 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
 | 1842 - 252 pages
...contentment and happiness, to which wealth, fashion and luxury can never attain. ' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' But the youth of Hadley were not always satisfied with the quiet scenes of rural life. The fame... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept tho noiseless tenor of their way. Yet eron peering tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse The place of fame... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the unlettered Muse, The place of fume and elegy supply j And many a... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...now dark and now light, of days long gone by, when our " rude forefathers," " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." In wandering over hill and dale there is much to see, much to hear, and more to feel Nature,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...involve the abandonment of truth and industry, as well as the mean flattery of the Far from1 the madding crowd's ignoble strife — Their sober wishes never...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. [Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ;... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...the kingdom for five years, with great vigor and ability. He died in 1658. 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 eren these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...learn' d to stray ; 106 ELEGY. 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,... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...blushes of ingenious 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...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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,...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... | |
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