 | History - 1883 - 538 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. MARVELL. See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame ! POPE. Unknown to Cromwell as to me Was Cromwell's... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 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. Aiid he who wrote this was Cromwell's Latin Secretary ! — and Cromwell's other Latin Secretary was... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - Adventure and adventurers - 1883 - 344 pages
...of the Monarch of England : — •'He nothing common did nor 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." JEREMY TAYLOR. "THE MAN WHO, STRETCH'D IN isis' CALM RETEEAT, TO BOOKS AND STUDY GIVES SEVEN YEARS... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - History - 1883 - 704 pages
...ocean. 1 " He nothing cnmmuu did or mean Upon that memorable scene ; But with hin keener eye The ax's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed."— Marvell. When the executioner lifted the severed head... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 238 pages
...nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene ; . . . Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To 8 vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his 'comely head Down as upon a bed. The king's body was borne into Whitehall Palace, where it was exposed to public view for some days.... | |
 | Walter Money - Great Britain - 1884 - 328 pages
...the banquetting house of Whitehall. "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." His conduct in reference to the Battles of Newbury, as we have here traced it, illustrates both the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...of a dynasty, divisions of a nation ! 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. Pass, once again, to the Masque of Hymen. Through those epithalamial hymns which sounded in the ears... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...of a dynasty, divisions of a nation ! 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. Pass, once again, to the Masque of Hymen. Through those epithalamial hymns which sounded in the ears... | |
 | Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1884 - 476 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 the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate Us helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." Ike Republican, Andrew Marrett.... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 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." Some good, strong lines occur in his poem upon Milton's " Paradise Lost," which has a special interest... | |
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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. 
