 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 - Pagina 241de Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1814 - 310 pagini
...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed aione Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined :...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagini
...pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation'* eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pagini
...tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pagini
...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 ;...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. thought by some,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pagini
...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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pagini
...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 Far from the madding crowd's... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pagini
...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...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pagini
...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 shriae of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pagini
...that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...virtues, but their crimes confined ;- Forbade to wade throagh slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pagini
...watch around his tomb-stone keeps ; But, when the evening stars appear, 734. 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 ! LESSON XXXVII. MONOTONE. In the previous parts of this book the pupil has been made acquainted... | |
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