battle,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1854 - 382 pages
...When men extol a wild destroyer's name, Earth's builder and preserver they blaspheme. One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. When, after battle,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1856 - 468 pages
...provinces, escapes. Nor is it well, nor can it come to good, 732-735. She is rigid, Ac.: " Ono to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe. To murder thousands takes a specious name. 1 ' Young. Satire vll. " Where little villains must submit to fate,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1858 - 418 pages
...When men extol a wild destroyer's name, Earth's builder and preserver they blaspheme. One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. When, after battle,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1859 - 376 pages
...When men extol a wild destroyer's name, Earth's builder and preserver they blaspheme. One to destroy, is murder by the law ; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. When, after battle,... | |
 | works of the best authors - 1860 - 260 pages
...wise with speed ; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Ibid. Satire n. Lines 282, 283. One to destroy, is murder by the law ; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Ibid. Satire rn. Lines... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...its boast. One murder made a villain ; Millions a hero. DR. PORTEUS.—Poem on Death. One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name. War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. YODNO.—Love of Fame,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1867 - 732 pages
...slaughter of tens of thousands, some with tolerance, and some even with approval? • ‘One to destroy, is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.' Such is the result... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 806 pages
...Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. Satire vi. Line 208. One to destroy is murder by the law ; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Satire vii. Line 55.... | |
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