| 1809 - 878 sider
...Marvell to the Lord Protector Cromwell, entitled, " An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland." While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down as upon a beil. SIR RICHARD STEELE.... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 sider
...Marvell to the Lord Protector Cromwell, entitled] " An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland." While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The'axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spitf To vindicate his helpless right, But... | |
| 1834 - 566 sider
...the " Royal Actor," for so he also styles him, even in addressing Cronlwell. Marvel speaks : — " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...scene; But, with his keener eye, The axe's edge did trye. Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, t To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely... | |
| 1838 - 504 sider
...cultivated poetry and verse, would have shone as a poet. Speaking of the death of Charles I., he says, — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did trye : Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helplesse right ; l'ii! bow'd his comely... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 sider
...Cromwell. Alluding to the execution of the monarch, he says : — " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean,...axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head THE SENSE OF THE NATION. IN the year... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1823 - 442 sider
...memorable scene ; But, with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down as upon a bed." THE SENSE OF THE NATION. IN the year 1710, a pamphlet of ninety-one pages was published, entitled... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1823 - 436 sider
...Cromwell. Alluding to the execution of the monarch, he says :— " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene; The axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...chase To Carisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn. p. The good old si called the Gods, with vulgar spite, To. vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 sider
...surprised that Bishop Heber did not quote Andrew Marvell's magnificent lines on Charles I. : •— " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Do\vn, as upon a bed." — E.] Defy all codes to image or to name them ; Then, when of Cyprus, now... | |
| Charles I (King of England) - 1832 - 372 sider
...have witnessed what he describes, writes of this scene : — " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...axe's edge did try : Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bow'd his comely head Down as upon a bed." Ode to Cromvielt,... | |
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