 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...nation's eye*, Their lot forbade; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues,but theircrimeaconfined Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tcnour of their way. Yet e'en these bones, from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 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...kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowds ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...critic's feelings, we know, were irritability itself and ' tremblingly alivo all o'er.' "—Wakejield. 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their glowing virtues, but their crimes confined — Forbade 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... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined j 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...Their lot forbade : 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 learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air ! Some village...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... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, 8 To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...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 rhymes... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 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...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 rhymes... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page,...life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
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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... 
