 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy' of fame. They err who count it glorious to subdue ji By conquest far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battels win, Great cities by assault i what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter,... | |
 | 1811 - 538 pages
...expend our marble on war-ministers, and their military muiliinei, " worthies," according 10 tlie poet, Who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault ; while we have little to bestow on renown acquired,... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...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 conquest far and wide to over-run Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...man, and divulges him through heaven To all his angels, who with true applause Recount his praises. 2. They err who count it glorious, to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault ; what do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...; Where glory is disc glory attributed To things not glorious, men not worth* of fame. JO Тику err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in tield great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, bum,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...height of his power ; and Pompey had lost his life in the same pursuit of glory. CA LTO N . Ver. 71. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, &c.] Here might be an allusion intended to LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH, who at this time began to disturb... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 620 pages
...to the Saviour, when Satan would urge the persevering pursuit of martial fame ? (P. R^ iii. 71.) " They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battels win. But if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attain'd Without... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...ascribes to the Saviour, when Satan would urge the persevering pursuit of martial fame ? (PR iii. 71.) " They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battels win. But if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attain'd Without... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1828 - 250 pages
...desolate wilderness ;" and iliatpoet who drank deepest of the sacred stream, lias the following lines : " They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun planned by amhition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation ? the means, are the sacrifice... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...strength more nimbly, or become the delivery more gracefully, or employ all more virtuously. Sidney. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to owr-run Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. Milton's Paradise... | |
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Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations... 
