 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 psl.
...forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing virtues/, but their crimes confin'ed ; Forbade to wade through slau'ghter/ to a thr'one, And shut the gates of me'rcy/ on manki'nd ; The struggling pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous sh'ame ; Or heap... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 pangs5 of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 psl.
...felony? — Yet the coincidence between Ellesmere and Gray could hardly be accidental : " Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." law had taken its course ; yet, according to the understand- CHAP. ing which had been entered... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 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. j XVII. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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... | |
 | Samuel Simon Schmucker - 1846 - 528 psl.
...but it was a shield of faith ; for his was a religion of peace and good will to men, and forbade "To wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Nor had the Jews any ground for considering Jesus as an enthusiast. The moderation uniformly... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1989 - 228 psl.
...the storm — who are not honest, who 90 wear humanity as a mask, whose aim is power, and who 'would wade through slaughter to a throne and shut the gates of mercy on mankind.'2 I have considered the United States as owing to the world an example, and that this is their... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 psl.
...Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade 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 Guillory - 1993 - 422 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... | |
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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... 
