 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight: when such as these "* Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Tune was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
 | William Cowper - 1877 - 104 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should right ; when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause 1 Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight, — when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight ;* when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
 | 1880 - 446 σελίδες
...resource for the defense of the nation and demanded the sternest punishment of those who had dared "to lay their hand upon the ark "Of her magnificent and awful cause." As a Senator his vote was recorded for every important war measure, relating to the revenues,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight, — when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough 462 THE ENGLISH POETS. In every clime, and travel... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, love when they should fight, — when such as these Presume n sat With loose-Hung coat and high cocked hat ; The well-c cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight; when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause? Cowper has paraphrased an idea of Dryden which is also applicable to cats, if we may judge by... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight, — when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 σελίδες
...sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight, — when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That... | |
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With odours, and as profligate as sweet ; Who sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight; when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause... 
