 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, The' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 550 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...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 how obviously... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forhade to wade... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...wrote sound philosophy, as well as beautiful poetry, in the following fine stanzas : — Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom'd caves...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 how obviously would... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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...of Heav'n, nor less Than Hell's dread emperor with circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast Tbe little Tyrant of his fields withstood ; Th' applanse of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...charms Shone with attraction to herself unknown ; Whose beauty might have blessed a monarch's arms, Th' applause of listening senates to command, The...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...withstood, . Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest: Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood* The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...withstood, Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's bloods The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
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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 Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... 
