 | 1799 - 614 pages
...our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which \Ve join no feeling and attach no form, » As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang ; as if the wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to heaven,... | |
 | Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no fotm, As if" the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang ; as if the wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to heaven,... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 614 pages
...form, As if the foldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike fra.rne Were gor'd without a pang: as if the wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pafs'd off to heaven, tranflatcd and not kill'd; • As tho' he had no wife to pine for him, No God... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1799 - 614 pages
...Like mere abftraftions, empty founds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As it the foldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch* Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pafs'd off to heaven,... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 664 pages
...o'er our tongue*. Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven,... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 656 pages
...o'er our tongue* Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form, As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang : as if the wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven,... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 654 pages
...Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven, translated and not kill'd ; As tho' lie had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! — Therefore evil day* Are coming on us, O my countrymen ! And what if all-avenging Providence,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...' , • As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang ; as if the wretch, Who fell in battle,...he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! Therefore, evil days Are coming on us, O' my countrymen ! And what if all-avenging Providence, Strong... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form ! p As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang ; as if the wretch, Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1819 - 488 pages
...our tongues. Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to whichj We join no feeling and attach no form ! As if the soldier died without a wound ; As if the...bloody deeds, Pass'd off to heaven, translated, and not killed ; — As though he had no wife to pine for him — No God to judge him ! Therefore, evil days... | |
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And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame... 
