 Tis madness to resist or blame The force of angry heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the man is due, Who from his private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere, As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot, Could by industrious...  Writings - Page 97by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Theodore Tilton - Ballads - 1897 - 884 pages
...wise ? Then prithee tell, — Is old Pierre Cardinal in heaven or hell ? THE HARP OF ANDREW MARVELL. ' And if we would speak true, Much to the man is due Who' . .' . cast the kingdoms old Into another mould.' MARVELL'S Ode on Cromwell, AD 1650. I. O MARVELL'S... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...head at last Did through his laurels blast. 'Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry Heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the man...plot To plant the bergamot,) Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the kingdoms old Though Justice against Fate... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...last, Did, through his laurels, blast 'Tis madness to resist, or blame, The face of angry heaven's flame ! And, if we would speak true, Much to the Man...plot, To plant the bergamot!) Could, by industrious valour, climb To ruin the great work of Time ; And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould. Though... | |
 | Springfield City Library Association (Springfield, Mass.) - 1899 - 52 pages
...Light. MARVELL ON CROMWELL PART OF ANDREW HARWELL'S HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND ND if we would speak true, Much to the man is due, Who...He lived reserved and austere, (As if his highest plott To plant the bargamott : ) Could by industrious valor climb To ruin the great work of Time, And... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1900 - 590 pages
...mind within a body strong." Elsewhere he pictures the ascent of the future general of the Republic : " From his private gardens, where He lived reserved...austere, As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot." Yet even to these private gardens and sequestered fields the echo of the German drums must have penetrated,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...at last Did through his laurels blast. 382 Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry Heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the man...plot To plant the bergamot), Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould ; Though... | |
 | Arthur Stanley - English poetry - 1901 - 408 pages
...head at last Did through his laurels blast 'Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry Heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the man...plot To plant the bergamot), Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of Time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould; Though Justice... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...head at last Did through his laurels blast. Tia madness to resist or blame The face of angry Heaven's f hergamot), Could by industrious valor climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 886 pages
...renouncing a private life, which we get also in Marveil's prose; so is the touch about Cromwell's garden: where He lived reserved and austere, (As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot.) So also is the remarkable detachment from political prejudice, of which the verses prefixed to the... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...head at last Did through his laurels blast. 'Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the Man...plot To plant the bergamot,) Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould ; Though... | |
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