 That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : 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 call'd the Gods,...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2861868Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop - 200 lehte
...actor born The tragic scaffold might adorn: While round the armed bands 93 Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye 60 The axe's edge did try: Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 lehte
...variations - notice how the word "down" slows almost to motionlessness our image of the critical moment.) He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...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 head Down,... | |
 | Philip Auslander - 2003 - 488 lehte
...Charles is a successful performer because he is so fine an actor while being so entirely unhistrionic: "He nothing common did or mean/ Upon that memorable scene,/ But with his keener eye/ The ax's edge did try." Appropriate to his magnificent balance at the juncture of life and death is a pun... | |
 | Donald Hall - 2004 - 236 lehte
...the execution of Charles, written by the poet later described by Royalists as a "bitter Republican": He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...But with his keener Eye The Axe's edge did try: Nor calTd the Gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head, Down,... | |
 | John Hines - 2004 - 230 lehte
...Actor born The Tragick Scaffold might adorn: 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 Axes edge did try. (from: Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland' [1650])... | |
 | Rebecca Fraser - 2005 - 868 lehte
...partisan of Cromwell's, was so impressed by the way the king had died that he immortalized it in verse: He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...Right But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. The Commonwealth and Protectorate (1649-1660) England was now declared to be a republic or Commonwealth.... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - 448 lehte
...by choosing a 4-4-3-3 (rather than 4-3-4-3) form (N486; text from 1681, Bodleian MS Eng.Poet.d.49) : He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable Scene ; But with his keener eye The axes edge did trye. Nor call'd the Cods with vulgar spighi To vindicate his helplesse right ; But bow'd... | |
 | Thomas Page Anderson - 2006 - 252 lehte
...actor born The tragic scaffold might adorn: While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...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 head, Down,... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 lehte
...with the serene dignity and courage of which enduring myths are made. Well might Andrew Marvell write: He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axe's edge did try: 197 Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless Right, But bow'd his comely Head,... | |
 | Andreas Höfele - 2007 - 363 lehte
...actor born The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...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 head Down,... | |
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