 | Thomas Gray - 1915 - 252 pagina’s
...plenty o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes, Their A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 115 Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing...Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And ftiut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth to hide, To quench the... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 pagina’s
...o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed 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. . . Far from the madding crowd's ignoble... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 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... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1924 - 400 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, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 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... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 pagina’s
...list'ning senate, and . . . Akenside, Ode to Sleep (1745). st. IV. 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... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 pagina’s
...list'ning senate, and . . . Akenside, Ode to Sleep (1745), st. IV. 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 Blake - 2000 - 132 pagina’s
...inglorious Milton here may reft. Some Cromwell guihlcfs 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 lot forbade : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 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... | |
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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... 
