| Joseph Henry Shorthouse - 1902 - 284 páginas
...not yet ceased to reverberate in the hearts of men. 42 ' 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, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the... | |
| Edgar Sheppard - 1902 - 540 páginas
...Andrew Marvell, wrote thus of the King in his last moments : — While round the armed bands Did clasp 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... | |
| 1903 - 672 páginas
...Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case ; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands...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... | |
| Alice Meynell - 1904 - 388 páginas
...Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case, That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands...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... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 368 páginas
...this Ode undoubtedly rests on the three stanzas : — " That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands;...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... | |
| R. Wilcher - 1985 - 214 páginas
...Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England: That thence the royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn: While round the armed bands...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... | |
| Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1990 - 304 páginas
...Ode" used the word in the following tribute to his king: . . . thence the royal actor born The tragic scaffold might adorn: While round the armed bands...nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.21 One hundred and forty-four years later, when Louis... | |
| Jeffrey H. Richards, Professor of Theatre Jeffrey H Richards - 1991 - 368 páginas
...public theater, as uncommon in its way as the court masque was from the common theater of ordinary life: thence the Royal Actor born The Tragick Scaffold might...bloody hands. He nothing common did, or mean Upon the memorable Scene. ("An Horatian Ode," lines 53-58) Despite the fact that, as Orgel remarks, "the... | |
| Steven N. Zwicker - 1993 - 276 páginas
...of the metaphor to distance the execution against its ability to expose the violence of the scene: That thence the Royal Actor born The Tragick Scaffold...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... | |
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