...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood ; Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap...

...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...

...Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 16 The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes — 17 Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...

...deeds of fame and glory— " Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, hut their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter...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...

...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind j The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame...

...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...

...stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin...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...

...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their his'try in a nation's eyes Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their...

...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th'applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad . . . (57—65 [stanzas 15—r/]) of the Commonwealth,...

...Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood, 60 Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their...