 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pagina’s
...o'er a Trailing land, And read their hifl'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade; nor circumfcribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through (laughter to a throne, And (hut the gates of mercy on mankind. The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pagina’s
...comparison, to reflect on the pious, though unnoticed poor, whom, to do deeds of fame and glory— " Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind!" The name of king will not cover a crime from an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the record... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pagina’s
...monarch's arms, And virtue cast a lustte on the throne: That Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pagina’s
...Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood [41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, ^ To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, [41] Mr. Edwards (Author of Ihe Canons of Criticism), who, though an old... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pagina’s
...rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause oflist'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circuuiscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their... | |
 | Dio (Chrysostom.) - 1800 - 284 pagina’s
...Richard Cromwell experienced the truth of this observation, and Gray acknowledges it in his Elegy : Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind, (rf) This fancy of the Trojan shepherd was no bad fancy.' in my opinion; and would not have... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pagina’s
...act of public oppression, and had it redressed. xvI. " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter...history in a nation's eyes, " Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagina’s
...rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. *Th' applause of list'ning senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter...history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ? Forbade to wade- through slaughter... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pagina’s
...rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood[41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pagina’s
...rest, Some Cromwell, guillless of his country's hlood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes. Their lot forhade ; nor i-ircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, hut... | |
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Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 60 Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain... 
