 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined j 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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 ingenious Shame,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...forbade : nor circumscribed alone 30 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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 324 pages
...childhood, who have showered the richest gifts of their genius upon those fierce heroes, who were ready to " Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Revelation. And he, whose pen is moved by pulses from a Christian heart, will not fear to... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 372 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 ; 18. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumsciibed 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,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade 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 Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 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,... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - History - 1995 - 298 pages
...on Proverbs 9:12. See chap. 9, n. 1 . 14. I Cor., 1 6; i 3. [AC] 15. Luke I; 1 7. [AC] 1 6. "Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, / And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," ll. 67-68. 17. Cornelius Tacitus, TheAnnals... | |
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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... 
