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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... "
A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ... - Pagina 597
door Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 776 pagina’s
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history4 in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs5 of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,...
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The attaché; or, Sam Slick in England, by the author of 'The clockmaker ...

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1845 - 342 pagina’s
...celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. ' The applause of listening senates to command; The threats...read their history in a nation's eyes. , Their lot forbad.—' " Whether the lot of the present generation will also forbid it, you must decide—or circumstances...
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pagina’s
...country's blood. .-E-'.V YGJ-. K ..^LiL Li Jlx »-T-'--.'-PNOX »NC T.lU-.1. ' •'j'--' •' ON». XVI. Th' applause of listening senates to command ; The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ;...
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Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood

Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 pagina’s
...comparison, to reflect on thepious, though unnoticed, poor, whom, to do deeds of fame and glory — "Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind !" The name of king will not cover a crime from art' all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of...
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagina’s
...To scatter plen'ty/ o'er a smiling la'nd, And read their luVtory/ in a nation's ey'es ; Their 1'ot forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing...slau'ghter/ to a thr'one, And shut the gates of me'rcy/ on manki'nd ; The struggling pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

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...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,...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

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...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,...
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The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

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...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,...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

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...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

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...
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