| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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