 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, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...  Simple English poems, ed. by H.C. Bowen - Page 60edited by - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...confin'd ; 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...to stray ; Along the 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...growing virtues ; | but, their crimes' confin'd', | Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne', ! And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, ; | The struggling...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling...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... | |
 | Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 pages
...stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, 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. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...Their glowing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine 20 of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's Same. Far from the madding... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 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...to stray; Along the 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... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...retirement of the villagers who were Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious...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.18 Yet retirement implies... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - 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...to stray; Along the 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling...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. Along the cool sequester'd... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling...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... | |
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