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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... "
Favourite English Poems: Thomson to Tennyson, 1700-1860 - Page 19
1863
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast,...guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th1 applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...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....
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood ; 'I'ii' applause of listening th In order came the grand infernal peers: Midst came...of Heav'n, nor less Than Hell's dread emperor with circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast Tbe little Tyrant of his fields withstood ; Th' applanse of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade...
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œuvres de M. J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The' applause of list'njng senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , Mais, perçant du tombeau l'éternelle retraite, Des chants raniment-ils la poussière muette? La...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...ocean bear : Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast 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...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...attraction to herself unknown ; Whose beauty might have blessed a monarch's arms, Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Tli' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...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...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...: Th' applause of listening senates to eommand, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To seatter g the traekless eireumserib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their erimes eonfin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. VOL, lit. 13* Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, i And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing...
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