 | Archer Gurney - 1852 - 406 pages
...lost upon account, and none will know, How much to Heaven for thee, Great Charles, they owe. \TI7HILE round the armed bands * Did clap their bloody hands,...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. AS DBEW M ARVELL,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 pages
...chace To Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did tiy. Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight, To vindicate his helpless right : But bowed his comely... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armSd 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 bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1852 - 412 pages
...his head fell, severed by the executioner at one blow, 'a dismal groan issued from the crowd :' ' lie nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe-s edge did try : Nor called the gods, v, ii li vulgar spite, To vindicate his hoi pies« right... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1853 - 430 pages
...from the better part of the Commonwealth's-men. It is thus finely described by Andrew Marvell : — While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Magnificent Edward, He who made the English renown, and the fame of his Windsor... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...the death of the First Charles as necessary, accorded to the fallen monarch his pity and respect. JJe nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene...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,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...borne, The tnijii« sciiffoU might udonie, While round the armed band», Did clap their bloody hand» : He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The are'» edge did trye. ffor calTd the Gods mith vulgar sptyht, To »indicate his helplesse right : But... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 pages
...upon the death of the First Charles as necessary, accorded to the fallen monarch his pity and respect. He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with hie keener eye, The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate hie helpless... | |
 | C J. M - 1857 - 414 pages
...green wounds with which the attenuated and crippled limbs of the martyrs were covered. CHAPTER XXVI. " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor eall'd the gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down,... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1857 - 408 pages
...chase To Carisbrook's narrow case, That thence the royal actor home, 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,... | |
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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... 
