 | 1811 - 710 pages
...forfeited his life, i» an assertion which no human reasoning can ever justify : I should have died for shame, To see my king before his subjects stand, And...commands to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed! What tho' thy faults were many, and were great? What tho' they shook the... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 524 pages
...following quotation from our British Juvenal, which seems entirely applicable to our present purpose. Unhappy Stuart ! harshly though that name Grates on...should have died with shame, To see my King before his people stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand. Their greater crimes make thine like specks... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...father's blood : Nature, aghast, and fearful lest her reign Should last no longer, bled in every vein. Unhappy Stuart ! harshly though that name Grates on...commands to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed ! W hat though thy faults were many and were great ? What though they shook... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 424 pages
...that the number is small indeed who • Unhappy Stuart ! harshly though that name Grates on my car, I should have died with shame, To see my King before...And at their bar hold up his royal hand ; At their command to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed. What though thy faults... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 720 pages
...Stuart! harshly thmurh that name Grates on my par, I sliouj'l have died with shame. To see my Kin? More his subjects stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand ; At their command to hear the monarcu plead, By their decrees tu set? that monarch bleed. What though thy fanlti... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pages
...comparison bet ween these unhappy monarchs fails in almost every point, excepting in the closing 1 " Unhappy Stuart ! harshly though that name Grates on...stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand ; At tln'ir command to hear the monarch plead. By tlicir decrees to see that monarch bleed. What though... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 490 pages
...every point, excepting in the closing 1 " Unhappy Stuart ! harshly though that name Orates on my ear, 1 should have died with shame, To see my King before...And at their bar hold up his royal hand ; At their command to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed. What though thy faults... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 450 pages
...comparison between these unhappy monarchy fails in almost every point, excepting in the closing 1 " Unhappy Stuart! harshly though that name Grates on...died with shame, To see my King before his subjects sttind t And iit their bar hold up his royal hand; At their command to hear the monarch plead, By their... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 474 pages
...comparison bet ween these unhappy monarchs fails in almost every point, excepting in the closing 1 " Unhappy Stuart! harshly though that name Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame, To see ray King before his subjects stand, And at thetr bar hold up his royal hand: At th1'ir command to hear... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1843 - 406 pages
...torn, x,, p. 164 ; Madame Campan, vol. ii., p. 222. £ " Unhappy Stuart ! harshly though that name 1 Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame, To...subjects stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand ; 1782-] CHARLES I. AND LOUIS XVI. 233 that the number is small indeed who think it justifiable even... | |
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Unhappy Stuart! harshly though that name Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame To see my king before his subjects stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand; At their commands to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch... 
