The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 106by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...flame. 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... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...nation's eyes, Their lot forbade; nor circumscrib'd aloO Th*ir growing virtues, but their crimes co_ ,. , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...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... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade inor circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and prided With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the-madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...flame. 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... | |
| 1821 - 270 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequester'd... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Fur from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, The' applause of listening senates to command, The...flame. ! 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... | |
| 1822 - 418 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade-: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To...flame. 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... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; -, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a thronCi And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling...flame. 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And abut n, devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men...proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
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