...of farmers whose names on tombstones carry them back to the early part of the seventeenth century. Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. His grandmother was a Baxter, of the same family as the celebrated Richard Baxter. My mother,...

...circumscribed . . . confined] denied, restricted ingenuous] guiltless, innocent 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 even these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth...

...Muse's flame. FAR from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; 75 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 still erected nigh, With uncouth...

...But thro' the cool sequestered vale of life Pursue the silent tenor of thy doom. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones some insult...

...at 168 minutes. In Australia, the movie was released at 167 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. — Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (1751) In England of the 1870s, beautiful...

...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...vale of 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...

...ruth: And o ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. — John Milton, "Lycidas" 6. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. — Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 7. It Beareth the name of Vanity-Fair,...

...part of Hardy's pastoral novel. The relevant stanza (73-76) reads as follows: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. The poem teems with echoes and reminiscences of classical Latin poetry praising rural retirement...

...Preston Heights Cemetery, I recall Thomas Gray's line from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": "Along the cool sequestered vale of life, they kept the noiseless tenor of their way." Here is the ground where my existence began, and such was the context that was shaping me in...