 | 1846 - 436 pagina’s
...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...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pagina’s
...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...Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined— Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; — The struggling... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pagina’s
...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...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pagina’s
...born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. # * * * Th' applause of list'ning senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin...history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pagina’s
...born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. * * * * Th' applause of list'ning senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin...read their history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forhade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pagina’s
...withstood, Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 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,... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pagina’s
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagina’s
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The* applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pagina’s
...Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 25 The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 30 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pagina’s
...is wont to tread : But his rude footsteps echoed round, Break not the silence of the dead. 769. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...read their history in a nation's eyes, — Their lot forbide : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; — Forbade to... | |
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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... 
