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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... "
Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins - Page 94
redigeeritud poolt - 1806
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Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 lehte
...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...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 lehte
...confin'd ; 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...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 lehte
...crimes confin'd ; 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...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 nigh,...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 lehte
...crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ;...luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the...
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Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington ...

James Lackington - 1827 - 368 lehte
...and well, and tolerably happy. The following lines often occurred to my mind : " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray : Along the cool sequester'd rale of life They keep the noiseless tenor of their way." At Taunton and Wellington it seemed the unanimous...
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

John Guillory - 1993 - 422 lehte
...crimes confin'd; 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...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. (57-76) The reappearance of "blushes" in the later stanza (line 69) only confirms its secret determination...
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Bentham's Prison : A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary: A Study of the ...

Janet Semple - 1993 - 362 lehte
...eighteenth-century romantic melancholy, evokes a happy rural innocence where: 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. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield described his refuge in similar terms: The place...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 lehte
...crimes confined; 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, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding...
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Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love

Hillel Matthew Daleski - 1997 - 492 lehte
...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...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 lehte
...crimes conf1ned; 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...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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