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... Songs of Three Centuries - Página 61editado por - 1890 - 383 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, Their lot forbade : nor circumsciibed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequestered... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 páginas
...o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at die muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, (Their sober wishes never learn'd to... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 372 páginas
...confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; 18. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample...and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 299 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool... | |
| 1851 - 278 páginas
...threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed...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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 páginas
...virtues, but their crimes confined ;— ' Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut tint gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray : Along the cool, sequestered... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 páginas
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, 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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 páginas
...Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;—• The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray: Along the cool, sequestered... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 páginas
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The straggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes...incense kindled' at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray : Along the cool, sequestered... | |
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