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" Th' applause of list'ning 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... "
The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry - Page 145
1806 - 304 pages
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin 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...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Miltonf here may rest ; Some Cromwell,J guiltless of his country's blood. 16. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes ; 17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues,...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...breast', The little tyrant of his fields withstood';— Some mute', inglorious Milton', here may rest'; Some Cromwell', guiltless of his country's blood'....land', And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes', Their lot forbade';* nor circumscribed alone' Their growing virtues', but their crimes confined'; Forbade'...
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Elegy written in a country church-yard, with versions in the Gr., Lat., Germ ...

Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...relevé les débris, Et recueilli l'éloge en des yeux attendris, XVI. Т1Г applause of listening senates to command ; The threats of pain and ruin...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Moîpai ejrfкXuxruvт'' apfтаis ovx ÎA«u avтâv EK фóта où тч/шv,...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their...
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...great "virtue" but finally comes to signify the sheer negativity of individual lusts and ambitions: Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The...smiling land, And read their his'try in a nation's eyes Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade...
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The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the ...

Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating...
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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

Adam Potkay - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 276 pages
...Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th'applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad . . . (57—65 [stanzas 15—r/]) of the Commonwealth, in contrast to the peasants...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood, 60 Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade...
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Memorial Tributes Delivered in Congress: John Cornelius Stennis, 1901-1995 ...

Legislators - 1996 - 160 pages
...ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...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...
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