Th' 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 Oral Study of Literature - Page 390by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1929 - 483 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...withstood ; Some mule inglorious Milton here may rest j Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command. The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbabe to wade... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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 threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 pages
...; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest j Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;- Forbade to waxle... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Til' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1857 - 256 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. " The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...read their history in a nation's eyes, " Their lot forbade; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 424 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 threats...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined • Forbade to wade... | |
 | George Lunt - 1857 - 276 pages
...the Almighty created and sustains the world, — the welfare and happiness of all Ms creatures — Th' applause of listening senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. And, if we are told, that this is only ideal, — never heard of in Calcutta, — never dreamed about... | |
 | William Oland Bourne - 1870 - 834 pages
...encouraged, characters that will do honor to human nature — that will have it in their power The applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. The experience of the Society having made the expediency of an amendment of the law apparent, the trustees... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...Dwight and men of his stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats...smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating comparison was... | |
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