 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 sivua
...Their lot forhade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; 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,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sivua
...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 bide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1823 - 258 sivua
...names, and in their conduct plainly shew, that, had they but a field of action, they would every day " Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." This, however, a gracious Providence ofttimes forbids, and in pity to the human race cuts... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 sivua
...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; panjs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 428 sivua
...#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. 356. Then came the smallest, Sfc.] " I saw anone the fifth route,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 sivua
...lfc.] 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. 358. Then came the smallest, lfc.'] " I saw anone the fifth route,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 sivua
...Jean Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confîn'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,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 sivua
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; 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 - 1825 - 346 sivua
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 sivua
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues ; but their crimes eonfin'd, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The strugglmg 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... 
