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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 history in a nation's eyes... "
The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language - Page 140
by Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 332 pages
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...attraction to herself unknown ; Whose beauty might have blessed a monarch's arms, Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest: Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood* The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Milton here may rest, — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, — The threats of pain and ruin...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd, alone, Their growing virtues,— but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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...
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The North American Review, Volume 29

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. -Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...land, And read their history in a nation's eyes,' does ' their lot ' forbid it ? No ; but their minds do not grasp it. We speak with feelings at the...
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Oeuvres completes de M. J. Chenier: precedees de notices ..., Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Mais, perçant du tombeau l'éternelle retraite, Des chants raniment-ils la poussière muette? La flatterie...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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...
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 60 tree's The applause of list'ning s-hateto command, [heap, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade. Nor circumscrib'd alone 6f> Their growing virtues, but their crimes, confm'd Forbade to wade through slaughter...
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