 | 1842 - 712 pages
...chase To Carisbrook's narrow case ; That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless risrht ; But bowed his comely head, Down,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...Andrew I'S magnificent lines on Charles I. : — " While round the armed hands Did clap their Moody rce that secret bower But those who watch the women's...Son of a slave" — the Pacha said — " From unbel callM the Gods with vulgar spight To »indicate his helpless right, But uow'u his comely head Down,... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 444 pages
...were probably participated by his class, and responded to by the nation. " "While round the armecl bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down,... | |
 | 1846 - 324 pages
...nothing common did, or mean, Upon the memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did trye, Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spight, To vindicate his helpless right : But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Marvell, too, is said to have written a most pathetic letter, in prose, on the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...-till delaying, M afraid to die 1' We are surprised that Bishop Heher did not quote Andrew Mir veil's magnificent lines on Charles I. : — " While round...vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a ued."J ' [See APPENDIX : Marino Falicro, Note C.] * If the Doge's prophecy seem remarkable,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 350 pages
...chase To Clarisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. The emphatic... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 298 pages
...chase To Clarisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd tke gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...well-known lines in his Alcaic Ode : "That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right : But bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 388 pages
...chase To Clarisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axes edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spile To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
...— While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down,... | |
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While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his... 
