 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, o Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning 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 confin'd ; Var. V. 58. Fields] Lands,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, M Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' 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, ir, Their lot forbade : nor cireumserib'd alone w Their growing virtues, but their erimes confin'd... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...withstood, Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, 4nJ shut the' gates of mercy on mankind ; — The... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 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...history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade... | |
 | William Oland Bourne - African Americans - 1870 - 834 pages
...encouraged, characters that will do honor to human nature — that will have it in their power The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. The experience of the Society having made the expediency of an amendment of the law apparent, the trustees... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...Dwight and men of his stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats...smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating comparison was... | |
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Th' 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, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... 
