 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - Poetry - 1849 - 672 pages
...imag-e of fiiid cut in ebony." BOOK ii.] THE TASK. 183 Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 15 Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ;... | |
 | Spring flowers - 1849
...having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ;... | |
 | clark, austin and co. - 1850
...having power T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. % Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ;... | |
 | John Brown, Jesus Christ - 1850
...same spirit to be traced even in our own times, both in public transactions and in private lite. " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other...— mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one."» In opposition to this righteousness of... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1850 - 130 pages
...jests. 9 NOTE 4. PAOB 136. Unfriendly hills no longer interpose As stubborn walls to geographic foes. " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one." NOTE 5. PAGE 128. Ao pitying nymphs had gathered... | |
 | George Croly - Poetry - 1850 - 395 pages
...having power T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys;... | |
 | Daniel Noyes Haskell - 1851 - 43 pages
...before the establishment of the modern means of communication that Cowper penned his familiar lines : " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." The writer occupied a seat between a French... | |
 | Christopher Newman Hall - 1851
...myriads of men have been led to mutual butchery, who might have lived and loved as brethren ! — " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into one !" What multitudes of our brothers and sisters... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1852 - 191 pages
...said it is dark ; let but one drop of blood be spilt upon the canvass, and it becomes ' one red.' " ' Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, which had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.' " But you and my other South Carolina friends... | |
 | James Wallis, David King - 1852
...mortal eye can separate them, or mark where one commences and another ends. And as upon these maps — " Lands intersected by a narrow frith, Abhor each other : Mountains interposed make enemies of nations, Who had else, like kindred drops, been mingled into one ;" so these shades of opinion, formalities... | |
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