 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor eireumserib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their erimes eonfin'd ; eonfess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, I'nseen, unh of merey on mankind ; The struggling pangs of eonseious truth to hide, To queneh the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, i And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their...The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...ve'ne'ration. Jean Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confm'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingeniions Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flamc.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...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...virtues,— but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne; And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...to 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... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side ;"... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 574 pages
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side;" where... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...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 virtues, — but their crimes confm'd; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne; And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 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 virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...eyes. Their lot forbade' ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Tfaeir growing virtues, but their crimes oonfiu'dj Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...blushes of ingenuous shame; ' Or heap the shrine of luxry and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife,... | |
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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... 
