 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 страници
...! Plead still against the banner of blood ! Strive still against the reign of terror ! Aim still " By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear ! " , May a gallant and generous people second you, and the Power which preserved Washington sustain... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 262 страници
...Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed and equity restored : 22O Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unware 225 Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving By words... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 640 страници
...with st Flar To L 215— «8. CHAP. XXvIL Till truth were fceed, and equity restoced ; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...willing hearts, , And make persuasion do the work of fear."24 From first to last, Jesus refused to .exercise His supernatural power to establish His kingdom... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 628 страници
...violence and proud tyrannic power, CHAP, xxvii. Till truth were freed, and equity restored ; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, !> Par.Regataed, And make persuasion do the work of fear."24 i. 21 r— -J23. ' From first to last,... | |
 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 страници
...it more humane, more heav'nly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make perswasion do the work of fear; At least to try, and teach the erring Soul Not wilfully mis-doing, but unware 225 Misled; the stubborn onely to subdue. These growing thoughts my Mother soon perceiving By words... | |
 | 1909 - 502 страници
...earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored : Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...misdoing, but unware Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving, By words at times cast forth, inly rejoiced, And... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 страници
...Temple, his early aspirations when "victorious deeds / Flam'd in my heart, heroic acts"; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make perswasion do the work of fear; At least to try ... Then he recalls how his mother had "inly rejoyc'd"... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - 1988 - 188 страници
...establish equity on Earth—and he also remembers the way in which he will effect these ends: Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. (1.221-23) The Son in this poem (by contrast to the Son in Paradise Lost] will use persuasion as his... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 страници
...earth Brute violence and proud tyrannic pow'r, Till truth were freed, and equity restored; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. (I. 215-23) The lines are notable for being made of whole cloth, without basis in the Gospels. This... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 страници
...Jirsl By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make perswasion do the work of fear; At leas! to try, and teach the erring Soul Not wilfully mis'doing, but unware Misled: the Stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my Mother soon perceiving By words at times cast forth inly rejoycd, And said... | |
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Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear... 
