"Unspilt" Quotes from Famous Books
... yet a moment, the fell steel restrain; Must Nature's sacred ties all plead in vain? Ah! while your kindred blood remains unspilt, And Heaven allows an awful pause from guilt, Suspend the war, and recognize the bands, Against whose lives you arm your impious hands!— Not these, the boast of Gallia's proud domains, Nor the scorched squadrons ... — English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum |