 When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.  Personal and literary - Page 142by William Ewart Gladstone - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...cheating the sick of a few last gasps, as he sils To pestle a poison'd poison behind hiscrimson lights. When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial...thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones." However, the Poet has hope even in these wicked wights : ' ' For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...your correspondents explain to a puzzled family the following allusions of the Poet Laureate 1 — " When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones." Maud, 1 pt. i. 12. "Walk all day like the sultan... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...behind bis crimson lights. When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-ilammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is It peace or...a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. For I trust If an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the bill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...cheating the sick of a few last gasps, as he sits To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson lights. 'When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial...a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...cheating the sick of a few last gasps, as he sits To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson 12. When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial...a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. 13. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...the sick of a few last gasps, as he sits To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson lights. 12. When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial...a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. 18. For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...cheating the sick of a few last gasps, as he sits To pestle a poison'd poison bchind his crimson lights. "When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial...thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones." After this furious protest against the hollowness of the age, beside which all the reformers are pale,... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 776 pages
...the sick of a few last gasps, as he sitä To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson lights. " When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial...a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones. " For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from... | |
 | 1855 - 972 pages
...tlie alleged evils how great soever, what is the remedy proposed by these great moral reformers? Whv, 'war! loud war, by land and by sea; war with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.' One would like to know something of the matins operandi of this wonderful panacea for the woes and... | |
 | 1855 - 682 pages
...few last gasps, as he ßits To pcatie a poieon'd poison behind his crimson lights. " When a Memmonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's hones, Is it peace or war ? belter, war ! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles,... | |
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