 The 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...  English Literature - Page 238by Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...charms Shone with attraction to herself unknown ; Whose beauty might have blessed a monarch's arms, Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 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...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 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...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, —...land, — And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd, alone, Their growing virtues,— but their crimes confin'd; Forbade... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 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...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;• Forbade... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1829 - 618 pages
...****** Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. -Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...land, And read their history in a nation's eyes,' does ' their lot ' forbid it ? No ; but their minds do not grasp it. We speak with feelings at the... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 16. TV applause of listening senates to command, The threats...land, And read their history in a nation's eyes,— 17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 16. Th' applau.se of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, — 17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;... | |
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