 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...  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 241by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,- And shut thit gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...To scatter plen'ty/ o'er a smiling la'nd, And read their luVtory/ in a nation's ey'es ; Their 1'ot forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing...pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous sh'ame ; Or heap the shrine of lux'ury/ and pride, With incense kin'dled/ at... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...First's usurpation of power. 128 AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muses' flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...Milton, here may rest — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. TV applause of list ning senates to command, • The threats of pain and ruin...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the maddening... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forhade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenious shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined j Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; — The struggling... | |
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