 | Philip Auslander - 2003 - 488 páginas
...is a successful performer because he is so fine an actor while being so entirely unhistrionic: "He nothing common did or mean/ Upon that memorable scene,/ But with his keener eye/ The ax's edge did try." Appropriate to his magnificent balance at the juncture of life and death is a pun... | |
 | Donald Hall - 2004 - 236 páginas
...execution of Charles, written by the poet later described by Royalists as a "bitter Republican": He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene:...But with his keener Eye The Axe's edge did try: Nor calTd the Gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head, Down,... | |
 | John Hines - 2004 - 230 páginas
...born The Tragick Scaffold might adorn: While 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 Axes edge did try. (from: Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland' [1650])... | |
 | Rebecca Fraser - 2005 - 868 páginas
...partisan of Cromwell's, was so impressed by the way the king had died that he immortalized it in verse: 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... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - 448 páginas
...choosing a 4-4-3-3 (rather than 4-3-4-3) form (N486; text from 1681, Bodleian MS Eng.Poet.d.49) : He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable Scene ; But with his keener eye The axes edge did trye. Nor call'd the Cods with vulgar spighi To vindicate his helplesse right ; But bow'd... | |
 | Thomas Page Anderson - 2006 - 252 páginas
...actor born 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, But bowed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 páginas
...the serene dignity and courage of which enduring myths are made. Well might Andrew Marvell write: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axe's edge did try: 197 Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head,... | |
 | Andreas Höfele - 2007 - 363 páginas
...actor born 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; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. (53-64) This... | |
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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. 
