 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...The hooked 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
...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;... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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:... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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:... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...The hooked 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 sovrain Lord was nigh. The following stanza is not quite so unexceptionable and pure; but its errors... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...The hooked 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...stood " Unstain'd with human 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 nigh." Nor is the poetry of the stanza immediately following, an expression or two excepted, unworthy... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...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. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
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No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely... 
