 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 412 lehte
...now, at your command Are other weapons, my good Lord. RICHELIEU (who has seated himself as to write, lifts the pen). True,— THIS ! Beneath the rule of...great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing ! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 lehte
...niee seales the motives of the great, Ye eannot know what ye have never tried. Bulseer's Riehelieu. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The areh enehanter's wand ! itself a nothing ! But taking soreery from the master hand, To paralyze the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 lehte
...it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. HENRY TAYLOR. Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5. The world knows nothing of its greatest men.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 lehte
...of Waterloo prove less momentous than the opening of the first Mechanics' Institute. THOMAS CARLYIE. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The aivh enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing ! lint tiiking wmrery from the master hand To paralyze... | |
 | 1861 - 356 lehte
...Men shall wear softer hearts, And shudder at the butcheries of war, As now at other murders. BEYANT. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. How like a fiend may man Ire made, Plying the foul and monstrous trade Whose harvest-field is human... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1863 - 512 lehte
...your command Are other weapons, my good lord. Rich* [who IMS seated himself as to write, lifts tlie pen.] True,— THIS ! Beneath the rule of men entirely...great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing ! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1865 - 592 lehte
...fortune, — witchcraft, some. Not so ; my art was JUSTICE ! — The Pen mightier than the Sword. .... True THIS ! Beneath the rule of men entirely great,...Behold The arch- enchanter's wand — itself a nothing! By taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyze the Czsars, and to strike The loud earch breathless... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 lehte
...good are better made by ill, As odors crushed are sweeter still. ibid. St. 3. EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. Take away the sword, States can be saved without it. lUd. In the lexicon... | |
 | 1865 - 598 lehte
...of " Richelieu," Sir Edward Bnlwer Lytton puts into the mouth of that profound statesman, the words, "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." This was the origin of the phrase. Near the beginning of our war, a distinguished publisher of books,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 lehte
...Alone the poet's numbers ; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers. John Quincy Adams. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Ld.Lytton, Richelieu, n.2. PHTTTENCE— set Eepcntanco. Death is deferred, and penitence has room To... | |
| |
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing !— But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Caesars — and to strike The loud earth breathless ! — Take away the sword — States can be saved... 
