...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...

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...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...ingenuous shame; Or heap the shrine of luxury and prided With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the«inadding crowd's ignoble strife, Their...

...blood. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Their geowing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...blushes of ingenuous shame; Or heap the shrine of luxry and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,...

...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 quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool...

...confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And siiut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, •* To quench the blushes of ingesiuous shame; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame....

...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, '...luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Maine, Fur from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along...

...the Psalms, is pointed out with judgment and taste in the Spectators. 18. «« The struggling pang* of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes...shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muses' flame. The sense in this stanza is also carried on from that which is before it; and the poet...

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