| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But row's next design, But of offence and trouble, which...mine ear one call'd me forth to walk With gentle This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The Capitol's... | |
| Stephen - 1839 - 300 pages
...bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." REIGN OF NERO. The following passage of history will show,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 382 pages
...bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. ten his master's epitaph with the point of his sword. The lines attributed to him, and rendered thus... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 760 pages
...mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called on God with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed !' ' So in a few years after wrote a most generous adversary, whose name is dear to every lover of... | |
| Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called...with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, Down, as upon a bed. But bowed his comely head The heroic Marquis of Montrose is said to have written... | |
| United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...armed bands 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...gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless risrht ; But bowed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...armecl bands 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...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." This compassion, excited in the nation by the tragical... | |
| 1847 - 810 pages
...bands 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...: But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." selves, then, into a belief that hewas uncompromisingly firm, of whom Clarendon wrote, that " he had... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Charles was attended to the scaffold by Bishop Juxon, and by two of the gentlemen of his bedchamber,... | |
| Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 pages
...bands Did clasp their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 I have not spoken of the King's last sorrowful hours ; of his parting with his children ; of his... | |
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