 Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...  Hydriotaphia - Page 136by Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 146 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...preside over the deliberations of his countrymen in the halls of Congress; — 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 his history in a nation's eyes? At the age of fifteen, Mr. Clay entered the office of Peter... | |
 | 1857 - 538 pages
...had realized the reward so exquisitely expressed in those lines of Gray: " The applause of listening Senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...despise,— To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read his history in a nation's eyes." Mr. CLAY'S views in regard to the public lands were matured... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...his rude footsteps echoed round, Break not the silence of the dead. 734. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;Forbade... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...instantly felt ; his, and his alone, it is " The applause of listening senates to command, The tnreats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read his history in a nation's eyes ! " " I can conceive," says Cicero, " of no accomplishment... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...great "virtue" but finally comes to signify the sheer negativity of individual lusts and ambitions: Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The...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 virtues, but their... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...stamp are now mere "mute inglorious Milton[s]," elitists who had sought "the applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin...smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes"—but failed. 28 Much of Dwight's motivation for making this self-deprecating comparison was... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 pages
...Some mute 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...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 Commonwealth,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood, 60 Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...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 virtues, but their... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...dauntless breast The little tyrant of his f1elds withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th'...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade; nor circumscribed alone Their glowing virtues, but their... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - 1999 - 388 pages
...withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 60 Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The...scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone 65 Their growing virtues, but... | |
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