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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 history in a nation's eyes... "
English Literature - Page 238
by Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 431 pages
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Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood

Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pages
...comparison, to reflect on the pious, though unnoticed poor, whom, to do deeds of fame and glory— " Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind!" The name of king will not cover a crime from an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the record...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest : Some Cromwell guiltless of his country'* blood. 1'lf applause of listening senates to command, The threats...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation s eyes, Their lot forbade: nor eircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : por circumscrib'd alone The;r growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

1814 - 310 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. TIi' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed aione Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined : Forbade...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation'* eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 8

John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 'I'll' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad...
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 550 pages
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; How obviously must the real Milton have been inglorious, if he had been mute ;...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, The' applause of listening senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade...
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Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - 1823 - 540 pages
...withstood; Some mute, inglorious Milton, here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade. How obviously must the real Milton have been inglorious, if he had been mute ; and...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood ; 'I'ii' us dissolv'd ; and forth In order came the grand infernal...Alone the antagonist of Heav'n, nor less Than Hell's Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade...
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