 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1826 - 846 pages
...and his son's embrace. Pint let him see his friends in battle slain. And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when, at length, the cruel war shall...Nor let him, then, enjoy supreme command, But fall inglorious by some hostile hand, And lie unburied in the common sand." The King appeared to be struck... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 612 pages
...from place to l>!ace, First lei him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease,...conditions may he buy his peace. Nor let him then enjny supreme command, But tiill untimely by Mime hostile hand; Acd lie unburieilon the barren sand.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Some years afterwards, " business," sajs Sprat, "passed ot' course into other hands ;" and Cowley... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 1142 pages
...two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. On hard conditions may lie buy his peace; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile band, And lie unburied in the common sand.' Dr. Welwood's Memoir t. 1 This passage, adopting a less... | |
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Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he... 
