 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - Počet stránok 574
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side;" where... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - Počet stránok 290
...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - Počet stránok 484
...vene'ration. Jean Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coufin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy ou mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - Počet stránok 516
...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,... | |
 | Edmund Dorr Griffin - 1831 - Počet stránok 478
...never made a hero. If by heroism is meant the bodying forth of that fearful ambition, which seeks " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," and which, if its power equalled its will, would appropriate to itself the crown of Omnipotence,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - Počet stránok 312
...eyes,— 17. 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 ; — 18. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - Počet stránok 1022
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - Počet stránok 122
...eyes, Their lot forbade. Nor circumscrib'd alone 6f> Their growing virtues, but their crimes, confm'd Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne And shut the gates of mercy on mankindwly Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, 20 Their sober wishes never learn 'd to strty... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - Počet stránok 548
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, hut their crimes connn'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.— Grag. Day. vni. C'al. 24. filrtlls. Saint John the Baptist, BC 4, Hebron, in Paleitine.... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - Počet stránok 254
...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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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... 
