 He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene. But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.  Old Portraits and Modern Sketches - Page 108by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor ich my mind Knew never till this irksome night: Methought...walk With gentle voice, I thought it thine; it said, Heeding head, where they begun, Did fright the architects to run ; And yet in '/ml the State Foresaw... | |
 | Stephen - 1839 - 300 pages
...common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." REIGN OF NERO. The following passage of history will show,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 550 pages
...common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. The heroic Marquis of Montrose is said to have written his master's epitaph with the point of his sword.... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 760 pages
...mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called on God with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed !' ' So in a few years after wrote a most generous adversary, whose name is dear to every lover of... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless risrht ; But bowed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This...first assured the forced power ¡ So when they did desisn The capitol's first line, Л bleeding head, where they begun, Did fright the architects to run... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." This compassion, excited in the nation by the tragical... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his...right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Charles was attended to the scaffold by Bishop Juxon, and by two of the gentlemen of his bedchamber,... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his...: But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." selves, then, into a belief that hewas uncompromisingly firm, of whom Clarendon wrote, that " he had... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 620 pages
...common did, or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 1 Aubrey de Vere, in poetry worthy of the time and the VOL. III. DD I have not spoken of the King's... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 pages
...common did, or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 I have not spoken of the King's last sorrowful hours ; of his parting with his children ; of his... | |
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