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" Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. "
Moral and Sacred Poetry - Page 228
by Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 296 pages
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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Ahhor each other. Mountains interpos'd.. Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 8. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be doplor'd, As human...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1833 - 684 pages
...oarrow, selfish policy regulated the intercourse of nations. Too long have " Mountain's inteposcd, Mnde enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops been mingled into one." Nation has risen up against nation, there have been " wars and rumors of wars," and the history of...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed...destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored, VOL. II. D As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. WILLIAM COWPER And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground,...
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English Literature

Herbert Bates - 1918 - 640 pages
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother and destroys; And worse than all, and most to be deplored . . . Chains him and tasks him, and exacts his sweat •...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. It is significant that Cowper loved the Iliad enough to translate it with Greek simplicity. One should...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith ls e second and concluding page; crushed it within his...rubbed and smoothed one part against the other ; 21 As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes,...
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Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and Prose

Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations,...
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Mediation of the Honduran-Guatemalan Boundary Question: Held Under the Good ...

United States. Department of State - 1919 - 706 pages
...boundaries each case should be treated upon its own merits. There was a time when, in Cowper's words: " Mountains interposed " Make enemies of nations who...else " Like kindred drops been mingled Into one." And yet the passes of the Alps refute the poet's statement. Their uniting function eventually overcame...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored a owledge and wait kis sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast....
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...IL 7. 10 Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky. CAMPBELL — Pleasures of Hope. Pt. IL 4. 11 eep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear And summon him to marriage. Merchant of Ven minglrd into one. COWPER— The Task. Bk. II. L. 17. 12 To make a mountain of a mole-hill. HENRY ELLIS...
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