 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - Počet stránok 270
...eyes, 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,... | |
 | Dio (Chrysostom.) - 1800 - Počet stránok 284
...Richard Cromwell experienced the truth of this observation, and Gray acknowledges it in his Elegy : Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind, (rf) This fancy of the Trojan shepherd was no bad fancy.' in my opinion; and would not have... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - Počet stránok 302
...spouse; 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,... | |
 | 1800 - Počet stránok 322
...Their lot forbad: nor circuuiscrib'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. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - Počet stránok 152
...eyes, " 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 ; And read their history in a nation's eyes. — This line is very beautiful. A great man,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - Počet stránok 224
...spouse ; That virtue form'd, for every decent part, The healthy offspring that adorn'd their house. 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,... | |
 | 1806 - Počet stránok 408
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Tfieir growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad 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 cf ingenuous shame,... | |
 | 1806 - Počet stránok 330
...Tiieir lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coafin'd ; Forbad 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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - Počet stránok 728
...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, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | 1807 - Počet stránok 442
...actions, which constitute vulgar greatness, and to dwell slightly upon the horrid atrocities of those, who wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; who cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; wiiose foot-steps are traced in the blood of... | |
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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... 
