 | 1867 - 556 pages
...scarcely so well known as they deserve : '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.' No scholar can read these lines, without being irresistibly reminded of the fine passages in the '... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - England - 1867 - 344 pages
...the works of Andrew Marvel : — " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene j But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called...helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as it were, upon a bed." It may surprise some to find Charles the First included among the Warriors of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; 60 Nor called the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate...right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. — This was that memorable hour 65 Which first assured the forced power: So when they did design The... | |
 | William Hennessey Marah - Clergy - 1869 - 276 pages
...did nor mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless...right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' (Ode to Cromwell on his return from Ireland.) CHAPTER VI. The Restoration. — Dr. Juxon, Archbishop.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1869 - 822 pages
...memorable scene, Bat with his keener eye The axc's edge did try -, Nor cnll'd the gods with vulgar spito To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. Some of his later verses are tinged with a sort of despair of the Stuart dynasty, as, for instance,... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...of the same hall on a mask night : ' 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.' Charles had moreover availed himself with desperate dexterity of the opportunity of standing forth... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 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...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... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 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...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... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...common did or mean Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; 60 Nor called the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate...right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. —This was that memorable hour 65 Which first assured the forced power : So when they did design A... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 460 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...; 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,... | |
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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. 
