 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 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,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 pages
...death-throes of a dynasty, divisions of a nation ! 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... | |
 | Walter Money - 1884 - 328 pages
...erected before the banquetting house of Whitehall. "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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1884 - 476 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 with vulgar spite To vindicate Us helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 pages
...be the author, is truly amazing: — He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scone, lint with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, I'.ut laid his comely head Down as on a bed. What dignity,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 278 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, 4 with vulgar spite To vindicate 5 his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 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, Bat bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 218 pages
...to the scaffold from the Banqueting Hall in 1649. 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 Arnold - 1888 - 666 pages
...if indeed he be the author, is truly amazing : — 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 laid his comely head Down as ou a bed. Wh»t dignity, what... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1888 - 374 pages
...might adorn : While round the armed bands lie nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Hut with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the Gods, with ralgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. —... | |
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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. 
