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" 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 390
by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1929 - 483 pages
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Selections from the British Classics: Chaucer and Spenser ...

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...
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The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith

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...
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades

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...
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Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

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...
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Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities

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...
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Class Book of Poetry: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English ...

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...
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Three Eras of New England, and Other Addresses: With Papers Critical and ...

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...
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History of the Public School Society of the City of New York: With Portraits ...

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...
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Best Remembered Poems

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...
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The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the ...

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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