 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...chariot stood, Unstain.d with hostile blood : The trumpet spake not to the armed throng: And kings sate still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was nigh. The following stanza is not quite so unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...high up liun;, The hooked chariot stood, Unstain'd with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to'the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by v. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began;... | |
 | Anthony Freston - Sermons - 1809 - 272 pages
...or battles sound " Was heard the world around : " The idle spear arid shield were high up-hung ; " The hooked chariot stood, " Unstain'd with hostile...still with awful eye, " As if they surely knew their sov'reiga Lord was nigh." Hymn on the Nativity. F 2 unsparing unsparing and savage cruelty, who had... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood;...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began:... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood;...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began:... | |
 | England - 1837 - 886 pages
...chariot stood. Unstained with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings stood still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...war, nor battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood : The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sate still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was nigh. The following stanza is not quite so unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung, 55 The hooked chariot stood, Unstain'd with hostile blood,...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. 60 V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace... | |
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began... 
