 | George Mogridge - 1799
...lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind!" The name of king will not cover a crime from an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Literary Criticism - 1799 - 186 pages
...lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin-'d ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - Poetry - 1800 - 304 pages
...Their lot forbad: nor circuuiscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Dio (Chrysostom.), Gilbert Wakefield - 1800 - 256 pages
...Cromwell experienced the truth of this observation, and Gray acknowledges it in his Elegy : Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind, (rf) This fancy of the Trojan shepherd was no bad fancy.' in my opinion; and would not have... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 223 pages
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 114 pages
...lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; And read their history in a nation's eyes. — This line is very beautiful. A great man,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pages
...That virtue form'd, for every decent part, The healthy offspring that adorn'd their house. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling, pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 304 pages
...Tiieir lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coafin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1806 - 380 pages
...lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Tfieir growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes cf ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1807
...incidents and those actions, which constitute vulgar greatness, and to dwell slightly upon the horrid atrocities of those, who wade through slaughter to...gates of mercy on mankind ; who cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; wiiose foot-steps are traced in the blood of myriads of their fellow-creatures... | |
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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... 
