 | Robert Owen - 1880 - 580 pages
...noblest tribute to his memory : " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with hie 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." I do not question... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1881 - 318 pages
...foe. It is Andrew Marvell who says of Charles : " 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 as... | |
 | 1881 - 456 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,... | |
 | William Beamont - 1881 - 284 pages
...around 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,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 402 pages
...was nobly sung by the poet 1 of his enemies : — 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 — 1 Andrew Marvell, Horatian Ode upon CrnmrvelVs rrturn from... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 440 pages
...mean, Upon that memorable scene, 1 Andrew Marvell, Horatian Ode upon CronuoeW* return from Ireland, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right — not, as he was called, a martyr, but still an example of... | |
 | 1883 - 540 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 518 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,... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - 1883 - 344 pages
...Cromwell, wrote of the Monarch of England : — •'He nothing common did nor 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... | |
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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. 
