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 2861868Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 764 pages
...at a single blow, one dismal, universal groan issued from the crowd ; ' He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called on God with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 548 pages
...— While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After 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,... | |
 | 1841 - 498 pages
...party. While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After 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, Down, as upon a bed. But bowed... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...I'S magnificent lines on Charles I. : — " While round the armed hands Did clap their Moody hands, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor callM the Gods with vulgar spight To »indicate his helpless right, But uow'u his comely head Down,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 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 risrht ; But bowed his comely head, Down,... | |
 | 1845 - 570 pages
...scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did trye, Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spig lit, To vindicate his helpless right : But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Marvell, too, is said to have written a most pathetic letter, in prose, on the execution of King Charles.... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 444 pages
...class, and responded to by the nation. " "While round the armecl 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, But bow'd his comely head Down,... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...with -vulgar spight, Upon the memorable scene;. But with his keener eye, .. The axe's edge did trye, k To vindicate his helpless right: But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Marvell, too, is said to have written a most pathetic letter, in prose, on the execution of King Charles.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 350 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...right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. The emphatic cadence of this couplet, — Bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed, Sir William Temple... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 886 pages
...veil's magnificent lines on Charles I. : — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, upon my r , spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a ued."J ' [See APPENDIX... | |
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