 | 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 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 learn'd to stray, Along the cool s«quester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...abut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the der hope Of hoav'nly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh,... | |
 | 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...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 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...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 - 460 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...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...shut the gates of mercy ou 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 flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...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, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...shut the gates of merey on mankind ; The struggling pangs of eonseious truth to hide, To queneh the ith how sad steps, ineense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding erowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes... | |
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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... 
