 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. Th...  Poems, journals, and essays - Page 76by Thomas Gray - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - 1753 - 164 pages
...o'er a fmiling land. And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd : Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing -virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through ftaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 308 pages
...fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes, • * * Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, ./Emu'lus Hamdeni hic aliquis requiefcat agreftis, Quern patriae... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad ; nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth to hide, To quench... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad ; nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on. mankind, The ftrnggling pangs of confcions truth... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | 1765 - 414 pages
...a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes (9) Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes, i7Their lot forbad : nor .circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne^ And fhut the gates of Mercy on mankind} i8' "The ftruggling pangs of confcious... | |
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