 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap...luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Name. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 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 quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Fur from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade-: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To...luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...crimes confin'd ; Forhade 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, *Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...confin'd ; -, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a thronCi And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...Luxury and Pride With incense kindle.d at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...throne, • And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to bide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame : Or heap...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 stray —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 346 pages
...excellently expresssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great froiii the poetic tribe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFIELD. [4] " To drink the air," like the aaiuriu atherioi of Virgil, is merely a poetical... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And abut the gates of mercy on mankind ; concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational,...proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...crimes confined ; 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...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 stray; Along... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 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...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 stray ; Along... | |
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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... 
