| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench, the blushes...ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and prided With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the-madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, •* To quench the blushes of ingesiuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from tlie-madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequester'd... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, [deck'd, With uncouth... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequester'd... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap...luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Name. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Fur from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the... | |
| Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...Mavci. GOLDSMITB. Far from t IK: madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their virtuous wishes never tearn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. GRAY. AT dinner my uncle discovered to me the cause of Glensetter's coolness :... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequestei'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind: The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To .quench the blushes...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. '-' Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. (.'ray's first MS. of the Poem, were the foor following:—... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...forbade-: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
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