 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
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with...quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap the shriae of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...eyes. Their lot forbade' ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Tfaeir growing virtues, but their crimes oonfiu'dj Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...blushes of ingenuous shame; ' Or heap the shrine of luxry and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to \vade through slaughter to a throne, And shut me et to virgin-grace. What strings symphouious tremble in the air, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...crimes connn'd ; Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; G The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;- Forbade to wade throagh slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...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 Kirkham - 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 - 1835 - 292 pages
...air. 'Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; The applause of listening senates to command, The...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; • NATIONAL READER. 233 The applause of listening senates to command, The...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... | |
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