 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 erimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind;... | |
 | James Maidment - 1839 - 406 pages
...their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through discord widely sown, And shut the gates of justice on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth...shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at some holy flame. Far from the bustling crowd's ignoble strife, Their humble wishes never learned to... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...and ruin to despise', To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land', And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes', Their lot forbade';* nor circumscribed alone'...confined'; Forbade' to wade through slaughter to a ihrone', And shut the gates of mercy on mankind': The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide',... | |
 | Matthew Richey - 1839 - 394 pages
...righteousness ; and eagerly avail themselves of the lowest gibe, or the merest artifice of simulation, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame. Happy is it for them, when these struggles gain the ascendancy, — when conscience, assuming the majesty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...excellently expresssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic trite: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFI£LD. [4] « To drink the air," like the Amuttu atherios of Virgil, is merely a poetical phrase... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...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. Гi/шгюi/ íyKpvтrrfiv та тrавos Kai à\авfа yvшaàv, Tfvvalas т aidas fpvвpov... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 154 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'tl alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confiVd Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Tvacriov cyKpinrrfiv TO ird6os Kal a\a6fa yvwfiav, Tfvvatas T alSa>s fpv6puv 6d\os avroff... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...retirement of the villagers who were Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Flame.18 Yet retirement implies a prior engagement: which entails that the tension is felt by the poet... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1989 - 228 pages
...the storm — who are not honest, who 90 wear humanity as a mask, whose aim is power, and who 'would wade through slaughter to a throne and shut the gates of mercy on mankind.'2 I have considered the United States as owing to the world an example, and that this is their... | |
 | Sydney Ross - 1991 - 254 pages
...ideal, chose science for its own sake and regarded themselves as benefactors of mankind. They scorned To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. They did in fact use similar lofty expressions in describing their ideals. To them the word scientist... | |
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The 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... 
