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An account of the island of Jersey - Page 333
by W. Plees - 1824
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...lines have XIX. in them something of softness, that makes criticism deal censure with reluctance : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet, even here, the idea, as usual, is presented to us in different aspects. Ambition is painted...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...closing lines have in them something of softness, that makes criticism deal censure with reluctance : • Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet, even here, the idea, as usual, is presented to us in different aspects. Ambition is painted...
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An Account of the Island of Jersey: Containing a Compendium of Its ...

W. Plees - 1817 - 436 pages
...repressed their noble rage, *' And froze the genial current of their soul." i• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never...tenor of their way." GRAY. * The western coast of Loner Normandy has, in many places, sand banks, particularly about Carteret. Those were doubtless raised,...
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An Account of the Island of Jersey: Containing a Compendium of Its ...

W. Plees - 1817 - 410 pages
...crowd's ignoble strife, - ; «ir. 01^ Their sober wishes never learned to stpy-i :to f ,„,;.,, , .„,, Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their , " *'1 •Continuing to follow the sea line, we, on leaving La Rocco, traverse a part of Les Quenvais...
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Harley Radington

Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their virtuous wishes never tearn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. GRAY. AT dinner my uncle discovered to me the cause of Glensetter's coolness : Lovegold was his deadly enemy,...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 29

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...of ingenuous Shame, *Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequestered 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...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - 1828 - 282 pages
...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...cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...heap the shriae 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 even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...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 even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth...
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The Collegian, Issues 1-6

1830 - 308 pages
...dashing spray Shall rend the living rocks away. SKETCHES FROM MY JOURNAL. ' Far from the madding croud's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' He who weekly observes the splendid parade and stately pomp, which but too often characterize...
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