 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 590 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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 •," — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 414 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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 ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 412 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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 ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | William Wirt - Richmond (Va.) - 1837 - 280 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,...history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade"— The heart of a philanthropist, no matter to what country or what form of government he may belong,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Miltonf here may rest ; Some Cromwell,J guiltless of his country's blood. 16. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes ; 17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...Full many a flower' . . is born to blush unseen', And waste its sweetness' . . on the desert air'. Some village Hampden', that', with dauntless breast',...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land', And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes', Their lot forbade';* nor circumscribed alone' Their growing virtues',... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...relevé les débris, Et recueilli l'éloge en des yeux attendris, XVI. Т1Г applause of listening senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Moîpai ejrfкXuxruvт'' apfтаis ovx ÎA«u avтâv EK фóта où тч/шv, Kpaтfpаv тf тvpavvtSa... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...regni con la copia il riso, E la sua vita altrui leggere in faccia, XVI. TIT applause of listening senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVI. J XVII. Moîpiu lirfK\a>cravт'' apfтals av% ÎAfai aiтâv Фvvfífva1s, fíif Spav iго^'... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1839 - 154 pages
...regni con la copia il riso, E la sua vita altrui leggere in faccia, XVI. XVI. Th' applause of listening senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin to despise; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, XVII. Molpai fnfK\a>o'avr'- Apfrais ov\ "Aral avrav EK (potxa ov Tifiav, Kparfpav Tf rvpavviSa KrarrBm,... | |
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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... 
