 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 20 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd , Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | 1899 - 816 pagina’s
...read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, 220 THOMSON TO TENNYSON 65 Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1905 - 726 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1909 - 168 pagina’s
...inglorious Milton here may reft, Some Cromwell guiltlefs of his country's blood. Th' applaufe of lift'ning fenates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...fcatter plenty o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes, •.\ Their Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1909 - 168 pagina’s
...fcatter plenty o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes, A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 115 Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing...but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through daughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | 1911 - 784 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth... | |
 | 1913 - 910 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor cireumscrih'J alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Yet e'en these bones from insult to... | |
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Lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing Virtues, but their Crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a Throne, And... 
