...Yet left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon'd power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command...

...Yet left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon'd power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command...

...Yet left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon'd power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command...

...succeeded his grandfather Ferdinand in 1516; becaJM Emperor of Germany in 151*; ; abdicated in 1555. Gist coast, His mind as barren and his heart as : Yf t better had he neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant...

...and pray'r-books are the toys of age. Cf. Byron, Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, st. 8 : 1 The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell ; ft strict accountant of his beads, — A subtle disputant on creeds,' See. EPISTLE III. l. 1. Here...

...rosaries away, An empire for a eell ; A striet aeeountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on ereeds, His dotage trifled well ;§ Yet better had he neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne, But thou — from thy reluetant hand The thunderbolt is wrung— • "Certaminls jaudtX"— the expresslon...

...such power, It would control my dam's God .' TDH 54. ' Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son.' 1. ' A strict accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well.' 2. ' Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.' 3. ' But screw your courage to the sticking place.' 4....

...left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld, abandoned power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command...

...Yuste, a fair abbey of our Spain, A lowly home and quiet haven found. Luis CAPATA. Trans. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well. BYBON. He died at Yuste in 1558. In Saint Just the silent bowers Hear a drowsy funeral lay : Bells...

...those that worshipp'd thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition 's less than littleness! he Gorgon would disown; A cheek of parchment—and an eye of stone. Mark, how the ch Thanks for that lesson—it will teach To after-warriors more, Than high Philosophy can preach, That...