 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...chariot stood Unstain'd with human blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings >at still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. Or these two stanzas : The oracles are dumb ; No voice, or hideous hum, Rum through the arched roof... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...ehariot stood, Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 60 v. But peaeeful was the night, Wherein the Prinee of Light 44. so near, ie he being so near. 45.... | |
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1859 - 98 pages
...chariot stood, Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.'* But a still nobler peace Christ came to purchase and secure. He came to " break down the middle wall... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1859 - 264 pages
...employed of that which felt awe ; it is only employed now of that which inspires it. The kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. AWKWARD. In its present signification, unhandy, ungainly,... | |
 | William Sidney Walker - 1860 - 374 pages
...Before the dread Jehovah, God of hosts." Milton, Hymn of the Nativity, St. iv., — " And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by." Dryden, Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2, — " I love you, brother, with that awful love I bear to heaven,... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1860 - 586 pages
...chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye. As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But the stage had been preparing long before—the level ground on which Пе was to stand, so as to... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...world around : Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...chariot stood, Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by." — Milton't Ode on the Nativity. 7. In blank verse, broken verses are often introduced, especially... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...chariot stood unstained with hostile blood ; the trumpet spake not to the arme"d throng; and kings sat still with awful eye, as if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, wherein the Prince of light his reign of peace upon the earth began : the... | |
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No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely... 
