 | 1795 - 432 páginas
...That strike my soul with horror but to name 'em. ADDISON. Cato, act ii. THEY err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide ; to overrun ....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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 páginas
...things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. They err wl'io count it glorious to fubdue By conqucft far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by aflault : what do thcfe worthies, But rob and fpoil, burn, daughter, and inflave Peaceable nations,... | |
 | Joseph Wilcocks - 1797 - 672 páginas
...which I have copied from Valerias Maximus t. * Where glory is falfc glory, — to fubdue By conqueft far and wide ; to over-run Large countries, and in field great battles win," Great cities by affault. What do thefe Worthies, But rob and fpoil, burn, flaughtcr, and inflavc Peaceable nations,... | |
 | 1803 - 250 páginas
...a fguirrej, and a king—Chnrfbill» CONQUEST. THEY err who count it glorious to fubdue By conqueft far and wide; to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Gre.R cities by aiTnult: what do thefe worthies But rob, and fpoi], burn, flaughter, and enflave Peaceable... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 páginas
...attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy' of fame, They err who count it glorious to subdue 71 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, slaughter, and inslave Peaceable nations,... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 230 páginas
...count it glorious to subdue 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, neighbr'ing or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than these their conqu'rors, who leave... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 páginas
...count it glorious to subdue 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, neighbr'ing or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than these their conqu'rors, who leave... | |
 | 1811 - 538 páginas
...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,... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 páginas
...fame in filence hid. Paradfi Loft 1. xl. I. 638. THEY err who count it glorious to fubdue By conqueft far and wide ; to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles wia, Great cities by aflault: what do thefe worthies 1 But rob, and fjpoil, burn, flaughter, and enflave... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 páginas
...things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. They err, who count it glorious to fubdue 71 By conqueft far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by aflault : What do thefe worthies, But rob and fpoil, burn, {laughter, and enflave 75 Ver. 69. Where... | |
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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... 
