 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 332 页
...from man as 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 Panshanger.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 336 页
...from man as 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 lie not been nearly related to the Whig house of 1'anshanger.... | |
 | James William Massie - 1854 - 116 页
...the English Government in her colonies, or in Ireland itself? War is no plaything for nations; and it is " a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." It is in no man's power to calculate what the issues of it will be. The men who are sent out to the... | |
 | 1904 - 390 页
...Liang Cheng, who will respond to the toast : THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS OF THE DUTCH WITH OTHER NATIONS. "War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." . ADDRESS OF SIR CHENTUNG LIANG CHENG. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Holland Society:... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 页
...behind Is not to die. NOTE. — See page 101 for the discussion of this sentence. 134 — 26. But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Which is in the objective after at. If, understood, is the connective ; were wise is the predicate... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 页
...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations woiild do -well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and... | |
 | 1906 - 810 页
...unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.2 S, BUTLER, Speeches in the Rump Parliament War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at, COWPER, The Task : The Winter Morning Walk, lines 187, 188 1War, war is still the cry, "war even to... | |
 | Walter Walsh - 1906 - 488 页
...be destroyed but not regulated. Cowper saw where the power to destroy it resided, saying, But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. War demoralizes the politician by putting into his hands the godlike power of life and death, mere... | |
 | John Fyvie - 1909 - 418 页
...the producing elegant compositions, to enlighten the mind, amuse the fancy, and improve the heart. ' War is a game which, were their subjects wise. Kings would not play at.' " Thank you ! Mr Cowper." Whether Warner, when he wrote this, was inebriated with the exuberance of... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
