 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pàgines
...«MI/ shall teenol receive evil?"—Jon, " Th' applause of list'ning Senates to command. The threat* of pain and ruin to despise. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. And read hit histVy in a nation's eyes, H .» lot forbade i"— - ALT. from GRAY. "What tlui 1 no sculptur'd... | |
 | John Preston - 1834 - 312 pàgines
...virtues to IMMORTAL FAME !" Waltt. Thus may some have it in their pow'r, " Th' applause of lisl'ning Senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hisfry in a NATIONS' EYES." DIRECTIONS FOR TEACHING BY THIS BOOK. 1. Each scholar must have a slate... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pàgines
...to the unpractised student. Th' applause oflist'ning senates to command', The threats of pain rind ruin to despise', To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land', And read their hist'ry ia a nation's eyes', Their lot forbade'; nor circumscribed alone' Their growing virtues', but their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pàgines
...watch around his tomb-stone keeps ; But, when the evening stars appear, 734. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 412 pàgines
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we must admit that the chancellor... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 414 pàgines
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we must admit that the chancellor... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 590 pàgines
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th* applause of list'ning senates to command, The...land, * And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes •," — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we roust admit that the... | |
 | sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 pàgines
...successful toil in the public service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented to human view, we must admit that the chancellor... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pàgines
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pàgines
...stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating... | |
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Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes... 
