 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands 55 Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did...scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; 60 Nor called the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...hope, He wove a net of such a scope 50 That Charles himself might chase To Carsbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands 55 Did clap their bloody hands; He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene ; But with... | |
 | Civil service - 1871 - 264 pages
...in which they were acquired. 10. Explain the meaning of the allusions in these passages : — (a) " He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe did try, And bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed." (6) " And on the neck of Fortune proud... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 470 pages
...opinions,— " 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 axe's edge did try ; Xor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...actor horne The tragic scaffold might adorne ; While round the armfed bands • 55 Did clap their bludy hands. He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did trye ; 60 Nor called the gods, with vulgar spight, To vindicate his helplesse right ; But bowed his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 898 pages
..." «re surprised that Bishop Heber did not quote Andrew t'i magnificent lines on Charles I. r — " m n axe'i edge did try ; Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spigbt To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 pages
...gentlemen who touched its edge while he was speaking ; " that may hurt me." In the words of Marvell : " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The ftxe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...what part He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bauds, Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean. Upon that memorable scene, But... | |
 | George Fyler Townesend - 1874 - 236 pages
...— " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, Amid that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try.f Maldou and Earl of Essex, 20th of April, 1661 ; 2. Henry, created a Knight of the Bath at the... | |
 | 1875 - 864 pages
...to celebrate Charles's royal demeanour on the scaffold — " He nothing common did or mean Upon the memorable scene, But, with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor calk-d the gods, with vulgar spiti-, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down... | |
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The tragic scaffold might adorn, 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 call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his... 
