 | 1859 - 520 lapas
...reproachful apostrophe— O supreme Pastors ! ye behold earth's kings Make sport of human life; and o'er (he nights Of sanguinary force, and o'er the crimes Which...dared, Spread the wide papal robe, and all is night. * Schlegel's Lectures on Modern History, VIII. t Niccolini's Arnold of Brescia, a Tragedy. (Garrow's... | |
 | Theodosia Garrow Trollope - 1861 - 332 lapas
...behold Earth's rulers make their sport of human life, And o'er the freaks of blood-stained might, o'er crimes Which heathen tyranny had never dared, Spread the wide Papal robe, and all is night ! " But it was perhaps by the majestic sweep of Arnold's prophetic reply to the Pope's vain-glorious... | |
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The people and their tyrants, ever shows Harsh to the weak, and cringing to the strong: And till this day, man hath been pressed to death, I' th* stern embrace Cesars and priests exchange. 