| 1846 - Počet stránok 436
...eyes, 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 - Počet stránok 332
...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... | |
| 1846 - Počet stránok 486
...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,... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - Počet stránok 238
...eyes, 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - Počet stránok 488
...$c.] A 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... | |
| Book - 1847 - Počet stránok 206
...— 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... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - Počet stránok 344
...eyes, 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,... | |
| Merrill D. Peterson - 1989 - Počet stránok 228
...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 - Počet stránok 226
...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 - Počet stránok 422
...nation's 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,... | |
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