THE power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and circumscribed in time and space ; But who the limits of that power shall trace Which a brave People into light can bring Or hide, at will, — for freedom combating By just revenge inflamed... The Edinburgh Review - Page 5441840Full view - About this book
| Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1914 - 142 pages
...Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. 40 Sm FH DOYLE. THE POWER OF ARMIES THE power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...bring Or hide, at will, — for freedom combating 5 By just revenge inflamed ? No foot may chase, G2 No eye can follow, to a fatal place That power,... | |
| William Wordsworth - Patriotic poetry, English - 1915 - 152 pages
...external wealth : But from within proceeds a Nation's health. 35 [The Spirit of a brave People.] 1811. THE power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...— for freedom combating By just revenge inflamed ? No foot may chase, No eye can follow, to a fatal place That power, that spirit, whether on the wing... | |
| Sir Oliver Lodge - Forecasting - 1915 - 258 pages
...great, when exercised by a whole people for the right. As Wordsworth says, in a Sonnet of 1 8 1 1 : — The power of armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...— for freedom combating, By just revenge inflamed? WAR AS SUPPURATION War is not a healthy form of activity, it is a pathological symptom, a sign of disease... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1918 - 136 pages
...always lose : Though tyrant tyrant kill, The slayer liveth still. E. ELLIOTT. ' THE POWER OF ARMIES ' THE power of armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...— for freedom combating By just revenge inflamed ? No foot may chase, No eye can follow, to a fatal place That power, that spirit, whether on the wing... | |
| william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...The many-coloured images imprest Upon the bosom of a placid lake. [Composed 1811.— Published 1815.] But who the limits of that power shall trace Which...— for freedom combating By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chase, No eye can follow, to a fatal place That power, that spirit, whether on the wing... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 pages
...to be laid In some green island of the western main. (1811) "THE POWER OF ARMIES IS A VISIBLE THING" THE power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...— for freedom combating By just revenge inflamed ? No foot may chase, No eye can follow, to a fatal place That power, that spirit, whether on the wing... | |
| Literature - 1908 - 856 pages
...the Nations shall be great and free. He sums it all up in the last sonnet but one of the series: — The power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...— for freedom combating By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chaSe, No eye can follow, to a fatal place That power, that spirit, whether on the wing... | |
| Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 324 pages
...power, the attachment to land as the source of harmony, and the natural organicity of "the People." The power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...Which a brave People into light can bring Or hide, at will,—for freedom combatting By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chase. No eye can follow, to a... | |
| Timothy Clark - Art - 2000 - 322 pages
...the sublime. A sonnet of 1811 links the unseen presence and power of masses of people to the sublime: The power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal, and...in time and space; But who the limits of that power can trace Which a brave People into light can bring Or hide, at will - for freedom combating By just... | |
| Varadaraja V. Raman - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 398 pages
...assert their power and glory whenever an occasion arose. For they recognized, as Wordsworth said, that The power of Armies is a visible thing Formal, and circumscribed in time and place. 2. The dowry system such as came to be practiced in later times was not yet prevalent in the... | |
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