 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...game. The queen only laughed, and expressed sentiments which have been happily rendered by our poet Cowper: " War is a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at." Nevertheless, in a case like the present, we give leave even to subjects to play at it, as the result... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 562 pages
...Part I. 8vo. pp. 533. London. 1810. Lloyd. "VTO text in Cowper has been more popular than that which War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. In Switzerland a game has lately been made of war, (Das Kriegspiel,) which is played with figures upon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 568 pages
...533. London. 1810. Lloyd. "JVTO text in Cowper has been more popular than that which -*• ' says, . . War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not pla^ at. In Switzerland a game has lately been made of war, (Das Kriegspiel,) which is played with... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Ibid. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise. Kings should not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well s See Kircher's description of the Grotto of Antiparos, in Goldsmith's Nat. vol.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...WAR. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...WAR. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
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War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their... 
