| Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...memorable scene; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. (57-64) The ingenious translingual word play (Latin acirs means both the edge of a weapon and the eyesight)... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: 60 Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate...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... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - History - 1996 - 220 pages
...himself, and his sword is pure spirit also. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate...right; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. What a transit was that of his horizontal body alone, but just cut down from the gallows-tree! We read,... | |
| 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... | |
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