 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Ca'sar 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 sequester'd vale of life, What nothing earthly givts, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...crimes confin'd; Forbad 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...more true joy MarceHus exil'd feels, Than Csesai' 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 sequester'd vale of li'e, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy> J BXERCISES... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blusliesof ingenuous shame, )r heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. :ar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learu'd to stray , Along the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 470 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetirk trihe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride " With incense kindled at the muse's flame." Wakefield. 2 through him Drink the free air.] That is, catch his hreath in affected fondness. Johnson.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 476 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetick trihe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride " With incense kindled at the muse's flame." Waktfield. 2 - through him Drink the frec air.] That is, catch his hreath in affected fondA similar... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; Tlif struggling |wngs of conscious truth to hide, Tiujucnch 1'ridc With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. I'jrfrom the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...on roank nd; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quenc'li the blushes of ingemi'ius shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Et generis jactatus honos, rlomlnatio reguin, v'ii.ri n-.l opes, quit-quid forma dedere boni, Supremam... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...crimes confin'd; Forbad 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 leam'd to stray j Along the cool scqucster'd 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... 
