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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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Ben Jonson

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...
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Works of Thomas Hill Green: Miscellanies and memoir

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,...
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The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane, Governor of Massachusetts Bay ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance

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,...
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West African Poetry: A Critical History

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...
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The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal

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...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

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...
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Zeitgenosse Horaz: der Dichter und seine Leser seit zwei Jahrtausenden

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,...
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Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century

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....
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Dynasty: The Stuarts: 1560-1807

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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