 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1838 - 120 pages
...Marcellus exil'd feels, ... • s • Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. ' _ , ' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' '/ What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy. The soul's calm sunshine, and the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd...sequester'd vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt... | |
 | 1839 - 300 pages
...grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The Parish Beadle calling at the door ! Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! * * # * Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...spargon gli odori. XIV. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnM to stray ; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. XIX. AХХ' ¿Tí Tifva Kai (ктте' àir ía\tos a>аTf tpv\á£ai ПXaоч'oi/ fítrтífKfi /¿/'((/с/?**... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...modestes jours, ignorés de l'envie, Coulèrent sans orage au vallon de la vie. XIX. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool, sequesterM vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. AXX' In Tr¡va ка\ ¿oré'... | |
 | Lance St John Butler - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 192 pages
...contains the novel's title. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never Icarn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Is the irony intentional? The irony. I mean, of suggesting peace and quiet and... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...Church-Yard is another great Augustan poem written in iambic pentameter quatrains. 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. (lines 73-6) This very example, however, brings us up against an interesting problem.... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 702 pages
...forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; 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.17 In fact, Defoe has Crusoe quote two lines of a song called "The Country Life"... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...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 learn'd...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... | |
 | Janet Semple - 1993 - 362 pages
...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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Far from the 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 way. 
