The 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, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Seite 241von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muses' flame. Far from the madding... | |
| Edwin Waugh - 1857 - 256 Seiten
...Milton here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. " The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...conscious truth to hide; To quench the blushes of ingenious shame; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's Some. "... | |
| William Sherwood - 1857 - 396 Seiten
...rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates t9 command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 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...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Til' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,3 l A writer in the ninth volume of the Quarterly Review cites Uie following passage from Bishop... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest j Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;- Forbade to waxle through slaughter to a throne, And shut tlw gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty p'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1858 - 196 Seiten
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Then- lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1858 - 466 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined j— Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling... | |
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