...No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around, The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. T. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace...

...the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked ehariot stood, Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 60 v. But peaeeful was the night, Wherein the Prinee of Light 44. so near, ie he being so near. 45....

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...hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the arniecl throng : And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The...

...to be often employed of that which felt awe ; it is only employed now of that which inspires it. The kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. AWKWARD. In its present signification, unhandy, ungainly,...

...The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng j And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon...

...war, or battle's «>und Was heard the world around ; The idle «pear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood...eye. As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But the stage had been preparing long before—the level ground on which Пе was to stand, so as to...

...No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around, The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord waa by. T. But peaceful was the ni^ht, Wherein the Prince of Liiilit His reign of peace...

...the world around. The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood, Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by." EXERCISES. By whom was the government of Judea administered after the death...

...bent of eye, Before the dread Jehovah, God of hosts." Milton, Hymn of the Nativity, St. iv., — " And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by." Dryden, Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2, — " I love you, brother, with that awful love I bear to heaven,...