 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 pages
...Charles's :h, or Cromwell's rise, is described with the most perfect skill and the t exquisite feeling. "He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spile, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down as upon a bed." " Much to the... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 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...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,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...hope, 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...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Ho nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1878 - 498 pages
...your aweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived." (m). " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try." (»). "With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest... | |
 | William Parsons Warburton - 1878 - 102 pages
...sentence was carried out before Whitehall Palace on the 3Oth January, 1649. He nothing humUe (should be " common ") did or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Then on the block he laid his head As though it was upon his bed. OBSERVATIONS. One or two examples... | |
 | 1878 - 808 pages
...how finally he said to the Man in the Mask "When I put out my hands thus ; " and how finally, While the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did, nor mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor call'd the gods in vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless might... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1880 - 536 pages
...ye came " The grand lines of the republican Andrew Marvell are the noblest tribute to his memory : " 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 Down,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1880 - 320 pages
...royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorne ; While round the armed bands 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 ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spight, To vindicate his helplesse right ; But bowed his comely... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...with hope, 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 bands, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...with hope, 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 bands, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate... | |
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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... 
