...this respect, and has ventured to put his name to these stupendous lines : — ' God's most perfect instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; Yea, Carnage is God's daughter.' It would be difficult to imagine anything more shocking and more immoral than this....

...before thee, and we laud And magnify thy name,, Almighty God! But thy most dreaded instrument In wrting out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter,— Yea, Carnage is thy daughter !' p. 17. "What strange and revolting phraseology, to use the mildest term, is this ! How utterly at...

...point their terrors, We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a...for mutual slaughter, . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter ! Thou cloth'st the wicked in their dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine...

...peculiar effect. Note 2, page 115, line 14. " Carnage" (so Wordsworth tells you) " is God's daughter." " But thy* most dreaded instrument " In working out...mutual slaughter ; " Yea, Carnage is thy daughter !" WORDSWORTH'S Thanksgiving Ode. Note 3, page 120, line 8. Was printed Grove, although his name was...

...syllahle, which gives it a very wild and peculiar effect. t '• Hut Mi/11 mostdreadful instrument " sn working out a pure intent, "Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; " Yea, Carnage is thy daug/*tr.'" WORDSWORTH'S T/anksgMng Ode. y To wit, tha Deity's: this is perhaps as pretty a pedigree...

...Note 2, page 386, stanza ix. « Carnage, (so Wordsworth tells you) is God's danghter: etc. But tlty ' most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent,...man arrayed for mutual slaughter; Yea, carnage is tliy daughter! WORDSWORTH'S, Thanksgiving Odc. 1 To »ii. Ihr Diiiy'1i Ihiiii pirfaapi H preny » pedigree...

...point their terrors, 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...for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is thy daughter ! Thou cloth'st the wicked in their dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine...

...reference to Carnage was duo to Byron's use, or misuse, of the passage. JAJ HOUSDEN. But thy most dreadful instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed...for mutual slaughter : Yea, Carnage is thy daughter. Alas ! that I so lately knew theo. I should think that the line TS is in search of would be the following...

...wildest rhapsodies of Pindar : — 'We laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent Is man —...mutual slaughter — Yea, Carnage is thy daughter!' In 1803, after the birth of his first child, the poet paid a visit to Scotland ; and, as on every future...

...point their terrors, 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...for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is thy daughter ! Thou cloth'st the wicked in their dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine...