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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins - Page 94
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...crimes confm'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Tar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the...
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; B XVIII. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. XIX. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray : Along...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; XVIII. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. XIX. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray : Along...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...thrcme, And shot the gates of meivy on uiauk nd; The straggling pangs of conscious truth to hi;le, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With iucensc kindled at the Muse's flame. Par from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...mercy on mankind. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, ' Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Far from the...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 2

John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...descents ; and to agree, in some measure, to the open and saleable prostitution of his heaven-> born muse. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; * Vol. IX. p. 431. VI. 248. &uesla fatica estrema, Ac. About a month after his election, his Holiness...
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Poetical selections, consisting of the most approved pieces of our best ...

Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...crimes confin'd : 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...luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's ilame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along...
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Rights of God, Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...crimes confin'd: 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...never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd va!e of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way, Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 368 pages
...excellently ^eatpr^ssed 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." WAKEFIELD. [4] "To drink the air," like the haustus xtherios of Virgil,is merely a poetical phrase...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 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." WAKEFIF.LD. £4] "To drink the air," like the haustits etherios of Virginia merely a poetical phrase...
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