 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...  Lives of Northern Worthies - Seite 97von Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 389 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1809 - 878 Seiten
...Lord Protector Cromwell, entitled, " An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland." While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing...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 as upon a beil. SIR RICHARD STEELE.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 Seiten
...Lord Protector Cromwell, entitled] " An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland." While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing...Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The'axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spitf To vindicate his helpless right, But... | |
 | 1834 - 566 Seiten
...the " Royal Actor," for so he also styles him, even in addressing Cronlwell. Marvel speaks : — " 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 spite, t To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely... | |
 | 1838 - 504 Seiten
...verse, would have shone as a poet. Speaking of the death of Charles I., he says, — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : He nothing...scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe's edge did trye : Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helplesse right ; l'ii! bow'd his comely... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 Seiten
...Cromwell. Alluding to the execution of the monarch, he says : — " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean,...axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head THE SENSE OF THE NATION. IN the year... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 436 Seiten
...Cromwell. Alluding to the execution of the monarch, he says :— " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene; The axe's edge did try, Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...Carisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round old si called the Gods, with vulgar spite, To. vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 Seiten
...Bishop Heber did not quote Andrew Marvell's magnificent lines on Charles I. : •— " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing...vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Do\vn, as upon a bed." — E.] Defy all codes to image or to name them ; Then,... | |
 | Charles I (King of England) - 1832 - 372 Seiten
...have witnessed what he describes, writes of this scene : — " He nothing common did nor 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 as upon a bed." Ode to Cromvielt,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 350 Seiten
...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...vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But how'd his comely head Down, as upon a hed." — E.] Defy all codes to image or to name them ; Then,... | |
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