 | Thomas Gray - 1772 - 60 Seiten
...circumfcrib'd alone Their giowing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaugther to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | 1792 - 112 Seiten
...circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through flaughter to a throne ; And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth to hide; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame , Or heap... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 Seiten
...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 - 1799 - 270 Seiten
...forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confirt'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1799 - 368 Seiten
...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 P The name of king will not cover a crime from an all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood... | |
 | 1800 - 322 Seiten
...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 gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 Seiten
...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, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the... | |
 | 1800 - 460 Seiten
...lot forbad; norcircumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, , To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the... | |
 | Dio (Chrysostom.) - 1800 - 284 Seiten
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 Seiten
...forbade; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confiu'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame , Or heap the... | |
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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... 
