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 learned to... Poetry for Home and School ... - Page 1281846Full view - About this book
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray—- Along the cool seqnester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, .With uncotth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the pasting tribute of a sigh. T"heir name,... | |
| 1821 - 282 pages
...never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequestei'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
| 1822 - 418 pages
...madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their...nigh, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...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 tenor of their...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse,... | |
| W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pages
...penury repressed their noble rage, " And froze the genial current of their soul." " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never...of life, " They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." GRAY. * The western coast of .Lower Jformandy has, in many places, sand banks, particularly about... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life 75 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these...to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, Ver. 73. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.] VARIATION. " The thoughtless world to majesty... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenoxir of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the' unletter'd Muse,... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 282 pages
...wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by tbe unlettered luuso, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...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,...cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected... | |
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