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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... "
The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ... - Page 243
by William Enfield - 1804 - 376 pages
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The Comic Annual

Thomas Hood - 1839 - 320 pages
...grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The Parish Beadle calling at the door ! Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...

James Lackington - 1830 - 376 pages
...every step, to claim a tear, Some little friendship form'd and cherish'd here." " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...stray : Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They keep the noiseless tenor of their way." At Taunton and Wellington it seemed the unanimous determination...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...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 learned to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the...
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The American Manual, Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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...cool sequester'd 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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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...tree, and many a stone, excite a pleasing melancholy, in regard to the tenants of this quiet spot : — Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, GRAV. If we climb the mountain, we behold a vast variety of scenery, from the base to the far distant...
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The recess, or autumnal relaxation in the Highlands and Lowlands, a tour to ...

James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...rivalled our modern villas, many a reader will be puzzled by the following verse of the poet : — " Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh!'1 Uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures ! Why, we shall have half an epic poem inscribed on...
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English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar: Designed for the ...

Lindley Murray - 1834 - 236 pages
...stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, 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. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy. The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...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'. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife', Their sober wishes never learned to stray'; — Along the cool',...
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A Collection, in Prose and Verse, for the Use of Schools

Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 pages
...the desert air. .;>: . • , M .1 .. • -J ,. J. •• ). '• •-...- .' .5 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. .'». •;.• •• .. •. • • MY .••• i»i >• Yet even these bones, from insult...
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