 Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a...  Andrew Marvell - Pàgina 66per Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 241 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case; But we quickly found out, for who could mistake her? That she came This was that memorable hour, Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The Capitol's... | |
 | 1839 - 300 pàgines
...— " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." REIGN OF NERO. The following passage of history will show,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 550 pàgines
...— While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. The heroic Marquis of Montrose is said to have written his master's epitaph with the point of his sword.... | |
 | 1840 - 760 pàgines
...mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called on God with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed !' ' So in a few years after wrote a most generous adversary, whose name is dear to every lover of... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 444 pàgines
...were probably participated by his class, and responded to by the nation. " "While round the armecl bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." This compassion, excited in the nation by the tragical... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pàgines
...reality. We need not wish to deceive our• We allude to Marvell's well-known lines in his Alcaic Ode : "That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold...: But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." selves, then, into a belief that hewas uncompromisingly firm, of whom Clarendon wrote, that " he had... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pàgines
...— While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Charles was attended to the scaffold by Bishop Juxon, and by two of the gentlemen of his bedchamber,... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 pàgines
..." While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 I have not spoken of the King's last sorrowful hours ; of his parting with his children ; of his... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 620 pàgines
..." While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 1 Aubrey de Vere, in poetry worthy of the time and the VOL. III. DD I have not spoken of the King's... | |
 | 1907 - 678 pàgines
...Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland,' would not have penned these pathetic Unes : — He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Such evidence as this, to which more might be added, is... | |
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