 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered ers who are commissioned to entertain strangers— for the r even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...cool, sequester'd vale oflife. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these Ь-т.ьз from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, 75 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ; Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd ' muse,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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 to...cool sequester'd 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1833 - 222 pages
...his heels. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to shay ; Along the cool 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 joy ti... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...rivalled our modern villas, many a reader will be puzzled by the following verse of the poet : — " Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh!'1 Uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures ! Why, we shall have half an epic poem inscribed on... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1834 - 236 pages
...starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to...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 joy, Is... | |
 | 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 to...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield described his refuge in similar terms: The place of our retreat... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...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 to...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. (57-76) The reappearance of "blushes" in the later stanza (line 69) only confirms... | |
 | Henry Hudson Holly - Architecture - 1993 - 268 pages
...trees, and among moss-covered gravestones, " the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." " Yet c'eti these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Hard by stands the church. The ivy has crept quite... | |
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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 learn'd to... 
