| John Addington Symonds - 1888 - 232 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 Hill Green - 1888 - 684 pages
...contempt or passion, yet at the last, in MarvelFs words, ' 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 cornel}7 head Down,... | |
| James Kendall Hosmer - 1888 - 642 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... | |
| Stephen Orgel - 1975 - 116 pages
...bloody hands; He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axes edge did try: Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head Down, as upon a Bed.8 The player king produced, even in Cromwell's loyal retainer,... | |
| Robert Fraser - 1986 - 368 pages
...salute the energy of those who must supplant them: 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 spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down... | |
| Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 pages
...excessive pathos giving eredit where eredit is due: 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 spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...execution: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axes edge did try: Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head, Down as upon a Bed. ('An Horatian Ode', lines 38, 57-64) Charles's bearing at... | |
| Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 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,... | |
| Greg Clingham - 1998 - 212 pages
...Marvell, writes: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axes edge did try: Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head, Down as upon a Bed. ("An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland" 11.... | |
| John Macleod - 2001 - 430 pages
...recording the final moments of 'that man of blood': 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. He had taken many... | |
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