 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin-'d ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... | |
 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...Their lot forbade, 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 an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the record... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...Their lot forbad: nor circuuiscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... | |
 | Dio (Chrysostom.) - Greek literature - 1800 - 284 pages
...Cromwell experienced the truth of this observation, and Gray acknowledges it in his Elegy : Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind, (rf) This fancy of the Trojan shepherd was no bad fancy.' in my opinion; and would not have... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; And read their history in a nation's eyes. — This line is very beautiful. A great man,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...That virtue form'd, for every decent part, The healthy offspring that adorn'd their house. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...struggling, pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...Their growing virtues, hut their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hiire. To quench the hlushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignohle strife, Their soher wishes... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...virtues, but their crimes confin'd ? Forbade to wade- through slaughter to a throne, And shut the grates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide , To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shauie, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...forbad; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; • The ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide» To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the... | |
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Their lot forbade : 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... 
