 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - Страниц: 332
...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 not play at.' But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - Страниц: 336
...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 not play at." But Cowper would not have said this, had lie not been nearly related to the Whig house of... | |
 | John Jordan - 1857 - Страниц: 500
...the glory of the king, while it impoverished the people, and made good the saying of the dramatist, War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. To gratify his warlike ambition, and lust of conquest, Edward the Third, and his far-famed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1860 - Страниц: 328
...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 not play at." But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 676
...horror and the consequences of war are contrary to the spirit of the Christian religion, and that " war is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." In the Church at the present time, we sorely want men of varied qualifications to lead the... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1863 - Страниц: 546
...arid Cowper was the last, who followed it out with a dash of radicalism in the sentiment : — " But war is a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." ~~ ThtrttTalogue I have alluded to is an edifying commentary upon the light causes and grave... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - Страниц: 358
...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 not play at." But Cowper would not have said this had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger.... | |
 | John Watson Dalby - 1866 - Страниц: 202
...May heaven to these sad cries its ear incline, And make the peoples wiser than the throne !* • " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." CowPKE. SONNET, ON REARING THE REV. WH BROOKFIELD, MA, AT WHITEHALL CHAPEL, SUNDAY, JUNE... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 630
...democracy," is said to be a favourite maxim with General Moltke. Cowper spoke truly when he said — " War is a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at." And their subjects are gaining a little wisdom by bitter experience since Cowper wrote. They... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1869 - Страниц: 320
...neighbourhood of London Bridge and the Exchange. Fifty years ago a poet of our own observed — • "War is 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... | |
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War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
