 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th'...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1852 - 512 pages
...of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and rain to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut tha gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes... | |
 | Meliora - 1852 - 314 pages
...ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad . To endeavour to alter the lot of such as these, and to afford to all the means of elevating... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history iii a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to co mmand, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd : Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood ; The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates oi mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...our cheerful firesides — thence let us select the heroes of our mental homage, those whom, " The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade... | |
 | William Oland Bourne - African Americans - 1870 - 834 pages
...encouraged, characters that will do honor to human nature — that will have it in their power The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. The experience of the Society having made the expediency of an amendment of the law apparent, the trustees... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...Dwight and men of his stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats...smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating comparison was... | |
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Th' applause of listening 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... 
