 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 590 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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 •," — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 412 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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 ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 414 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " 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 ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...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... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...Lost, Dwight and men of his stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The...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... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 pages
...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,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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... | |
 | 1996 - 160 pages
...Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. 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 forbade; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade... | |
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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... 
