 | 1863 - 640 str.
...sun will sink into endless night to gratify the ambition of the leaders of this revolt, who seek " to wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind." (Cheers.) I have another and far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1844 - 392 str.
...Shipwrecks. — Fireworks. As I have but little love or loyalty for such monarchs as delight in war, who " Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;" and very little inclination to regard battles and sieges, and sacking of cities, and great... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1844 - 370 str.
...Shipwrecks. — Fireworks. As I have but little love or loyalty for such monarchs as delight in war, who " Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;" and very little inclination to regard battles and sieges, and sacking of cities, and great... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 str.
...Their 1'ot forba'de ; nor circumscribed alon'e Their growing virtues/, but their crimes confin'ed ; Forbade to wade through slau'ghter/ to a thr'one,...pan'gs/ of conscious truth/ to hid'e To quench the blus hes/ of ingenuous sh'ame ; Or heap the shrine of lux'ury/ and pride, With incense kin'dled/ at... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 str.
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs5 of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 str.
...— "Their lot forbade, nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through- slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind !" The name of king will not cover a crime from art' all-seeing eye, nor blot out a deed of blood from the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 str.
...for felony? — Yet the coincidence between Ellesmere and Gray could hardly be accidental : " Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." law had taken its course ; yet, according to the understand- CHAP. ing which had been entered... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 str.
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. j XVII. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1989 - 228 str.
...the storm — who are not honest, who 90 wear humanity as a mask, whose aim is power, and who 'would wade through slaughter to a throne and shut the gates of mercy on mankind.'2 I have considered the United States as owing to the world an example, and that this is their... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 str.
...eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding... | |
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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, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... 
