 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; 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,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Their lot forbade : 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... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side ;"... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...command, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;— The struggling pangs of conscious Truth... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...Their lot forbade ; 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,... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 574 pages
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side;" where... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...lot forbade : 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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coufin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy ou mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; 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,... | |
 | Edmund Dorr Griffin - Europe - 1831 - 478 pages
...never made a hero. If by heroism is meant the bodying forth of that fearful ambition, which seeks " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," and which, if its power equalled its will, would appropriate to itself the crown of Omnipotence,... | |
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The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their... 
