 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called mind Knew never till this irksome night: Methought...mine ear one call'd me forth to walk With gentle This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The Capitol's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 550 pages
...did or mean, After 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. The heroic Marquis of Montrose is said to have written his master's epitaph with the point of his sword.... | |
 | 1840 - 760 pages
...mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called on God with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed !' ' So in a few years after wrote a most generous adversary, whose name is dear to every lover of... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...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...: But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." selves, then, into a belief that hewas uncompromisingly firm, of whom Clarendon wrote, that " he had... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
...did or mean, After 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. Charles was attended to the scaffold by Bishop Juxon, and by two of the gentlemen of his bedchamber,... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 pages
...did, or mean, After 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...But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 I have not spoken of the King's last sorrowful hours ; of his parting with his children ; of his frequent... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 624 pages
...or mean, After 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...But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 1 Aubrey de Vere, in poetry worthy of the time and the VOL. III. DD I have not spoken of the King's... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 624 pages
...did, or mean, After 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." l ' Aubrey do Vere, in poetry worthy of the time and the VOL. III. DD I have not spoken of the King's... | |
 | 1893 - 642 pages
...did nor mean Upon that memorable tcene, 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. It was not an obvious thought that a stanza of four linee would match a three-line stanza. If we count... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 pages
...did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : JVbr called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless...! 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... | |
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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. 
