 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. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to...  Standard Fifth Reader - Page 187by Epes Sargent - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. j XVII. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide ;...ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride, XVIII. r Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...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 ;...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 ; 106 ELEGY.... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...confined j 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 learned to stray ; Along the... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth... | |
 | 926 pages
...And he was quite right ; for he was one of those of whom the poet wrote — " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way!" But to proceed with my tale — one day, when they were all seated as usual at "tea," or rather... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...villagers who were Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...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... | |
 | Orson Scott Card - 2009 - 353 pages
...no one else could hear. Again the words of Gray's Elegy played out in her mind. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Poor Alvin. When I'm done with you, there'll be no cool sequestered vale. You'll look back on... | |
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