 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgaged states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt;...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide: A frame... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...War's unequal game, &$ Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgaged states their grandsires' wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt;...Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey 190X0 rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his... | |
 | François Xavier Burque - Physicians - 1907 - 388 pages
...the satire embraced in the following Unes of Dr Johnson : " That mortgag'd states their grand sires regret From age to age, in everlasting debt ; Wreaths, which at last the dear — bought right convey To rust on medals or on stones decay." The humblest patriot is now afforded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...unequal game, 185 Where wasted nations raise a single name; ' And mortgag'd states their grandsires' wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt;...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. 190 On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish CHARLES decide;... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name ; And mortgag'd states their grandsires' wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. 190 On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide.... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...game, JWhere wasted nations raise a single name ; And mortgag'd states their grandsires' wreaths " From age to age in everlasting debt,; Wreaths which...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles 2 decide. A... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgag'd states their grandsires' iry strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings,...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...unequal game, 185 Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgaged states their grandsires' 190 On what foundations stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...the general and the particular statements are subtly maneuvered. One might compare a climax such as Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay with the conclusion of the story of "Swedish Charles": His fall was destined to a barren strand, A... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgaged states their grandsires' wreaths regret^ From age to age in everlasting debt...right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay. On what foundations stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame... | |
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This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires... 
