...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 virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;...

...$c.] A noble verse! which probably held out a light to Gray, in that passage of genuine sublimity, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. — Wakefield, IMITATIONS. Ver. 328. 338. behold another crowd, S?c. — From the black trumpets...

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...my copy prints as follows. I purposely select an instance where the sense runs on : — " To scatter Plenty o'er a smiling land And read their Hist'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined," &o. There are thus...

...The 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. ' On the 22d of July, 1823, MR. CLINTON delivered the Annual Address before the Alpha of the PHI BETA...

...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 virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;...

...17. 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 ; 18. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame...

...The applause of listening leñatee 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 : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confln'd ; Forbad to wade...

...the devoted, the disinterested worshipper of Him who " sitteth in the heavens." He of Rome sought " To wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind." He of Tarsus untiringly strove, at every personal sacrifice, to conduct a fallen race to...

...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...