 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 Seiten
...; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,- And shut thit gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 Seiten
...did little betray his thoughts, notning but forbiddennta of self dispatch hindered his artin,' it. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot furbad. (iray. Elegy wriltin ma Country Churchyard. FORBLOWN ; for, ie forth, and blown. Utterly blown.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history4 in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs5 of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1845 - 342 Seiten
...celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. ' The applause of listening senates to command; The threats...read their history in a nation's eyes. , Their lot forbad.—' " Whether the lot of the present generation will also forbid it, you must decide—or circumstances... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 Seiten
...country's blood. .-E-'.V YGJ-. K ..^LiL Li Jlx »-T-'--.'-PNOX »NC T.lU-.1. ' •'j'--' •' ON». XVI. Th' applause of listening senates to command ; The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ;... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 Seiten
...comparison, to reflect on thepious, though unnoticed, poor, whom, to do deeds of fame and glory — "Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind !" The name of king will not cover a crime from art' all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...To scatter plen'ty/ o'er a smiling la'nd, And read their luVtory/ in a nation's ey'es ; Their 1'ot forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing...slau'ghter/ to a thr'one, And shut the gates of me'rcy/ on manki'nd ; The struggling pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...resisted King Charles the First's usurpation of power. 128 AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...Milton, here may rest — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. TV applause of list ning senates to command, • The threats of pain and ruin...slaughter to a throne. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; — The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 Seiten
...Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
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Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes... 
