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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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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening s | ' Tlieir lut forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade...
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The Letters of the British Spy

William Wirt - Virginia - 1844 - 278 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation'feyes. Their lot forbade"— The heart of a philanthropist, no matter to -what country or what...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 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 thit gates of mercy on mankind ; The...
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The attaché; or, Sam Slick in England, by the author of 'The clockmaker ...

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1845 - 342 pages
...the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. ' The applause of listening senates to command; The threats of pain and ruin to...read their history in a nation's eyes. , Their lot forbad.—' " Whether the lot of the present generation will also forbid it, you must decide—or circumstances...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 19

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...thoughts, notning but forbiddennta of self dispatch hindered his artin,' it. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot furbad. (iray. Elegy wriltin ma Country Churchyard. FORBLOWN ; for, ie forth, and blown. Utterly blown....
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...K ..^LiL Li Jlx »-T-'--.'-PNOX »NC T.lU-.1. ' •'j'--' •' ON». XVI. Th' applause of listening senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ;...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...First's usurpation of power. 128 AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...Milton, here may rest — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. TV applause of list ning senates to command, • The threats of pain and ruin...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 English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er...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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