 God's trophies, and His work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath: yet much remains To conquer still; Peace hath her victories No less renowned than War:...  The Railway Conductor - Page 451917Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 376 pages
...Worcester's laureat wreath. Yet much remains To conquer still ; peace hath her victories w No less renown'd than war : new foes arise Threatening to bind our...paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. XVII. TO SIR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER* VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...peace has her victories No less than those of war. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls in secular chains : Help us to save free conscience from...paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. " It was, as before stated, in the year 1654 that the "Second Defence of the English People" was published,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Suffrage - 1866 - 284 pages
...Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth his glorious way has ploughVI," might yet " Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw." A pursuit of freedom surely for many a weary hour; through all changes of times and circumstances,... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...thy praises loud, And Worcester's lauréat wreath. Yet much rcmair.s To conquer still ; peace hath her victories No less renowned than war: new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chain* Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw TO... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...freedom to preach. "Peace hath her victories /No less renown'd than war," he eloquently reminds him: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw. The indignant eloquence of "On the Late Massacre in Piemont" has a fine Miltonic ring and shows how... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 309 pages
...Westminster Assembly, and exhorted Cromwell, his campaigns behind him, to reap the fruits of his victories: "Help us to save free Conscience from the paw / Of hireling wolves whose Gospel is their maw." All of Milton's political allegiances were directed to this end; he supported those policies, leaders,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...old man eloquent; — (1. 1—8) GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV; OBS To the Lord General Cromwell 123 peace hath were horrifying. (1. 28-31) 23 How had I come to...like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have (1. 10-14) FaBoPV; NAEL-1; NoP; OBS; Son; TrGrPo When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 124 When I consider... | |
 | Nigel Smith - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 452 pages
...reiterate in already well-known Miltonic language the need to escape from all forms of bondage and custom: new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with...paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw. (1l.11-14)'1 Vane is imaged as a senator, sagely determining courses for peace and war, making the... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...And Worcester's209 laureate wreath: yet much remains To conquer still; Peace hath her victories 10 No less renowned than War: new foes arise, Threatening...us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves,210 whose Gospel is their maw. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 2" Vane, young in years, but in... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath: yet much remains To conquer still; Peace hath her victories No less renowned than War: new foes...hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw. JOHN MILTON The Soldier Yes. Why do we all, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless Our redcoats, our tars? Both... | |
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