 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 psl.
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscribM alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confinM ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. XVII. XVIII. Tváiтiov fyKpvirTfiv тo iráuos Kai оXa&a yva>pav, Tfwaías т alSâs fpvdpov... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 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. Гi/шгюi/ íyKpvтrrfiv та тrавos Kai à\авfа yvшaàv, Tfvvalas т aidas fpvвpov... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 488 psl.
...Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, hut 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... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 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 ; 18 The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 psl.
...| 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1841 - 416 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 j The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 psl.
...nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade througli 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... | |
 | 1866 - 662 psl.
...snn will sink into endless night 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 a far other and brighter vision hefore my gaze. It may he but a vision, hut I will... | |
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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... 
