 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...unroll.'" 8. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear." 9. " Along the cool sequestered vale of life Th.ey kept the noiseless tenor of their way." 10. " Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With... | |
 | Thomas Gill - 1852 - 516 pages
...of Selbourne would have said, what the author of the Elegy would have sung, "Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." Living under a continuous succession of good landlords, the dauntless breast of no village Hampden... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 498 pages
...repose, and the winds sighing through their branches, sing their only requiem ! 'Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' " Not a family in this section but has a relative or friend resting here. The great, the proud,... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 522 pages
...repose, and the winds sighing through their branches, sing their only requiem ! ' Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' " Not a family in this section but has a relative or friend resting here. The great, the proud,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 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. 378 ELEGY. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...Boldier'a wpwfcfcre." Campbell. Sequestro, / separate from ; as, sequestrate. " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."— Cray. Sequor, / follow ; secutus, followed ; as consequent, persecute, execute. Seraglio,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Par from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...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... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." " And I remember," said Annie, " a remark I heard some time since, which, perhaps, is appropriate... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...conscious truth to hide ; 19. 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. 20. Yet e'en these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still, erected nigh, With... | |
 | Mary Ide Torrey - 1853 - 336 pages
...looking out. How contentedly they lived, the reader shall now see. CHAPTER II. THE EDWARDS FAMILY. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. — Gray's Elegy. THE stern discipline of early poverty had given to Mrs. Edwards's naturally... | |
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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 noiseless tenor of their way. 
