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 flame. T"ar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned... Popular poems, selected by E. Parker - Seite 291von Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 Seiten
...ocean bear : Fall may a flower is born to blush unseen,' And waste its sweetness on the desert ah*. r heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's liami ar from the madding crowd's ignoble stri Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray .I'm- the... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 462 Seiten
...crimes confined; 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...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. B 3 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never leara'd to stray; Along the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...truth to hide, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Their sober... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 728 Seiten
...crimes confined ; 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 flame. thought by some,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 Seiten
...crimes confined ; 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...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 the cool... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 556 Seiten
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe :— ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free air 24 . Pain. Ay, marry, what of these?... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 Seiten
...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...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 the cool... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1827 - 370 Seiten
...confined ; Forbade lo wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ;...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 the... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 Seiten
...crimes confined; 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 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the... | |
| George Croly - 1828 - 430 Seiten
...crimes confined; 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...and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the... | |
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