 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 454 Seiten
...stars, it must, like the vapors of earth, pass away. Milton likens the contests of the Heptarchy to "the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air." * But God, and the exalted judgment of the Future, must regard all our bloody feuds in the same likeness,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 Seiten
...stars, it must, like the vapors of earth, pass away. Milton likens the contests of the Heptarchy to "the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air." 1 But God, and the exalted judgment of the Future, must regard all our bloody feuds in the same likeness,—finding... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 572 Seiten
...dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle...kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? BThe year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army against Kenwulf the Mercian for... | |
 | Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1881 - 484 Seiten
...promised not only to pilgrims, but also to merchants 1 " Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and f1ghting in the air ? " Milton, Hist. of England.— T. 2 Vita Offse II. 3 This remarkable charter,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1882 - 356 Seiten
...stars, it must, like the vapors of earth, pass away. Milton likens the contests of the Heptarchy to "the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air." 1 But God, and the exalted judgment of the Future, must regard all our bloody feuds in the same likeness,... | |
 | Sidney James Mark Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1136 Seiten
...in his ignorance of the real facts of the case only caricatures when he calls their mutual dealings "the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air." Strife and bloodshed were universal ; no kingdom escaped them ; even Christianity brought a sword;... | |
 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1254 Seiten
...in his ignorance of the real facts of the case only caricatures when he calls their mutual dealings "the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air." Strife and bloodshed were universal ; no kingdom escaped them ; even Christianity brought a sword;... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 554 Seiten
...dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle...kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? 9The year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army against Kenwulf the Mercian for... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 Seiten
...colonrs and shapes. The History of England. Book i. Snch hickerings to reconnt, met often in these onr writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the...of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air ? Book ic. EDWARD HYDE CLAKENDON. 1008-1074. He [Hampden] had a head to contrive, a tongne to persnade,... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - 1898 - 494 Seiten
...widely spread and always in action. Milton abandons the record, exclaiming: "Such bickerings to recount, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air ? " For indeed the state of all Europe was one of chronic warfare. The Romans had seldom been at peace,... | |
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Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? 
