 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling laud, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their...confin'd ; -, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a thronCi And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1823 - 258 páginas
...names, and in their conduct plainly shew, that, had they but a field of action, they would every day " Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." This, however, a gracious Providence ofttimes forbids, and in pity to the human race cuts... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 páginas
...to despise, Elegy. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing...shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling; panjs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrne of Luxury... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, read emperor with abut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 páginas
...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 páginas
...#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 páginas
...Romains se fussent honores : son nom est, en Angleterre, Pobjet de la plus haute vénération. 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's 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... | |
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Th' 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... 
