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" That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods,... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 286
1868
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The brave old English confessors

English confessors - 1860 - 380 pages
...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods, with vulgar spile, To vindicate his helpless right ! Eut bowed his comely head, Down,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...case ; That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...right; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. —This was that memorable hour Which first assured the forced power : So when they did design The...
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The Trials of Charles the First, and of Some of the Regicides: With ...

Charles I (King of England) - 1861 - 366 pages
...have witnessed 'vhat he describes, writes of this scene: — . " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bovv'd his comely head Down as upon a bed." Ode to Cromwell, on his Return from Ireland. ' History...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 113

1861 - 624 pages
...might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : ' He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene : But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : ' Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Hi nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene,...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down,...
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Horace, with Engl. notes by J.E. Yonge, Volume 1

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1865 - 298 pages
...Cromwell's return from Ireland ends with an evident and a fine imitation of this ode : " He (Charles I.) nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene,...The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgai spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." DS CARMEN...
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The British Poets, Volume 10

1866 - 400 pages
...thus finely described by Andrew Marvel: — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody bauds, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe.s edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed...
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Margaret Smith's journal. Old portraits and modern sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 514 pages
...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right l But towed his comely head, Down,...
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Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 pages
...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right I But bowed his comely head, Down,...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 53

1867 - 532 pages
...such a quarter, on the execution of Charles the First, are scarcely so well known as they deserve : 'He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down...
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