 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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...And shut the gates of merey on mankind ; The struggling pangs of eonseious truth to hide, To queneh e. With how sad steps, ineense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding erowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ^ Along the cool .sequester'd vale, of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To qtiench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shrine...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of 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. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn' d to stray ; Along... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial oflerings to the great from the poetic tribe : — ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free air s*. Pain. Ay, marry, what of these... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 556 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : — ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free air24. Pain. Ay, marry, what of these?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : — ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Mnse's Hame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free airw. Pain. Ay, marry, what... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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... | |
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