 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
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 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,...to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life i They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap the shriae of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,...life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 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 the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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' unlettered Muse,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's on it« very top founded the aforesaid convent, which...are commissioned to entertain strangers— for the r even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | 1830 - 308 pages
...dashing spray Shall rend the living rocks away. SKETCHES FROM MY JOURNAL. ' Far from the madding croud's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' He who weekly observes the splendid parade and stately pomp, which but too often characterize... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...judicious change was suggested by Mason. Verso 19, as the poem now stands, is — ' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' Verse 24 i ' For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...the shrine of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With... | |
 | 1833 - 244 pages
...said, ' How well does this scene harmonize with the sentiments of the poet, ' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, ' Their sober wishes never...vale of life 'They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' ' And would you,' I replied, ' wish to live in solitude, wasting the prime of life in dullness... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...the shrine of luxury and pride', With incense kindled at the muse's flame'. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife', Their sober wishes never...sequestered vale of life', They kept the noiseless tenour of their way'. Yet even these bones', from insult to protect', Some frail memorial still erected... | |
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