 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, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...  Lyrical gleanings from various authors - Page 86by Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...should have so far forgotten himself as to pay fulsome adula« tion to the marquis, and condescend ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame ;* and our disgust is perhaps heightened by the recollection of a passage which probably gave Mr. Wrangham... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...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...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; • '; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life : They kept... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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...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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...alone Their growing virtues, hut their crimes confm'd; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes cf ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray j Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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...flame: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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...flame.* Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 476 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetick trihe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride " With incense kindled at the muse's flame." Waktfield. 2 - through him Drink the frec air.] That is, catch his hreath in affected fondA similar... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blusliesof ingenuous shame, )r heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. :ar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learu'd to stray , Along the... | |
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