 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...flame. 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never leamed to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...the seasons has survived serfdom, plagues, famines, wars, poverty, and the CAP: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.4 St Omer (1127) led the way for Bruges and Ghent. In north Germany, the selfgovernment of Lubeck... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Eugène Delacroix, journal entry, 1 847, trans, by Walter Pach (1937). 2 Far from the madding crowd's Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. THOMAS GRAY, (1716-1771) British poet. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," St. 1 9 (1 751... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...crimes conf1ned; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...its sweetness on the desert air. ask 4294 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Far from the madding r ease And sleep an act or two. 10275JuliusCaesar Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like way. 4295 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. (PTG 12.7-30) The resignation of Gray's speaker in the face of such seeming 'inequities' lies at the... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...Crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a Throne, And shut the Gates of Mercy on Mankind, The struggling Pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To...Flame. 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... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...abstract construction of rural workers who remained content with their situation: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. (lines 73-76) Still there is an irony in Pamela's recital that is absent from Gray's lines. For... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 276 pages
...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, THE struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, 70 To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap...strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; 75 Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. YET even these... | |
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Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; 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... 
