...country would this sum have done had it been saved and rightly employed.* Truly has Cowper said, " That war is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." Longfellow, with even still greater poetic fullness and force, has said — "Were half the...

...agony Of our fierce doings !" COLERIDGE: "FEARS IN SOLITUDE.' Unb (Dihcr $3oems. BY WILLIAM HOWITT. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at."— COVVPER'S "TASK." " The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their...

...power of playing at it, will play at it, unless they can be amused in some other way. Sir Arthur. " War is a game which, were their subjects wise• Kings would not play at." Milverton. There is something in what Ellesmere says, only I should make the important alteration...

...power of playing at it, will play at it, unless they can be interested in some other way. Sir Arthur. " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Milverton. There is something in what Ellesmere says ; only I should make the important alteration...

...of playing at it, will play at it, unless they can be interested in some other way. Sir A rthur. '' War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Milverton. There is something in what Ellesmere says ; only I should make the important alteration...

...war. That was an instance in which the necessities of one man overrode the wishes of the whole people. "War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." The PRESIDENT (Sir Johu Coleridge) said the discussion from the beginning to the end had...

...rev. WEST VIEW OF Low EMBATTLED TOWER. From a Photograph by M. Brocklehurst in 1852. CHAPTER VIII. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." DURING the civil wars in the following reign of Stephen, Winchcombe suffered severely ; for,...

...hunger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had said, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of...

...< ) :> : To crush each other into death's dark deep ? It were no answer here to say with Cowper, " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." These are no kings' subjects ! These are the sovereign people, each of whom, Reckons himself...

...battle no more. He was a thinker — was he also, in some measure, a republican ? — who said that war is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. Going by steam to-day to Auteuil, how pretty are the coquelicots des champs, the single red...