 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 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. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life 75 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 2000 - 196 pages
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 | Almon W. Clark - 2000 - 260 pages
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 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 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. (PTG 12.7-30) The resignation of Gray's speaker in the face of such seeming 'inequities' lies at the... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...CVfliW/(1874) and the earlier "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," by Thomas Gray: "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife / Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; / Along the cool sequester'd vail of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way" (st. 19). 4. Matthew 23:24: Jesus, lecturing... | |
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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... 
