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... Selections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray - Side 19av Thomas Gray - 1894 - 179 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 sider
...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 flame. [2] That humble beauty warm'd an honest heart, And cheer'd the labours of a faithful spouse ; That... | |
| 1800 - 322 sider
...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...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 sider
...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 flame [42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; 'Along... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 sider
...metaphorically) the flattery which poets offer to those who live in splen-' dour. " Fw from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...stray ; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. ' ? Ignoble* — The poet justly calls the ufaal pursuits... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide , To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shauie, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense...to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect , Some frail... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 sider
...confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hiire. To quench the hlushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense...at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignohle strife, Their soher wishes never Icarn'd to stray , Along the cool sequester'd vale of life... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 sider
...ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the (brine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...flame, -*•• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, T heir sober wishes fiever learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool sequefter'd vale of life They... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 sider
...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 flame[42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ;... | |
| 1805 - 570 sider
...should have so far forgotten himself as to pay fulsome adula« tion to the marquis, and condescend ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame ;* and our disgust is perhaps heightened by the recollection of a passage which probably gave Mr. Wrangham... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 sider
...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...stray ; • '; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life : They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail... | |
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