 | Book - 1847 - Počet stránok 216
...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 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - Počet stránok 276
...blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Phi • 111 'i nremiiMTiIted alone I hi ' irtucs, Inn their crimes eonl'med H ;u!e llirniigli slaiiL.... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 564
...my copy prints as follows. I purposely select an instance where the sense runs on : — " To scatter Plenty o'er a smiling land And read their Hist'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined," &o. There are thus... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - 1849 - Počet stránok 436
...The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes. ' On the 22d of July, 1823, MR. CLINTON delivered the Annual Address before the Alpha of the PHI BETA... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - Počet stránok 524
...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 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 ;... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - Počet stránok 372
...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 shame... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 676
...The applause of listening leñatee to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confln'd ; Forbad to wade... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - Počet stránok 370
...the devoted, the disinterested worshipper of Him who " sitteth in the heavens." He of Rome sought " To wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." He of Tarsus untiringly strove, at every personal sacrifice, to conduct a fallen race to... | |
 | 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... | |
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Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their... 
