 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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... | |
 | Mark R. Schwen, Dorothy C. Bass - 2006 - 580 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... | |
 | Stephen Fry - 2006 - 396 psl.
...Madding Crowd and Paths of Glory) as well as providing some memorably stirring phrases: Forbade to wade4 through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; 4 You may think 'forbade to wade' is a clumsy internal rhyme - actually 'forbade' was (and... | |
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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... 
