 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 ページ
...vene'ration. Jean Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coufin'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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 ページ
...pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smibng land, And read their history in a nation's ld In bearded majesty appear. In the midst a form...Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-line ; Her lion \vade through slaughter to a throne, And shut me gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 ページ
...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...virtues, but their crimes confined ;- Forbade to wade throagh slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious... | |
 | Edmund Dorr Griffin - 1831 - 478 ページ
...never made a hero. If by heroism is meant the bodying forth of that fearful ambition, which seeks " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," and which, if its power equalled its will, would appropriate to itself the crown of Omnipotence,... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - 1831 - 220 ページ
...public ostentation, princely patronage, and the dazzling homage of Genius and Taste, still intent " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride, " With incense, kindled at the Muse's flame." But THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE would have remained almost, if not altogether, in the same degraded and... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 ページ
...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...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, !,h, • ;,,°'i,--P. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 ページ
...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes,— 17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; — 18. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 ページ
...eyes, Their lot forbade. Nor circumscrib'd alone 6f> Their growing virtues, but their crimes, confm'd Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne And shut the gates of mercy on mankindwly Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, 20 Their sober wishes never learn 'd to strty... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 ページ
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, hut their crimes connn'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.— Grag. Day. vni. C'al. 24. filrtlls. Saint John the Baptist, BC 4, Hebron, in Paleitine.... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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 quench^the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled... | |
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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... 
