 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 strani
...rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to co mmand, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 strani
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood ; The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates oi mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 strani
...our cheerful firesides — thence let us select the heroes of our mental homage, those whom, " The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 strani
...Milton here may rest, ra Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone es Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Var. V. 58. Field*] Lands,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 strani
...inglorious Milton here may rest, o Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone « Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Var. V. 58. Fields] Lands,... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 strani
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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,... | |
 | 1854 - 456 strani
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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,... | |
 | William Oland Bourne - 1870 - 834 strani
...encouraged, characters that will do honor to human nature — that will have it in their power The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. The experience of the Society having made the expediency of an amendment of the law apparent, the trustees... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 strani
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 strani
...Dwight and men of his stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats...smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating comparison was... | |
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Th' 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... 
