 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 comely...  Notes and Queries - الصفحة 2001907عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...gentlemen who touched its edge while he was speaking ; " that may hurt me." In the words of Marvell : " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The ftxe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd... | |
 | George Fyler Townesend - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...— " While round the armed bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, Amid that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try.f Maldou and Earl of Essex, 20th of April, 1661 ; 2. Henry, created a Knight of the Bath at the... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...lines to celebrate Charles's royal demeanour on the scaffold — He nothing common did or mean Upon the memorable scene, But, with his keener eye, The axe's...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. But these verses form no part of a professed elegy. They... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...to celebrate Charles's royal demeanour on the scaffold — " He nothing common did or mean Upon the memorable scene, But, with his keener eye The axe's...vulgar spite', To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed." But these verses form no part of a professed elegy. They... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...to celebrate Charles's royal demeanour on the scaffold — " He nothing common did or mean Upon the memorable scene, But, with his keener eye The axe's...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon abed.*' But these verses form no part of a professed elegy. They... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...acting and yielding 'feminine' quality, but without excessive pathos giving eredit where eredit is due: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...axe's edge did try; Nor called the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. (57-64) The ingenious... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...himself, and his sword is pure spirit also. "He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.... Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." What a transit was that of his horizontal body alone, but... | |
 | Richard Braverman - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...his "comely head" in compliance to the axe which bespoke the "bloody hands" of Cromwell's soldiers: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Shortly before the "axe's edge did try," Cromwell purportedly told Algernon Sidney "we will cut offhis... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...better than Marvell the king's theatricalism on that extraordinary political occasion of his execution: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axes edge did try: Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 936
...actor bom The tragic scaffold might adom: 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: 60 Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head... | |
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