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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. "
Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life - Page 209
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - 1857 - 408 pages
...the armed bands, Did clap their bloody hands : 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 with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down,...
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Once a Week, Volume 12

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 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 bis comely head Down as upon a btd. Clarendon's description is as follows : — "The king asked...
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The brave old English confessors

English confessors - 1860 - 380 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 spile, To vindicate his helpless right ! Eut bowed his comely head, Down,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands 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. —This was...
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The Trials of Charles the First, and of Some of the Regicides: With ...

Charles I (King of England) - 1861 - 366 pages
...'vhat he describes, writes of this scene: — . " He nothing common did nor mean After 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 bovv'd his comely head Down as upon a bed." Ode to Cromwell,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 113

1861 - 624 pages
...the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : ' He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene : But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : ' Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down...
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Horace, with Engl. notes by J.E. Yonge, Volume 1

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1865 - 298 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 vulgai spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." DS CARMEN...
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Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 pages
...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right I But bowed his comely head, Down,...
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The King and the Commons: Cavalier and Puritan Song, Volume 1

Henry Morley - 1868 - 284 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 call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. This was that...
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Memoirs of Archbishop Juxon and His Times: With a Sketch of the Archbishop's ...

William Hennessey Marah - 1869 - 276 pages
...what he describes, writes of this scene : — 'He nothing common did nor mean After 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 bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' (Ode to Cromwell...
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