 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...  The Theory of the School - Pagina 251door Howard Sandison - 1886 - 484 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 368 pagina’s
...excellently ^eatpr^ssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFIELD. [4] "To drink the air," like the haustus xtherios of Virgil,is merely a poetical phrase... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pagina’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...shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muses' flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pagina’s
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd aloner Their growing virtues, but their crimes confinM , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling parig-s of conscious truth to To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1815 - 376 pagina’s
...nation's eyes. Their lot forbad; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd: Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool secjuester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pagina’s
...applause of list'ning senates] " Tho' wond'ring senates hung on all he spoke." Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy...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: VARIATIONS. Ver.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagina’s
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding erowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pagina’s
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes conlin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...mankind : The struggling' pangs of conscious truth to hidr. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With iaceuse... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 216 pagina’s
...more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool aequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives, or... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1818 - 430 pagina’s
...will give offence to althose, whom nothing can please but panegyric or defamation. " The strugling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame," are feelings, to which the author, on the present occasion, is a total stranger. He might have expatiated... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pagina’s
...ancestor», in this parish, ran their unambitious round of village-occupations, when, " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool seqnesler'd vale of life They kept the noiselew tenor of their way." Nor does the church-yard present... | |
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