 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...Their lot 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, 70 Or heap the... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 psl.
...Proverbs 9:12. See chap. 9, n. 1 . 14. I Cor., 1 6; i 3. [AC] 15. Luke I; 1 7. [AC] 1 6. "Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, / And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," ll. 67-68. 17. Cornelius Tacitus, TheAnnals... | |
 | 1996 - 160 psl.
...forbade; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. "THE MAN WITH THE HOE," EDWIN MARKHAM God made man in his own image, in the image of God made He him. —... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 psl.
...into endless night in order to gratify the ambition of the leaders of this revolt, who seek to '. . . wade through slaughter to a throne And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze ; it may be but a vision, but I will... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 psl.
...Their lot forbade; nor circumscribed alone Their glowing virtues, but their crimes conf1ned; 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... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - 1999 - 388 psl.
...lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone 65 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, 70 Or heap the... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 psl.
...Their lot 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... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 psl.
...Their Lot forbad: nor circumscrib'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... | |
 | John Reid - 2005 - 153 psl.
...Their 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... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - 2005 - 276 psl.
...THEIR lot 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, 70 To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
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The 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... 
