 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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, Or heap the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiting laud, And read their liist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes connn'd ; !'(>: i) ,-.l to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind;... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'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 roank nd; The struggling pangs of conscious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...: nor circumscrili'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confm'd; Forbad to wade through nknown its worth ; In full content he found the truest wealth; In struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; B... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; XVIII.... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...nation's eyes, Th' applause of list'niug senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'dForbad to wade through slaughter to a throne And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Or heap... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...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, Or heap the... | |
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Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth... 
