 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...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...strife : Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; J Along the cool scquester'd vale of life -i rThey kept the noiseless tenor of their way. J Ye* ev'n... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Keese - 1844 - 322 pages
...years rolled round, and peace and sunshine lay continually in their pathway. " Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." But, alas ! an end must come to all conditions of earthly enjoyment ; and we often throw away... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The Etrugglmg pangs of conscious truth to hide, Iror.i the madding crowd's ignoble strife Thiiir sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...Church-Yard is another great Augustan poem written in iambic pentameter quatrains. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. (lines 73-6) This very example, however, brings us up against an interesting problem. It ought... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...to a throne, And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Flame.18 Yet retirement implies a prior engagement: which entails that the tension is felt by the poet... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 702 pages
...forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.17 In fact, Defoe has Crusoe quote two lines of a song called "The Country Life" near the beginning... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...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...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. (57-76) The reappearance of "blushes" in the later stanza (line 69) only confirms... | |
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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... 
