 | George Daniel - 1835 - 376 pàgines
...patriot, Andrew Marvel, described the royal martyr to Puritanism : " He nothing common did or mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head, Down... | |
 | George Daniel - 1835 - 366 pàgines
...patriot, Andrew Marvel, described the royal martyr to Puritanism : " He nothing common did or mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head, Down... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1835 - 348 pàgines
...round the armed hands Did clap their hloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorahle scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But how'd his comely head Down,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 350 pàgines
...Marvell's magnificent lines on Charles I. : — '* While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean. Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor calPd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Dp\vn,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pàgines
...borne, The tragic scaflbld might adorne, While round the armed hands, 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 trye. Nor caird the Gods with vulgar spighJ, To vindicate his he/plesse right : But bote'd his comely... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pàgines
...adorne, WICile round the armed bands, Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or meaa, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did tryc. Nor caWd the Gods with vulgar spiyht, To vindicate his helplesse right ; But bow'd his comely... | |
 | 402 pàgines
...execution of the Monarch, he says : — " While round the armed bands' Did clasp their bloody bands, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right. But bow'd his comely head Pown :•--... | |
 | 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
...at a single blow, one dismal, universal groan issued from the crowd ; ' He nothing common did, nor 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... | |
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While round the armed bands 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... 
