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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, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... "
The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ... - Pagina 92
door Thomas Gray - 1800 - 223 pagina’s
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The British poetical miscellany

British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pagina’s
...o'er a fmiling land, And read iheir hift'ry in a nation's eyes-, Their lot forbade; nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through fiaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The ftruggling pangs of confcious Truth...
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Select Essays of Dio Chrysostom

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...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pagina’s
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, " Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; And read their history in a nation's eyes. — This line is very beautiful. A great man,...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagina’s
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing...wade- through slaughter to a throne, And shut the grates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide , To quench the blushes...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pagina’s
...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 crimes confin'd ; [41] Mr. Edwards (Author of the Canons of Criticism), who, though an old bachelor, like Mr. Gray,...
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The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by ...

Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pagina’s
...forbad; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; • The ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide» To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pagina’s
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Tfieir growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes cf ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame....
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagina’s
...nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes connn'd ; !'(>: i) ,-.l to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy...Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Sliamb, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Ptide t With incense kindled at tlie Muse's flame. Far from...
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The Monthly Register, Magazine, and Review, of the ..., Volume 2,Nummers 1-6

1807 - 442 pagina’s
...actions, which constitute vulgar greatness, and to dwell slightly upon the horrid atrocities of those, who wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; who cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; wiiose foot-steps are traced in the blood of...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 52

1807 - 574 pagina’s
...towards a higher degree of perfection; and dwelling more slightly upon the atrocities of those who " wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind," who " cry havoc and let ¡-lip the dogs, of war," whose steps are traced in the blood of...
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