 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; — 18. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide To...and Pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray : Along... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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;...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, !,h, • ;,,°'i,--P. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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 ;...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Their growing virtues', but their crimes confined': Forbade* to wade through slaughter to a ihrme\ And shut the gates of mercy on mankind': The struggling...incense kindled at the muse's flame'. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife', Their sober wishes never learned to stray'; — Along the cool',... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 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 ;...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...virtues,—but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne; And shut the gate of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame 1 With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture, decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Yet,... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 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...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Flame.18 Yet retirement implies a prior engagement: which entails that the tension is felt by the poet... | |
 | Sydney Ross - Science - 1991 - 254 pages
...ideal, chose science for its own sake and regarded themselves as benefactors of mankind. They scorned To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. They did in fact use similar lofty expressions in describing their ideals. To them the word scientist... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 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 sequester'd... | |
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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... 
