 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. 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 history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 598 pages
...multitude* in the Halls of our National Legislature. " The applause of list'ning senotes 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 eye*, Their lot forbade." As I stood and contemplated the solemn... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...rest; aKt ,, BvhfTt - p Ji Bvkc - , bome Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. XVI. B shfp ? x The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, Bphc g . Bvhz ap To .scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, B shc ? x And read their history in a nation's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. And read their history in a nation's eyes, ' Tlieir lut forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. le coach, and wrapt In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet-capt, Tie And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of Hst'ning 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, Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...Lost, Dwight and men of his stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The...despise, / To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 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 his'try in a nation's eyes Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing... | |
 | Adam Potkay - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 276 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 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, Their lot forbad . . . (57—65 [stanzas 15—r/]) of the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood, 60 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, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing... | |
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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... 
