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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales - Page 79
edited by - 1872
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; -, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a thronCi And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling...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...
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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
...eyes, Their lot forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...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...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. thought by some, that in it Mr. Edwards has not done justice to his subject. 67. Forbade to wade through...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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...
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Œuvres de M.J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confm'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingeniions Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flamc....
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...to hide ; To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's Far from the madding crowd's...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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...
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