| 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... | |
| 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 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... | |
| 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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