 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 - Page 2531840Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the Gods, never till this irksome night: Methought Close at mine ear one call'd me forth to walk With gentle This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The Capitol's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 550 pages
...mean, After 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 heroic Marquis of Montrose is said to have written his master's epitaph with the point of his sword.... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...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." selves, then, into a belief that hewas uncompromisingly firm, of whom Clarendon wrote, that " he had... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...After 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. Charles was attended to the scaffold by Bishop Juxon, and by two of the gentlemen of his bedchamber,... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 pages
...mean, After 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." 1 I have not spoken of the King's last sorrowful hours ; of his parting with his children ; of his... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 624 pages
...mean, After 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." l ' Aubrey do Vere, in poetry worthy of the time and the VOL. III. DD I have not spoken of the King's... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 642 pages
...mean Upon that memorable tcene, 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. It was not an obvious thought that a stanza of four linee would match a three-line stanza. If we count... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : JVbr 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: Abr calif d 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar Bpight To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed." A x I>H i \\ MABVELL. " To a dull contentment being bred." WITHES. " You that seek to turn all flowers,... | |
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