 | Thomas Warton - 1753 - 164 страници
...o'er a fmiling land. And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd : Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 страници
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing -virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 страници
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through ftaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 страници
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad ; nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd...Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth to hide, To quench the... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 308 страници
...fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes, • * * Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd...Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, ./Emu'lus Hamdeni hic aliquis requiefcat agreftis, Quern patriae... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 страници
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad ; nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on. mankind, The ftrnggling pangs of confcions truth... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 страници
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | 1765 - 414 страници
...a fmiling land, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes (9) Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 страници
...o'er a fmiling land, And read their hiftory in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 страници
...read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes, A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 115 Their lot forbad : nor clrcumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth... | |
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Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise,... 
