 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 556 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : — ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free air24. Pain. Ay, marry, what of these?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : — ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Mnse's Hame.' Make sacred even his stirrop, and through him Drink the free airw. Pain. Ay, marry, what... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone...luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...virtues, — but their crimes confm'd; Forbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne; And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame! Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...to command, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;— The struggling pangs of conscious Truth... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 562 pages
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side ;"... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 574 pages
...after having almost engrossed the admiration of antiquity, has too often excited modern heroism, " to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind," might have been destined to pass their lives among the dwellers " under the wood-side;" where... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone...quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap the shriae of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...eyes. Their lot forbade' ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Tfaeir growing virtues, but their crimes oonfiu'dj Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...blushes of ingenuous shame; ' Or heap the shrine of luxry and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...praise, And my Creator's name inspire my lays. Gay. Their lot forbade ! nor circumscribed alone Th«ir growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And ihut the fates of mercy on mankind. Gray"! Elegy. CIRCUMSPE'CT, adj. "] Lat. circumCIRCUMSPE'CTION,... | |
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The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... 
