 While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; 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...  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 259by Henry Reed - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...— While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing 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 bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 678 pages
...Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland,' would not have penned these pathetic Unes : — He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...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,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 624 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 642 pages
...did nor mean Upon that memorable tcene, 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. It was not an obvious thought that a stanza of four linee would match a three-line... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 620 pages
..." While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands : He nothing 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 bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 pages
..." While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands : He nothing 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 bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...accompting duty a reason sufficient." CABEW'S Survey of ConueaB. Charles the First. " WHILE round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common...with his keener eye, The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar Bpight To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...narrow case; That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: Abr calif d the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right! But bowed his comely head,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...narrow case ; That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : JVbr called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ! But bowed his comely head.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common...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,... | |
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