...Written in a Country Churchyard" Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their wishes never learn 'd to stray, Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. THOMAS HARDY Jude the Obscure (1895) f~j /ARDY's novel of flesh versus spirit — in which flesh...

...written after the appearance of the Elegy (1751). 1 life's sequester'd vale: cf. Gray, Elegy 75-76: "Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." 4 the great scenes of public praise: see gloss to Odes 2.2.33-40 (p. 494 above). The Gentlemen...

...Eugène Delacroix, journal entry, 1 847, trans, by Walter Pach (1937). 2 Far from the madding crowd's Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. THOMAS GRAY, (1716-1771) British poet. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," St. 1 9 (1 751...

...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...vale of 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...

...its sweetness on the desert air. ask 4294 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Far from the madding r ease And sleep an act or two. 10275JuliusCaesar Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like way. 4295 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to...

...ironic invocation of Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (xix), 1750: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestred vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Certainly, this novel is no rural...

...shepherds and farmers, like their ancestors who lie under the old gravestones. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Flocks are still ushered home from the hillside; they flow hesitantly across low meadows streaked...

...abstract construction of rural workers who remained content with their situation: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. (lines 73-76) Still there is an irony in Pamela's recital that is absent from Gray's lines. For...

...walking shadow, It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. -Macbeth, v, 5 Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. -Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1751) Among the astute observations of Samuel Johnson is...

...An allusion to lines about the poor in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751): "Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way" (75-76). thirty years; and Lici the good {orinile, al flu 1 lime WO .liO Ììi>vl ; arrived at,...