 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
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 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...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never leanrtl to stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The strugglmg pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, . Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is bor n to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 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...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 Enfield - 1827 - 412 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...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... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes. Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;— The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, „...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life i They kept the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...virtues, — but their crimes confm'd; 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! Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth... | |
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