 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...  Poetry for Home and School ... - Page 1281846Full view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1838 - 508 pages
...— vol. ip 13. A strain of reflection probably caught from Gray's Elegy — " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." i Gb'the, the Schlegels, Schiller, Curran, Canning, and Lord Brougham, along with many others... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...poet, born 1608. The most celebrated work which he wrote, is "PARADISE LOST." 19 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet, even these bones from insult (o protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh,...passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. 19 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20 Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still, erected nigh, * '•... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...crowd's ignoble strife', | ('Their sober wishes never learn'd' to stray,) 2Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life', | They kept the noiseless tenor of...nigh', | With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deckW', | Implores the passing tribute of a sigh,. | Their names', their years', spell'd by theunletter'd... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
..." unhonored dead," 1941.] [Ann, when wandering through this silent grave, will find— 14 Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, " Some frail memorial...decked " Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Situated in full view of the Tillage, it would seem as if this spot had been selected in order that... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...wishes never learn' d to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tcnour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse,... | |
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