 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 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 would not play at. Nations would do well, T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 336 pages
...hunger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations, Cowper, about sixty years ago, had said, ' War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would...play at." But Cowper would not have said this, had lie not been nearly related to the Whig house of 1'anshanger. Every Whig thought it a duty occasionally... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 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 would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | James William Massie - War - 1854 - 116 pages
...English Government in her colonies, or in Ireland itself? War is no plaything for nations; and it is " a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." It is in no man's power to calculate what the issues of it will be. The men who are sent out to the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 135 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well, T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 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 would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 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 would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 376 pages
...to cleave down brothers and sons, and the whole array to butcher mankind. War is a horrid trade — a " game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." Yictory in war is a horrid victory; and its whole history is the darkest part of the record of the... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...bonea. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. Bnt war's hepherds, Nations would do well T extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 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 would 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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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
