 Forbade to wade through 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...  Chaucer to Burns - Side 262redigert av - 1883Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 sider
...have blest a monarch's arms, And virtue cast a lustte on the throne: That Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 sider
...Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood [41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, [41] Mr. Edwards (Author of Ihe Canons of Criticism), who, though an old... | |
 | 1800 - 322 sider
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause oflist'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circuuiscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 sider
...lie buried an.d unseen, like gems or jewels in the ocean, .or like flowers in a forest. 2L . xV. " Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The lives of Hampden, Milton, and Cromwell are to be met with in every history of England. In Butler's... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. *Th' applause of list'ning senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin...history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ? Forbade to wade- through slaughter... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 286 sider
...second paper might have possibly furnished a hint to Mr. Gray for this fine verse in his Elegy : * Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood." The passage in the Tatler is as follows : " I soon observed, for it was easy to discover, the seeds and... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 284 sider
...second paper might have possibly furnished a hint to Mr. Gray for this !fine verse in his Elegy : ,. . " Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood." The passage in the Tatler is as follows : " I soon observed, for it was easy to discover, the seeds and... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 sider
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th* applause ot Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, - "' And read their hist'ry in a natiqu's «yes, 4 I ELEGY " ~ Their lot forbad; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 sider
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guillless of his country's hlood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes. Their lot forhade ; nor i-ircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, hut... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 sider
...Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood[41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but... | |
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