 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 comely head Down,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 pages
...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; Ho 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 spight To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 444 pages
...rmmd 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...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... | |
 | Archer Gurney - 1852 - 406 pages
...the armed bands * v 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 call'd the Gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. ANDREW MABVCT.L.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 pages
...nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable 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 head Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1853 - 430 pages
...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...vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Magnificent Edward, He who made the English renown, and... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...accorded to the fallen monarch his pity and respect. JJe 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 comely head Down,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...round the armed bands Did clap their hloody hands. He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Downe as upon a bed ! " There are... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1857 - 236 pages
...and a fine imitation of this ode : " He (Charles I.) nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowM his comely head Down, as upon a bed." CARMEN XXXVIII.... | |
 | C J. M - 1857 - 414 pages
...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 eall'd the gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down,... | |
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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 call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. 
