 Through the proud halls of time-emboldened guilt Portents of ruin, hear me ! — In your presence, For now I feel ye nigh, I dedicate This arm to the destruction of the king And of his race; O keep me pitiless : Expel all human weakness from my frame,...  Tragedies - Page 56by Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1840 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...presence, For now I feel ye nigh, I dedicate This arm to the destruction of the king And of his race ! О keep me pitiless ! Expel all human weakness from my...sacrifice My country asks, harden my soul to shed it ! TALFOURD. King Charles the Second. Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies... | |
 | sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1835 - 252 pages
...feel ye nigh, I dedicate This arm to the destruction of the king And of his race ! O keep me pityless, Expel all human weakness from my frame, That this...harden my soul to shed it!— Was not that thunder '. 120 ION; A TRAGEDY. CIES1PHON. No ; I heard no sound. f Now mark me, Ion !—thou shall straight... | |
 | sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1836 - 140 pages
...blackness as a funeral pall, and breathe Through the proud halls of time-embolden'd guilt Portents of ruin, hear me !—In your presence. For now I feel...harden my soul to shed it!— Was not that thunder ? CTESIPHON. No ; I heard no sound. Now mark me, Ion!—thou shalt straight be led To the king's chamber;... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...Who clothe the faded battlements of tyranny Through the proud halls of time-embolden'd guilt Portents of ruin, hear me !—In your presence, For now I feel...frame, That this keen weapon shake not when his heart Whose blood is needful to the sacrifice Should feel its point; and if he has a child My country asks,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 pages
...blackness as a funeral pall, and breathe Through the proud halls of time-emboldeu'd guilt Portents of ruin, hear me !—In your presence, For now I feel...frame, That this keen weapon shake not when his heart Whose blood is needful to the sacrifice Should feel its point; and if he has a child My country asks,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 pages
...with great effect. Thus Ion, after dedicating himself to the destruction of the king, at the altar ; " And if he has a child Whose blood is needful to the...sacrifice My country asks, harden my soul to shed it!" These are examples of small traits, that would not perhaps generally be observed. They serve to show... | |
 | 1840 - 528 pages
...blackness as a funeral pall, and breathe Through the proud halls of time-embolden'd guilt Portents of ruin, hear me ! — In your presence, For now I...sacrifice My country asks, harden my soul to shed it ! — TALFOURD. Into ANAP.SSTIC DIMETERS : ALCIDES thus his race began, O'er infancy he swiftly ran... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...blackness as a funeral pall, and breathe Through the proud halls of time-embolden'd guilt Portents of ruin, hear me ! — In your presence, For now I...harden my soul to shed it !— Was not that thunder ! ION AT THE ENTRANCE OF A FOREST. O « i \ , / M. pathways, o'er whose scanty blades Of unaspiring... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 284 pages
...blackness as a funeral pall, and breathe, Through the proud halls of time-emboldened guilt Portents of ruin, hear me ! — In your presence, For now I...harden my soul to shed it ! — Was not that thunder ? Ctes. No ; I heard no sound. Now mark me, Ion ! thou shalt straight be led To the king's chamber... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...blackness as a funeral pall, and breathe Through the proud halls of time-embolden'd guilt Portents of ruin, hear me ! — In your presence, For now I...harden my soul to shed it ! — Was not that thunder ? ION AT THE ENTRANCE OF A FOREST. O wisni.vr, pathways, o'er whose scanty blades Of unaspiring grass... | |
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