 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 ページ
...lfc.] A noble verse ! which probably held out a light to Gray, in that passage of genuine sublimity, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Wakefield. IMITATIONS. Ver. 358. Then came the smallest, lfc.'] " I saw anone the fifth route,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 428 ページ
...#c.] A noble verse! which probably held out a light to Gray, in that passage of genuine sublimity, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Wakefield. IMITATIONS. Ver. 356. Then came the smallest, Sfc.] " I saw anone the fifth route,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 ページ
...Jean Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confîn'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy ou mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 ページ
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues ; but their crimes eonfin'd, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The strugglmg pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 ページ
...the Muse's flame. thought by some, that in it Mr. Edwards has not done justice to his subject. 67. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind.] " And swam to empire through the purple flood." Pope's Temple of Fame, 347. These two verses... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1825 - 454 ページ
...his own country. * nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined : Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. OKAY'S Elegy in a Country Church-yard. been reluctant in the shedding of blood, his mercy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 ページ
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor eireumserib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their erimes eonfin'd ; eonfess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, I'nseen, unh of merey on mankind ; The struggling pangs of eonseious truth to hide, To queneh the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 ページ
...ve'ne'ration. Jean Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confm'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingeniions Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flamc.... | |
 | 1826 - 310 ページ
...eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 ページ
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial oflerings to the great from the poetic tribe : — ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free air s*. Pain. Ay, marry, what of these... | |
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The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... 
