 That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene...  John Inglesant: A Romance - Seite 165von Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1891 - 445 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 Seiten
...Marvell to the Lord Protector Cromwell, entitled] " An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland." While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The'axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the... | |
 | 1838 - 504 Seiten
...cultivated poetry and verse, would have shone as a poet. Speaking of the death of Charles I., he says, — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did trye : Nor call'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case; But we quickly found out, for who could mistake her? That she came or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 Seiten
...surprised that Bishop Heber did not quote Andrew Marvell's magnificent lines on Charles I. : •— " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 Seiten
...To Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, While round the armed bands, Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene; But with his keener ege, The axe's edge did trge. Nor calfd the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 350 Seiten
...surprised that Bishop Heber did not quote Andrew Marvell's magnificent lines on Charles I. : — '* While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean. Upon that memorable scene; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor calPd the Gods... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 Seiten
...Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, WICile round the armed bands, Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or meaa, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did tryc. Nor caWd the... | |
 | 1842 - 712 Seiten
...wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case ; That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn,...Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the... | |
 | 1847 - 810 Seiten
...reality. We need not wish to deceive our• We allude to Marvell's well-known lines in his Alcaic Ode : "That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold...Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 Seiten
...surprised that Bishop Heher did not quote Andrew Mir veil's magnificent lines on Charles I. : — " e Gordon Byron or mean. Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the... | |
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