 | 1907 - 684 pages
...Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland,' would not have penned these pathetic Unes : — 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 bow'd his comely head Down,... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 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,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 620 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,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 pages
...reason, or rather accompting duty a reason sufficient." CABEW'S Survey of ConueaB. Charles the First. " WHILE round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar Bpight To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 324 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...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: Abr calif d the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right! But bowed his comely head,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 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...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : JVbr called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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 his comely head Down,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 pages
...Survey of Conuraii. Charles the First " WHILE round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; Ho 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 spight To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1851 - 532 pages
..." While round, the aimed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean Upon the 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,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 444 pages
...Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While rmmd the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing...vulgar spight, To vindicate his helpless right : But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced... | |
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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... 
