 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, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes...  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Seite 241von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimesconfined; Forbade, to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their erimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind;... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood ; Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | 1840 - 372 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood ; Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1841 - 416 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind j The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 Seiten
...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...hide', To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame'; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride', With incense kindled at the muse's Same'. Far from the madd'ning... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 Seiten
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening rlet mantle warm, and velvet-capt, Tie Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 Seiten
...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...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening... | |
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