 He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.  The Eclectic Review - Side 2531840Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Parry - 1851 - 532 sider
...mean Upon the memorable scene : But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." OLIVER CROMWELL, although not a royal person, may in some respects be looked upon as such. During the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 sider
...mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. And he who wrote this was Cromwell's Latin Secretary ! and Cromwell's other Latin Secretary was Milton... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 sider
...memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed." ANDREW MARVELL. " To a dull contentment being bred." WITUEB. " Yon that seek to turn all flowers, By... | |
 | 1852 - 302 sider
...that memorable scene ; 13ut with his keener eye, ' • The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, • To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. If we may take Marvell's ode on Cromwell's return from Ireland, from which we have quoted, as au authority,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 444 sider
...memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try. Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight, To vindicate his helpless right : But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The capitol's... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 sider
...Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite. To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. If we may take Marvell's ode on Cromwell's return from Ireland, from which we have quoted, as an authority,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 sider
...with hie keener eye, The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate hie helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. If we may take Marvell's ode on Crom well's return from Ireland, from which we have quoted, as an authority,... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1857 - 420 sider
...mcaiif Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head •Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So, when they did design The capitol's... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 sider
...mean, Upon 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 bowed his comely head Downe as upon a bed !" There are two scarcely-known poets of this period, who, being equally zealous... | |
 | 1861 - 624 sider
...Upon that memorable scene : But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : ' Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' This style of political poetry, manly and forcible in a high degree, but often hard, and deficient... | |
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