 | Patrick Delany - 1740 - 388 pages
...thee, my brother " Jonathan. Very delightful haft thou been " to me : Thy love to me was wonderful, <c pafling the love of women. How are the " mighty fallen^ and the weapons of war " perifhed ! " THE burfts of for row in this poem are fo ftrong, fo fudden, fo pathetick ! fo fhort, fo various, fo unconnected... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 pages
...fubjefts fortheharp. How beautifully does David lament the blood of the (lain on the mountains of Gilboa : how are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perifhed ! The caftle had been a handfome building, in a fquare, with two extremes placed at oppofite corners, with... | |
 | Patrick Delany - 1759 - 460 pages
...brother Jonathan. <c Very delightful haft thou been to me : Thy " love to me was wondetfu^ paffing the love " of women. How are the mighty fallen, and *' the weapons of war perifhed !" THE burfts of forrow in this poem are fo ftrong, fo fudden, fo pathetic ! fo fhort, fo various, fo unconnected... | |
 | William Russell - 1801 - 522 pages
...my brother ! very pleasant hast tbou " been unto me. Thy love for me was wonderful, passing tbe lave of " women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war " perished!"— 2. Sam. chap. i. ver. 17—27. 89. A fragment of one of her pieces, seemingly written... | |
 | William Sellon - 1805 - 262 pages
...jhield of Saul.—/ am dijtrejj'ed for thee, my brother Jonathan; thy love to me was wonderful, pajjing the love of women.—* How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perijhed! ^ CHAP. XXV. .m THE REIGN OF DAVID. Before T\AVID, who had been privately Chrift .*-' anointed... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pages
...my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. ... How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! And David commanded that the children of Judah should be taught to use the bow. ANNOTATIONS... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 430 pages
...my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! And David commanded that the children of Judah should be taught to use the bow. ANNOTATIONS... | |
 | 1825 - 512 pages
...(O Parker !) my brother, very pleasant hast thou been unto me, thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." " How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished !"* . * The render will, I hope, pardon this rhtpsody, they were both the warm friend* of... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 pages
...my 'brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!'" (2 Sam. i. 25—27.) The soldier finished his simple and heart- affecting tale, and we... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 392 pages
...thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." " How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" We shall forbear to expatiate upon the character of David, which, it must be confessed,... | |
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Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! 
