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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, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... "
Old favourites from the elder poets, with a few newer friends, a selection ... - Page 167
by Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 393 pages
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 542 pages
...dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mule, inglorious Milton, here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The...ruin, to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling laud, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; How obviously must the real Milton...
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade. How obviously must the real Milton have been inglorious, if he had been mute ; and...
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œuvres de M. J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village...guiltless of his country's blood. The' applause of list'njng senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood ; 'I'ii' us dissolv'd ; and forth In order came the grand infernal...Alone the antagonist of Heav'n, nor less Than Hell's Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast Tbe little Tyrant of his fields withstood ; Th' applanse of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...charms Shone with attraction to herself unknown ; Whose beauty might have blessed a monarch's arms, Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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. The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is bor n to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...dauntless breast, The little tvrantof his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The...land, — And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd, alone, Their growing virtues,— but their crimes confin'd; Forbade...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 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. The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade...
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