 | James Anson Farrer - 1919 - 256 lapas
...were inscribed : ' We bow our heads before Thee ; and we laud And magnify Thy name, Almighty God ! But Thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man— arrayed for mutual slaughter : Yea, Carnage is Thy daughter.' A generation brought up with so exalted... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1922 - 510 lapas
...assiduous cultivation of military virtues." His philosophic attribution to the Deity of war as a method — But Thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is Man — arrayed for mutual slaughter — — Yea, Carnage is Thy Daughter ! I might have been deemed more... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 396 lapas
...The Excursion not being one of the mighty masters of song; still, it contains some tremendous lines: But Thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent Is man — arrayed for mutual slaughter — Yea — Carnage is Thy daughter. It seemed natural to Wordsworth... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 lapas
...Wordsworth says in his " Thanksgiving Ode for the Battle of Waterloo," that " Carnage is God's daughter." " But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter ; Yea, Carnage is thy daughter." How poor and wilful, how presumptuous,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 134 lapas
...thereby subjected himself to the scoffs of a late noble wit. He is addressing the Deity himself: — " But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter : Yea, Carnage is thy daughter." Mr. Wordsworth is a fine poet and a philosophical... | |
 | Peter Partner - 1998 - 416 lapas
...martial service disapprove. He guides the pestilence - the cloud Of locusts travels on his breath . . . But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is Man - arrayed for mutual slaughter, - Yea, carnage is thy daughter! Not surprisingly, Wordsworth subsequently... | |
 | Brook Thomas - 1998 - 342 lapas
...instrument of God's vengeance upon France, so is France the instrument of God's vengeance upon Britain. But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is Man-arrayed for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is thy daughter! (279-282) This is a logical if abhorrent... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 lapas
...battle, as Wordsworth knew when he shocked a generation of admirers with his paean to the "Almighty God": But Thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent Is Man—arrayed for mutual slaughter, —Yea, Carnage is thy daughter. 2 The anti-Napoleonic "Ode: 1815"... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 lapas
...'Ode: 1815' made many tremble, not least for the lines on the deity which Wordsworth advisedly cut: But Thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is thy daughter But these lines of 1816 are not, it seems... | |
 | 1900 - 660 lapas
...the New, reminds one of Wordsworth's lines, as originally printed in the Thanksgiving Ode,' 1816 :— But Thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is Man — arrayed for mutual slaughter — Yea, Carnage is Thy daughter ! These lines were in part suppressed... | |
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But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is Man — arrayed for mutual slaughter, . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter... 
