...poet might pay to a conqueror and head of the state, without the possibility of self-degradation. " Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud, Not...fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd, And on the neck of crowned fortune proud Hast rear'd God's trophies and his work pursued,...

...fraud. In vain doth Valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. To the Lord General Cromwell. yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd plough'd, And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud Hast rear'd God's trophies, and his work pursued,...

...printed copies it stands thus, .—that through a croird Not of war only , but ditiraci tent rude : 203 Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace...ploughed, And on the neck of crowned fortune proud 5 Hast rear'd God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream with blood of Scots imbrued,...

...Rapine share the land. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, t CROMWELL, our chief of men, who thro'acloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith...fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast And on the neck of crowned fortune proud 5 Hast rear'd God's trophies, and his work pursued. While...

...vain doth valour bleed, While avarice and rapine share the land. XVI. To the Lord General CROMWELL* CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, in our old poetry. Spenser, Hymne of Heavenly Beautie. Thence gathering plumes of perfect speculation,...

...peaee and truth thy glorious way hast plough 'd, And on the neek of erowned Fortune proud Hast rear'd Seots imbrued. And Dunbar field resounds thy praises loud. And Woreester's laureat wreath. Yet mueh...

...vain doth valour bleed, While avarice and rapine share the land. XVI. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL. CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud, Not...fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd, And on the neck of crowned fortune proud Hast rear'd God's trophies, and his work pursued,...

...workman's hand, And drew it perfect, yet without a shade." And Milton, in a higher strain of poetry : Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not...stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath." Nor was this only the language of poetry....

...workman's hand, And drew it perfect, yet without a shade." And Milton, in a higher strain of poetry : Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not...work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Soots imbrued, And Dunbar field resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath." Nor was...

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