| 1837 - 898 ページ
...chariot stood, Unstained with hostile bloud, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings stood still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their...earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly (lie waters kist, Whispering new joy.s to the mild ocean, Who now hath (|uitc forgot to rave, While... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 380 ページ
...not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the...winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 ページ
...She alone, Medea, slept not."* And Milton, picturing the night on which the Saviour was born :— " But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...peace upon the earth began; The winds, with wonder whist,t Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot... | |
| 1840 - 528 ページ
...not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the...: The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kiss'd, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now have quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 ページ
...not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the...The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean; Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm... | |
| Alexander William C. Lindsay (25th earl of Crawford.) - 1841 - 152 ページ
...chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood, The trumpet spoke not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by." —This is no mere figure of poetry. From whatever source it may have arisen, a strange and thrilling... | |
| 1841 - 598 ページ
...heard the world around ; No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran; But peaceful was the night, In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In social circle sat; while all around, The... | |
| John Milton - 1842 - 980 ページ
...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. ы But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 ページ
...the clouds In dreadful tumult swell'd, surge above surge, Burst into chaos, with tremendous roar. 1 But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light...winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1843 - 720 ページ
...not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eve, As if they surely knew their sov'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the...Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth Iwgan : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kiss'd, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean,... | |
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