 | James Fennell - Quaker actors - 1814 - 544 pages
...wading through a field of slaughter, to preferment, I can only presume that " Far from the mad'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray: Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." And as I also presume that the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...circumscrib'd aloner Their growing virtues, but their crimes confinM , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling parig-s of conscious truth to To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...list'ning senates] " Tho' wond'ring senates hung on all he spoke." Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,...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 flame: VARIATIONS. Ver.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind:...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding erowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes conlin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling' pangs of conscious truth to hidr. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With iaceuse... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...they led1, but without calling in the additional charm of their polished minds : Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Indulging these habits of classical... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Clergy - 1818 - 430 pages
...will give offence to althose, whom nothing can please but panegyric or defamation. " The strugling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame," are feelings, to which the author, on the present occasion, is a total stranger. He might have expatiated... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of Mercy on mankind,...incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind :...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray—- Along the cool seqnester'd... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...circumscrib'd aloO Th*ir growing virtues, but their crimes co_ ,. , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind :...luxury and pride. With incense kindled at the muse's flume. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never Ittnm'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... 
