 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 quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...  A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse - Page 253edited by - 1907 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to...Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. And thou who, mindful... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...mankind. 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...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 - 1804 - 418 pages
...mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide , To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shauie, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense...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... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hiire. To quench the hlushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense...at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignohle strife, Their soher wishes never Icarn'd to stray , Along the cool sequester'd vale of life... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the (brine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...flame, -*•• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, T heir sober wishes fiever learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool sequefter'd vale of life They... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; • '; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life : They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these...Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes cf ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray j Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...mankind. 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...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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...confm'd; 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...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... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...mankind. 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...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd Tale of life They kept the... | |
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