 | William Cowper - 1800 - 420 pages
...bones. , 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 T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802
...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind thpr sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806
...bones. 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 hand.s Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807
...Cowper, now and then, suffered under a passing cloud of narrow prejudice. H« ha* said, that " War is a game, which, were their subjects Wise, Kings would not play at." I take for granted, he does not mean to allude merely to particular instances of a wanton exercise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 193 pages
...bones. 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 T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and buby... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811
...word remind the reader of Covvper, one of tlie most excellent, poetical, and miserable of men! War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny liamU Of heroes, w hose infirm and baby... | |
 | 1811
...people too often, like their rulers, are fond of war and are dazzled by it« false glitter. " But war's a game which were their subjects wise, " Kings would not play at."— Government are now openly by their agents purchasing guineas on the Exchange of Belfast. Will the English... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 212 pages
...bones. 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 T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813
...Cowper now and then suffered under a passing cloud of narrow prejudice. He has said, that " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." I take for granted, that he does not mean to allude merely to particular instances of a wanton exercise... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813
...Cowper now and then suffered under a passing cloud of narrow prejudice. He has said, that " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." I take for granted, that he does not mean to allude merely to particular instances of a wanton exercise... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
