 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
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...Their lot forbad ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut 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 noiseless... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...growing virtues ; | but, their crimes' confin'd', , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne', I And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; | The struggling...flame,. | Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife', I ('Their sober wishes never learn'd1 to stray,) 2Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life', | They... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates oi mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious...and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Par from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...their erimes confin'd — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, Or shut the gates of merey on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth...and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame.' Who does not feel how flat and superfluous is the'latter stanza, after the fine coneluding couplet... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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...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 noiseless... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the...shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muses' flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...retirement of the villagers who were Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Flame.18 Yet retirement implies a prior engagement: which entails that the tension is felt by the poet... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Their lot forhade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forhade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...nation's 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed...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. Far from the madding... | |
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