 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
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...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 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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 346 pages
...excellently expresssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great froiii the poetic tribe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFIELD. [4] " To drink the air," like the aaiuriu atherioi of Virgil, is merely a poetical phrase... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...a throne, And abut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, ional, tho' under hope Of hoav'nly grace: and God...proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 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... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pages
...penury repressed their noble rage, " And froze the genial current of their soul." " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never...sequestered vale of life, " They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." GRAY. * The western coast of .Lower Jformandy has, in many places, sand banks,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...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...shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse' s flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...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 strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The strugglmg 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury 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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