 | Adam Ferguson - 1825 - 454 sivua
...his own country. * 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. OKAY'S Elegy in a Country Church-yard. been reluctant in the shedding of blood, his mercy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sivua
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor eireumserib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their erimes eonfin'd ; eonfess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, I'nseen, unh of merey on mankind ; The struggling pangs of eonseious truth to hide, To queneh the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | 1826 - 310 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 hide, To qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 sivua
...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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 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 hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 sivua
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 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 hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 sivua
...to command, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;— The struggling pangs of conscious Truth... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 sivua
...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; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 574 sivua
...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... | |
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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... 
