 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...unknown; Whose beauty might have blest a monarch's arms, And virtue cast a lustte on the throne: That Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood [41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...Hampden, who, within these few years, withstood an act of public oppression, and had it redressed. xvI. " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some; mute inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. *Th'...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... | |
 | William Wirt - United States - 1804 - 120 pages
...little tyrant of his fields withstood ; some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest j some Cromiyell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th" applause of...ruin to despise, to scatter plenty o'er a smiling laud, and read their history in a nation's eye their lot forbade :" The heart of a philanthropist,... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guillless of his country's hlood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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 - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood[41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...Milton, here, may rest ; Some Cromwell, .guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause dflist'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, 'To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, An d read their history in a natter's eyes., Their lot forbad.:"'. The heart of a philanthropist, no... | |
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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, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... 
