 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...«MI/ shall teenol receive evil?"—Jon, " Th' applause of list'ning Senates to command. The threat* of pain and ruin to despise. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. And read hit histVy in a nation's eyes, H .» lot forbade i"— - ALT. from GRAY. "What tlui 1 no sculptur'd... | |
 | John Preston - Arithmetic - 1834 - 312 pages
...virtues to IMMORTAL FAME !" Waltt. Thus may some have it in their pow'r, " Th' applause of lisl'ning Senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hisfry in a NATIONS' EYES." DIRECTIONS FOR TEACHING BY THIS BOOK. 1. Each scholar must... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...rest'; Some Cromwell', guiltless of his country's blood'. Th' applause of list'ning srnatrs to command', The threats of pain and ruin to despise', To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land', And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes', bTshll'dr4n— n°t. tshll'drun. «J6k'und. ^*re. «Tr6'fh.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...his childhood there No watch around his tomb-stone keeps ; But, when the evening stars appear, 734. The applause of listening senates to command, The...to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing... | |
 | sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 590 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th* applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, * And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes •," — if ever this picture was personified, and presented... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 414 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 412 pages
...service. If, indeed, Gray's lines were ever realized, when he says, — " Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise ; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes ;" — if ever this picture was personified, and presented... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...country's blood. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,— And read their history in a nation's eyes, The applause of listening senates to command,— The threats of pain and ruin to despise,— Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed, alone, Their growing virtues,—but their crimes confined; Forbade... | |
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Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes... 
