 | John Preston - Arithmetic - 1834 - 312 pages
...virtues to IMMORTAL FAME !" Waltt. Thus may some have it in their pow'r, " Th' applause of lisl'ning Senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hisfry in a NATIONS' EYES." DIRECTIONS FOR TEACHING BY THIS BOOK. 1. Each scholar must have a slate... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...to the unpractised student. Th' applause oflist'ning senates to command', The threats of pain rind ruin to despise', To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land', And read their hist'ry ia a nation's eyes', Their lot forbade'; nor circumscribed alone' Their growing virtues', but their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...watch around his tomb-stone keeps ; But, when the evening stars appear, 734. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 590 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th* applause of list'ning senates to command, The...land, * And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes •," — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we roust admit that the... | |
 | sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we must admit that the chancellor... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 414 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we must admit that the chancellor... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 412 pages
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we must admit that the chancellor... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Miltonf here may rest ; Some Cromwell,J guiltless of his country's blood. 16. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes ; 17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...breast', The little tyrant of his fields withstood';— Some mute', inglorious Milton', here may rest'; Some Cromwell', guiltless of his country's blood'....read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes', Their lot forbade';* nor circumscribed alone' Their growing virtues', but their crimes confined'; Forbade' to... | |
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Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes... 
