| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 psl.
...lot 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... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 psl.
...lot 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... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 292 psl.
...lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd 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 struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
| Thomas Burton - 1828 - 562 psl.
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side ;"... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 psl.
...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;— The struggling pangs of conscious Truth... | |
| Thomas Burton - 1828 - 574 psl.
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side;" where... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 psl.
...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 struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap the... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 psl.
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coufin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy ou mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 psl.
...lot 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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 psl.
...nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;- Forbade to wade throagh 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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