 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Ho nothing common did or mean Upon 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. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So, when they did design The capitol's... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Québec (Province) - 1879 - 306 pages
...himself, and his sword is pure spirit also. " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed hia comely head Down as upon a bed." What a transit was that of his horizontal body alone, but just... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So, when they did design The capitol's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So, when they did design The capitol's... | |
 | William Beamont - History - 1881 - 284 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...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. CHAPTER XX. THE INTERREGNUM. AFTER the said tragedy, which had been enacted at Whitehall, the Parliament,... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 318 pages
...Andrew Marvell who says of Charles : " He nothing common did or mean ' Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, " Nor...right, But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed." Bas. Cowley speaks in a higher strain, though, of the monarch — "... to whom alone was given The... | |
 | Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1881 - 364 pages
...bands Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon 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." The Republican, Andrew Marvell. VOL. I. T CHAPTEE XV. INGLESANT remained in the Tower for several months... | |
 | English poetry - 1881 - 456 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...right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. — This was that memorable hour Which first assured the forced power : So when they did design The... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's ed_ge did try : Nor called the Gods, with vulgar spite,...right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. — This was that memorable hour Which first assured the forced power : So when they did design The... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power; So, when they did design The capitol's... | |
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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. 
