| Robert Owen - 1880 - 580 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 scene, But with hie keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...hope, He wove a net of such a scope That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case ; lenlogie, and come again soon?" " Oh, here am I, a...-lxM.il Will gae to Glenlogie, and come again soon." ; Jíor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head... | |
| sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...hope, He wove a net of such a scope That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrooke's narrow case. That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold...memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's ed_ge did try : Nor called the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed... | |
| Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1881 - 364 pages
...devotion to his person and the Monarchy which has not yet ceased to reverberate in the hearts of men. " That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold...Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 396 pages
...was revived by the tragical nature of his end. As was nobly sung by the poet ' of his enemies : — 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 — 1 Andrew Marrell, Soratian Ode... | |
| 1880 - 354 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 : lie nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 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... | |
| William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 pages
...hope He wove a net of such a scope That Charles himself rnight chase To Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold...scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; But bow'd his comely head Down as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour Which first assured the... | |
| Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1884 - 476 pages
...devotion to hia person and the Monarchy which has not yet ceased to reverberate in 'he hearts of men. " That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold...Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 278 pages
...Charles himself might chase To Car'sbrooke's narrow case, That thence the royal actor borne The tragic 3 scaffold might adorn, While round, the armed bands...keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods, 4 with vulgar spite To vindicate 5 his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down as upon a bed.... | |
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