 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...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 Etrugglmg pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine... | |
 | English essays - 1844 - 742 pages
...forbade ; nor circumscribed alone His growing virtues, but bis crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." The youthful disposition of Richard the Third may form a good subject for ingenious speculation, but such... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...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, Or heap the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through rybody, though she was not indeed the mistress of this great house, struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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, Or heap the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing...virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. XVIII. The struggling pangs... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...to command ; The threats of pain and ruin to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, XVI. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing...virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. j XVII. The struggling pangs... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing virtues/, but their crimes confin'ed ; Forbade to wade through slau'ghter/ to a thr'one, And shut the gates of me'rcy/ on manki'nd ; The struggling pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous sh'ame ; Or heap... | |
 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1845 - 298 pages
...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 name of king will not cover a crime from art' all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...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 ; Or heap the... | |
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Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth... 
