 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 էջ
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues ; but their crimes eonfin'd, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The strugglmg pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 էջ
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed 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 pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | 1826 - 310 էջ
...Their lot forbade : nor 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; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 էջ
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed 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 pangs of conscious truth to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 էջ
...Their lot forbade : nor 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, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 էջ
...Their lot forbade : nor 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 ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 562 էջ
...ambition, (see supra, p. 346, note.) the Advice and Petition of you, I did look that you, that bad offered it unto me. should make it good. I did tell...the dwellers " under the wood-side ;" where " Great Julias, on the mountains bred, A flock, perhaps, or herd had led : He that the world subdued, had been... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 էջ
...command, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;— The struggling pangs of conscious Truth... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 էջ
...Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd 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 pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 էջ
...lot forbade : nor circumscribed 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 pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame... | |
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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... 
