 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...noble verse ! which probably held out a light to Gray, in that passage of genuine sublimity, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Wakefield. IMITATIONS. Ver. 356. Then came the smallest, #c.] " I saw anone the fifth route,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824
...lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confîn'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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 299 psl.
...lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues ; but their crimes eonfin'd, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The strugglmg pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1825
...own country. * nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined : Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. OKAY'S Elegy in a Country Church-yard. been reluctant in the shedding of blood, his mercy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 2 psl.
...flame. thought by some, that in it Mr. Edwards has not done justice to his subject. 67. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind.] " And swam to empire through the purple flood." Pope's Temple of Fame, 347. These two verses... | |
 | 1826
...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 qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 134 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 346 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 - 446 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... | |
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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... 
