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by Thomas Gray - 1772
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The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors

English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...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 : Or 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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 8

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...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, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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The Poems of Thomas Gray: Embellished with Engravings from the Designs of ...

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 the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Name. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...through slaughter to a thronCi And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindle.d at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...throne, • And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to bide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame : Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame-. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...through slaughter to a throne, And abut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious f creatures rational, tho' under hope Of hoav'nly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatr incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes...
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Œuvres de M.J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy ou mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse' s flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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The Actor's Budget: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and ...

William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling; panjs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrne of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble...
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