 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...record of the bloody triumphs of heroes and princes, the solemn tale of all who have— " Swept through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;" the histories of Ambition, Revenge, and that almost indefinable cat-like malice, so sanguinary and depraved,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...nor circumscrib'd 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 struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide : To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...nor circumsciibed 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 struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...President of the Democrats showed himself the ally of the Autocrats of the East who " wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." •\ The good things of Mr. Polk's administration we have spoken of and duly honored ; the abomination thereof... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 676 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 confln'd ; Forbad to wade through daughter to a thront, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." In... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...of Criticism," here added the two following stanzas, to supply what he deemed a defect in the poem : Forbad to wade thro' 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, 70 Or heap the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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 struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...: 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 struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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 struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wa"de 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... 
