 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap the-shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...eyes, 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 ! LESSON XXXVII. MONOTONE. In the previous parts of this book the pupil has been made acquainted... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimesconfined; Forbade, to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or ltcap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...deck'd,' is not an allowable rhyme, and what is the force or meaning of the word ' still erected nigh ?' ' Their lot forbade, — nor circumscrib'd alone, Their...virtues, but their crimes confin'd — Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, Or shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...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; 18. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...world, had humbler fortune circumscribed the sphere in which she exercised her vast abilities — " Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Christian Europe shrunk with horror, civilized Europe with a shuddering disgust, from her... | |
 | Matthew Richey - Clergy - 1839 - 394 pages
...righteousness ; and eagerly avail themselves of the lowest gibe, or the merest artifice of simulation, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame. Happy is it for them, when these struggles gain the ascendancy, — when conscience, assuming the majesty... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Гi/шгюi/ íyKpvтrrfiv та тrавos Kai à\авfа yvшaàv, Tfvvalas т aidas fpvвpov... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1839 - 154 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'tl alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confiVd Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Tvacriov cyKpinrrfiv TO ird6os Kal a\a6fa yvwfiav, Tfvvatas T alSa>s fpv6puv 6d\os avroff... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscribM alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confinM ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. XVII. XVIII. Tváiтiov fyKpvirTfiv тo iráuos Kai оXa&a yva>pav, Tfwaías т alSâs fpvdpov... | |
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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... 
