 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 470 pages
...opinions,— " 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 ; Xor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...chase To Carisbrooke's narrow case; 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 hio comely head Down,... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 pages
...death, and beheaded at Whitehall, 1649. His constancy and Christian conduct at the last were remarkable. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...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,... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...actor horne The tragic scaffold might adorne ; While round the armfed bands • 55 Did clap their bludy hands. He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did trye ; 60 Nor called the gods, with vulgar spight, To vindicate his helplesse right ; But bowed his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 898 pages
..." «re surprised that Bishop Heber did not quote Andrew t'i magnificent lines on Charles I. r — " m n axe'i edge did try ; Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spigbt To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 pages
...have envied it at the close of his usurpation. Marvell, a lover of liberty, has done it justice : — "He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his h'jlpless right, But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...chase To C'arisbrook's narrow case; 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bauds, Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did,...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 - 1874 - 496 pages
...envied it at the close of his usurpation. Marvell, a lover of liberty, has done it justice : — " He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...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 as... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 pages
...gentlemen who touched its edge while he was speaking ; " that may hurt me." In the words of Marvell : " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The ftxe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd... | |
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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... 
