 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...o'er a fmiling land, And read iheir hift'ry in a nation's eyes-, Their lot forbade; nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through fiaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The ftruggling pangs of confcious Truth... | |
 | Dio (Chrysostom.) - Greek literature - 1800 - 284 pages
...Richard Cromwell experienced the truth of this observation, and Gray acknowledges it in his Elegy : Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind, (rf) This fancy of the Trojan shepherd was no bad fancy.' in my opinion; and would not have... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, " Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; And read their history in a nation's eyes. — This line is very beautiful. A great man,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing...wade- through slaughter to a throne, And shut the grates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide , To quench the blushes... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...ruin to despise, , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; [41] Mr. Edwards (Author of the Canons of Criticism), who, though an old bachelor, like Mr. Gray,... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...forbad; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; • The ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide» To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Tfieir growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes cf ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes connn'd ; !'(>: i) ,-.l to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy...Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Sliamb, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Ptide t With incense kindled at tlie Muse's flame. Far from... | |
 | United States - 1807 - 442 pages
...actions, which constitute vulgar greatness, and to dwell slightly upon the horrid atrocities of those, who wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; who cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; wiiose foot-steps are traced in the blood of... | |
 | 1807 - 574 pages
...towards a higher degree of perfection; and dwelling more slightly upon the atrocities of those who " wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind," who " cry havoc and let ¡-lip the dogs, of war," whose steps are traced in the blood of... | |
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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... 
