 | John Hobart Caunter - 1814 - 244 sider
...now pends o'er his devoted head. REFLECTIONS ON BATTLE. [Written early in the year 1811.] " But War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, " Kings would not play at."— COWTER. DREAB was the day, the lightening glar'd, From far the mutt'ring thunder 's heard, And Heav'n's... | |
 | 1814 - 678 sider
...have attained, had she been nllgwed, after tho revolution, to enjoy an uninterrupted peace ! But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Kations would do well * Tillies, however, were not the only grievance the cultivators of the soil had... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 314 sider
...this I"1 word remind the reader of Cowper, one of the most excellent, poetical, and miserable of men ! War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do welt T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | 1816 - 802 sider
...better employment of an interval of peace than in inculcate and apprehend (lie true character of war —a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. The Gnat Victory was an offspring of Mi. Souther's Muse in her juvenile days, and then published in... | |
 | Peace Society (London, England) - 1817 - 760 sider
...difficulty was to get at their ears. However, he would remind them of the lines of one of their poets, — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not pla\ at." This was a time of peace; yet this country had a standing army of considerable numerical... | |
 | 1818 - 510 sider
...as on an individual, that this happy change will beeffected. Is not the poett correct in asserting, that " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at?" That war is lawful in certain cases, has been generally admit• Eiod. i«iv. 23, 24. + Cowper. ted.... | |
 | 1822 - 550 sider
...and we apprehend such proof cannot •be found. We agree with Cowper, as quoted by our author— " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." We bow to the Scripture declaration, that wars and fightings proceed from the lusts which are in our... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1822 - 278 sider
...risk, — and feel, and suffer less, And see not what they cause of vice, and deep distress. XCIV. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Suffer me, again, Reader! to quote a poet whom I prize; Nor fancy such a repetition vain. Of pride... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 sider
...hones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | 1823 - 602 sider
...from Cowper, is a text which would furnish a still more ample commentary than he founds upon it : ' War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.' We shall not enter further into the argument of the leading poem. We applaud the Author's spirit and... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
