 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, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes...  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 241by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read then- history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forbade,...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. I* Par from the madding... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...Milton here may rest — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. For from the madding... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, 8 To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 pages
...Milton here may rest — Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening Senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, 3 l A writer In the ninth volume of the Quarterly Review cttea the following passage from... | |
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