 The 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...  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 241by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Waugh - Lancashire (England) - 1855 - 282 pages
...senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling hind, And read their history in a nation's eyes, " Their...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muae't flame. "Far from the maddening... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined j Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 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...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1855 - 468 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...alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined f— • Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 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...to .hide ; 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...inglorious Millon here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, 3 1 A writer in the ninth volume of the Quarterly Review cites the following passage from... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...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...through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates pf mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling Innd, lls, His limbs invested in their gorgeous plait -...wife, his children, left To struggle with adversity : tho blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incensó kindled at the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest j Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command. The threats of pain and ruin to...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbabe to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. 26 Far from the madding... | |
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