 | 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...to despise, 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... | |
 | 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...despise, ^ 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,... | |
 | 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 despise, 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... | |
 | 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...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, " Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And 'waste its sweetness on the desert air. Som/e village Hampden , that with dauntless breast...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing... | |
 | 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...to despise, 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... | |
 | 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...despise, , 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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...dauntless breasf» The little tyrant of his fields withstood, «Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th* applause of list'ning senates to command, Tile threats of pain -and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, A»d read their hist'ry... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...ocean bear ; Full many a flow'r is born to blush, unseen. And waste. its sweetness on the desart air. ••Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...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... | |
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Th' applause of list'ning 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... 
