 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...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 106by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, ool along the public way, Delighted with my bauble...wrapt In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet-capt, Tie Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...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 and ruin to...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife : Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; J Along the cool scquester'd vale of life -i rThey kept... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequestered... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray : Along the cool, sequestered... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...To scatter plen'ty/ o'er a smiling la'nd, And read their luVtory/ in a nation's ey'es ; Their 1'ot forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing...pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous sh'ame ; Or heap the shrine of lux'ury/ and pride, With incense kin'dled/ at... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...resisted King Charles the First's usurpation of power. 128 AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The applause of listening senates to command, The...shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muses' flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...Milton, here may rest — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. TV applause of list ning senates to command, • The threats of pain and ruin...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er...incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequestered... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...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...strife, Their sober wishes never learn' d to stray ; 106 ELEGY. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forhade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their soher wishes never learn' d to stray ; 106 BLKGY. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They... | |
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