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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 history in a nation's eyes... "
The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature - Page 501
by Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868
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Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood

Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...though unnoticed poor, whom, to do deeds of fame and glory— " Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind!" The name of king will not cover a crime from an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the record...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...unknown; Whose beauty might have blest a monarch's arms, And virtue cast a lustte on the throne: That Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood [41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, [41] Mr. Edwards (Author of Ihe Canons of Criticism), who, though an old...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...Hampden, who, within these few years, withstood an act of public oppression, and had it redressed. xvI. " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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 ;...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some; mute inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. *Th'...circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ? Forbade to wade- through slaughter to a throne, And shut the grates of mercy on mankind...
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The British Spy, Or, Letters to a Member of the British Parliament: Written ...

William Wirt - United States - 1804 - 120 pages
...little tyrant of his fields withstood ; some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest j some Cromiyell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th" applause of...ruin to despise, to scatter plenty o'er a smiling laud, and read their history in a nation's eye their lot forbade :" The heart of a philanthropist,...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guillless of his country's hlood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes. Their lot forhade ; nor i-ircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, hut...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood[41]. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th'...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Tiieir lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood : Some mute inglorious MILTON here may rest,] Some CROMWELL guiltless of his country's blood. Th'...The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plSnty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd...
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