 Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art seen) With thundering voice, and threatening mien, With screaming Horror's funeral...  Practical Education - Page 275by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1835 - 549 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...the general friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy gorgon terrour's clad, Nor circled with the vengeful bae.1, (As by the impious thou art... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...general friend, WTith Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly -pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band, (As by the impious thou art seen)... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...the general friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy gorgon terrours clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band, (As by the impious thou art... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Education - 1822 - 510 pages
...think that seems confused. " Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, " Dread Goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand!" S- did not seem to comprehend the first of...word suppliant : he thought it meant " a person who sup" plies us." " Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad,' " Nor circled by the vengeiul band, " As by the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...general friend, 30 With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh ! gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, 35 Not circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...the general friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear. Oh ! gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art seen)... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...the general friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear, Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy gorgon terrours clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band, (At by the impious thou art... | |
 | John Galt - Rochester (N.Y.) - 1830 - 350 pages
...notwithstanding the assurances I had given him to the contrary some time before. CHAPTER X. " Daughter of Jove ! Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand."' ON my return to Babelmandel, I had the grief to find a letter from Mr. Ferret, written in a friendly... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...the general friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art seen),... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ; Oh gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess ! lay thy chastening hand ; Not in thy gorgon terrors clad, Not girt with pain, despair, and want, thy vengeful band. Thy form... | |
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