 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...  The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 4621811Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...Where glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. 70 They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and...fields great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave 75 Peaceable nations, neighb'ring... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...Where glory is false glory, attributed To 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 battels win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...folly was meditated and committed. The path of the fanatical warriors They err, who count it glorioua to subdue By conquest far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assaults : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...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 overrun • Large countries, and in field great battles win. Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Where glory is false glory, attributed To 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, 56 disprais'd] Tickell and Fenton corruptly read ' despised,' after Tonson's... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1839 - 754 pages
...those works, the remains of which the world has since been proud to own. ,'$ FRANCE. 143 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 cities by assaults: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1840 - 734 pages
...the destruction of those works, the remains of which the world has since been proud to own. 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 cities by assaults : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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 overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...; Where glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. They err, inherits here ; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those in field great battles win. Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 206 pages
...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 field great battles win, Great cities by assault ; what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,... | |
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