 The 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...  English Literature - Pagina 238door Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 431 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pagina’s
...comparison, to reflect on the pious, though unnoticed poor, whom, to do deeds of fame and glory— " Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind!" The name of king will not cover a crime from an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the record... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pagina’s
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest : Some Cromwell guiltless of his country'* blood. 1'lf applause of listening senates to command, The threats...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation s eyes, Their lot forbade: nor eircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pagina’s
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : por circumscrib'd alone The;r growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pagina’s
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. TIi' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed aione Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined : Forbade... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagina’s
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation'* eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pagina’s
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 'I'll' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 550 pagina’s
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; How obviously must the real Milton have been inglorious, if he had been mute ;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pagina’s
...dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, The' applause of listening senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1823 - 540 pagina’s
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade. How obviously must the real Milton have been inglorious, if he had been mute ; and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood ; 'I'ii' us dissolv'd ; and forth In order came the grand infernal...Alone the antagonist of Heav'n, nor less Than Hell's Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade... | |
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