 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pàgines
...or mollifie / It with thy Teares, or Sweat, or Bloud." More than two centuries later, Byron wrote, "Year after year they voted cent per cent / Blood,...sweat, and tear-wrung millions — why? — for rent!" In his 1888 play Smith, Scottish poet-playwright John Davidson wrote of "Blood-sweats and tears, and... | |
 | Sir Ivor Jennings - 1960 - 420 pàgines
...1841, see McCord, op. cit. chs. 11 and III. 5 Ibid. p. 129. Safe in their barns, these Sabine tellers sent Their brethren out to battle. Why? For rent !...year they voted cent, per cent. ; Blood, sweat and tear-rung millions, they swore they meant To die for England. Why then live? For rent ! And will they... | |
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See these inglorious Cincinnati swarm, Farmers of war, dictators of the farm; Their ploughshare was the sword in hireling hands, Their fields manured by gore of other lands; Safe in their barns, these Sabine tillers sent Their brethren out to battle—... 
