 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
 | 1861 - 624 Seiten
...Carisbrook's narrow case : ' That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 Seiten
...borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Hi 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 comely head Down,... | |
 | 1863 - 982 Seiten
...Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : 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 bed. - — This... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 Seiten
...; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, While round the armed baads, Did clap their bloody Hands : He nothing common did,...that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye, The axe'i edge did trye. Nor calTd the Gods with eulgar sptght. To vindicate his helplesse right : Sut... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1865 - 298 Seiten
...Cromwell's return from Ireland ends with an evident and a fine imitation of this ode : " He (Charles I.) nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene,...The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgai spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." DS CARMEN... | |
 | Alexander Dundas R. Cochrane-Wishart- Baillie (1st baron Lamington.) - 1865 - 342 Seiten
...Christian. " Cujus memoria in benedictione, preciosa in conspectu Domini mors sanctorum ejus." " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene." So perished the first martyr to the faith in kings; a noble life was here surrendered as a peaceoffering... | |
 | 1866 - 400 Seiten
...thus finely described by Andrew Marvel: — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody bauds, 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 514 Seiten
...Carisbrook's narrow case; That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right l But towed his comely head, Down,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 Seiten
...Carisbrook's narrow case ; That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 Seiten
...narrow case ; That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed hands He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...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. —This was... | |
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