 | 1861 - 624 páginas
...might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : ' He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene : But with his keener...eye The axe's edge did try : ' Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' This... | |
 | Charles I (King of England) - 1861 - 366 páginas
...have witnessed 'vhat he describes, writes of this scene: — . " He nothing common did nor mean After 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 bovv'd his comely head Down... | |
 | John Forster - 1862 - 432 páginas
...Charles is said to have entered upon the icaffold through the centre window of the latter building. 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 as upon a bed ! — So, in a... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 páginas
...borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, While round the armed baads, Did clap their bloody Hands : He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe'i edge did trye. Nor calTd the Gods with eulgar sptght. To vindicate his helplesse right : Sut... | |
 | 1866 - 400 páginas
...finely described by Andrew Marvel: — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody bauds, 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 514 páginas
...borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene,...axe's edge did try: Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right l But towed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 páginas
...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right I But bowed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 páginas
...also. " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as npon a bed." What a transit was that of his horizontal body alone, but just cut down from the gallows-tree... | |
 | 1867 - 556 páginas
...a quarter, on the execution of Charles the First, are scarcely so well known as they deserve : 'He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene,...axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' No scholar can... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1867 - 344 páginas
...from the works of Andrew Marvel : — " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene j 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, as it were, upon a bed." It... | |
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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 called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed. 
