 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...  The Monthly anthology, and Boston review - Page 3111809Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bauds, Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did,...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1874 - 496 pages
...envied it at the close of his usurpation. Marvell, a lover of liberty, has done it justice : — " 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 as... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - Great Britain - 1874 - 404 pages
...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 - 236 pages
...— " 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...; He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable acene, But with his keener eye The axe's «dge did try ; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite,...right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. — This was that memorable hour Which first assured the forced power : So when they did design... | |
 | England - 1875 - 786 pages
...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 edge did try ; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite', To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - History - 1993 - 276 pages
...expose the violence of the scene: That thence the Royal Actor born The Tragick Scaffold might adorn: While round the armed Bands Did clap their bloody...nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable Scene. 36 The figure is handled with uncommon analytical power, but the materials themselves are so commonplace... | |
 | Richard Braverman - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 366 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...chase To Carisbrook's narrow case: That thence the royal actor bom The tragic scaffold might adom: While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...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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