 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pàgines
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred I And every nation that should lift again... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pàgines
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name'abhorred! And every natien that should lift again... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pàgines
...taken an especial interest. I will illustrated my meaning by quoting a few wellknown lines ; — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts. " Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sotinds grow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pàgines
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? V/ere half the power, that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pàgines
...fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. On helm and...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation, that should... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870 - 404 pàgines
...kings would not play at." Longfellow, with even still greater poetic fullness and force, has said — "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. See " Pulpit and its Handmaids," present number, p. 188. " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 556 pàgines
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred, And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 554 pàgines
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : " The warrior's nnme would he a name abhorred, And even,' nation that should lift again... | |
 | 1906 - 1232 pàgines
...Longfellow's famous poem. The most powerful stanza in that great poem is certainly this : "Were hall the power that fills the world with terror, Were half...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." The same thought was expressed by our most influential educational reformer of the last... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1870 - 332 pàgines
...content to reason with Longfellow : 'Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were halt the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts! 
