 | 1887 - 610 sider
...this respect, and has ventured to put his name to these stupendous lines : — ' God's most perfect instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; Yea, Carnage is God's daughter.' It would be difficult to imagine anything more shocking and more immoral than this.... | |
 | 1816 - 660 sider
...before thee, and we laud And magnify thy name,, Almighty God! But thy most dreaded instrument In wrting out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter,— Yea, Carnage is thy daughter !' p. 17. "What strange and revolting phraseology, to use the mildest term, is this ! How utterly at... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 sider
...We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is Man —...for mutual slaughter, . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter ! Thou cloth'st the wicked in their dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 204 sider
...page 115, line 14. " Carnage" (so Wordsworth tells you) " is God's daughter." " But thy* most dreaded instrument " In working out a pure intent, " Is man...mutual slaughter ; " Yea, Carnage is thy daughter !" WORDSWORTH'S Thanksgiving Ode. Note 3, page 120, line 8. Was printed Grove, although his name was... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 sider
...syllahle, which gives it a very wild and peculiar effect. t '• Hut Mi/11 mostdreadful instrument " sn working out a pure intent, "Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; " Yea, Carnage is thy daug/*tr.'" WORDSWORTH'S T/anksgMng Ode. y To wit, tha Deity's: this is perhaps as pretty a pedigree... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 sider
...386, stanza ix. « Carnage, (so Wordsworth tells you) is God's danghter: etc. But tlty ' most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; Yea, carnage is tliy daughter! WORDSWORTH'S, Thanksgiving Odc. 1 To »ii. Ihr Diiiy'1i Ihiiii pirfaapi H preny » pedigree... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 sider
...We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is Man —...for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is thy daughter ! Thou cloth'st the wicked in their dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 512 sider
...Thanksgiving Ode for the Battle of Waterloo," that " Carnage is God's daughter." " But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter ; Yeaf Carnage is thy daughter." How poor and wilful, how presumptuous, and at the same time misgiving,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 148 sider
...to the scoffs of a late noble wit. He is addressing the Deity himself : — " But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man,...mutual slaughter : Yea, Carnage is thy daughter." Mr. Wordsworth is a fine poet and a philosophical thinker, in spite of his having here paid a tremendous... | |
 | 1898 - 712 sider
...reference to Carnage was duo to Byron's use, or misuse, of the passage. JAJ HOUSDEN. But thy most dreadful instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed...for mutual slaughter : Yea, Carnage is thy daughter. Alas ! that I so lately knew theo. I should think that the line TS is in search of would be the following... | |
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God ! But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent. Is man — arrayed for mutual slaughter, — . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter... 
