 That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : 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 call'd the Gods,...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 2861868Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | English confessors - 1860 - 380 pagine
...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. 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 spile, To vindicate his helpless right ! Eut bowed his comely head, Down,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pagine
...case ; That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...right; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. —This was that memorable hour Which first assured the forced power : So when they did design The... | |
 | Charles I (King of England) - 1861 - 366 pagine
...have witnessed 'vhat he describes, writes of this scene: — . " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bovv'd his comely head Down as upon a bed." Ode to Cromwell, on his Return from Ireland. ' History... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pagine
...might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : ' He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene : But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : ' Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pagine
...borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Hi 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,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1865 - 298 pagine
...Cromwell's return from Ireland ends with an evident and a fine imitation of this ode : " He (Charles I.) nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene,...The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgai spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." DS CARMEN... | |
 | 1866 - 400 pagine
...thus finely described by Andrew Marvel: — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody bauds, 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 514 pagine
...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. 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 l But towed his comely head, Down,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 pagine
...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right I But bowed his comely head, Down,... | |
 | 1867 - 532 pagine
...such a quarter, on the execution of Charles the First, are scarcely so well known as they deserve : '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 bowed his comely head Down... | |
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