 | Hillel Matthew Daleski - Love in literature - 1997 - 492 pages
...continuing to evoke "pastoral affairs" (74), has a decidedly ironic dimension: 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. The narrative may be located in a sequestered vale of life, but the wishes of its... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 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 learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
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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... 
