 | John Reid - Poetry - 2005 - 153 pages
...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...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. The thoughtless world to Majesty may bow, Exalt the brave, and idolize Success; But more to Innocence... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pages
...the world of the village is less precise, as the famous central stanza shows: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. (73-76) Here, again, we see Gray's shaping a poetic convention into a trope particularly... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...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...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these... | |
 | 2006 - 524 pages
...鹅由ew 而饱rof 仇lspM 诅 恭" 鼻" 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 never learned to stray;... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 244 pages
...implies dissatisfaction with his own class and milieu. And his scorn of bourgeois art, which heaps "the Shrine of Luxury and Pride / With Incense kindled at the Muse's Flame," supplies further evidence that the Spokesman is a kind of declasse intellectual. Any similarity he... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 380 pages
...implies that the rude forefathers were lucky to have lived simple rural lives. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Taken out of context, the stanza... | |
 | Anne-Lise François - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 336 pages
...for example, Gray's lines on the blessedly, coolly selfsufficient villagers — Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. — to Crabbe's resounding call for a truthful depiction of rural poverty "in verse":... | |
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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... 
