 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye 60 The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods with vulgar...vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Dow, as upon a bed. 65 This was that memorable hour Which first assured the forced power: So, when... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...variations - notice how the word "down" slows almost to motionlessness our image of the critical moment.) He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. In a chilling detail, the soldiery in the background "did clap their bloody hands". Cromwell is portrayed... | |
 | Thomas Page Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...famously represents the well-known scene of the king's execution: That thence the royal actor born The tragic scaffold might adorn: While round the armed...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... | |
 | Andreas Höfele - Cultural pluralism - 2007 - 363 pages
...the text suggests, in accordance with Cromwell's well-laid plans): That thence the royal actor born The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed...right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. (53-64) This scene of grandiose theatricality manages, due to the way it employs vocabulary derived... | |
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Did clap their bloody hands ; 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... 
