 | George Mogridge - 1844 - 370 pages
...Shipwrecks. — Fireworks. As I have but little love or loyalty for such monarchs as delight in war, who " Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;" and very little inclination to regard battles and sieges, and sacking of cities, and great... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...1'ot forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing virtues/, but their crimes confin'ed ; Forbade to wade through slau'ghter/ to a thr'one, And shut the gates of me'rcy/ on manki'nd ; The struggling pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs5 of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 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. j XVII. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 pages
...for felony? — Yet the coincidence between Ellesmere and Gray could hardly be accidental : " Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." law had taken its course ; yet, according to the understand- CHAP. ing which had been entered... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 pages
..."Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through- slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind !" The name of king will not cover a crime from art' all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | 1846 - 332 pages
...prompted him to sacrifice the happiness and lives of millions to his love of fame, and caused him ' To wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' In a retired village in Vermont, two hundred miles from any seaport, a traveller, not many... | |
 | Samuel Simon Schmucker - 1846 - 528 pages
...shield, but it was a shield of faith ; for his was a religion of peace and good will to men, and forbade "To wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Nor had the Jews any ground for considering Jesus as an enthusiast. The moderation uniformly... | |
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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... 
