 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 pages
...comparison, to reflect on the pious, 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 an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...dauntless breast 1 The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Millon here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th'...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, 3 1 A writer in the ninth volume of the Quarterly Review cites the following passage from... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...; 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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...Some mute, inglorious Milton, — here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates pf mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...withstood ; Some mule inglorious Milton here may rest j 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 ; Forbabe to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling Innd, lls, His limbs invested in their gorgeous plait -...wife, his children, left To struggle with adversity : mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench tho blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Til' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,3 l A writer in the ninth volume of the Quarterly Review cites Uie following passage from Bishop HalTa... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...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,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...threats of pain and 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 circumscribed...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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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... 
