 | 1846 - 486 pages
...whom, Led on by mad ambition's lure alone, Keen-eyed to glory, but to justice blind, Have waded on through " slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind :" If the warriors of the world, with the glittering tiara or the laurel wreath on their brows,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...Their lot forhade : nor circumscrib'd 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...noble verse! which probably held out a light to Gray, in that passage of genuine sublimity, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. — Wakefield, IMITATIONS. Ver. 328. 338. behold another crowd, S?c. — From the black trumpets... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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,... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 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,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd 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... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 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 ingenious shame,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade 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,... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; 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,... | |
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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... 
