 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...flame: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | 1807 - 574 pages
...towards a higher degree of perfection; and dwelling more slightly upon the atrocities of those who " wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind," who " cry havoc and let ¡-lip the dogs, of war," whose steps are traced in the blood of... | |
 | 1807 - 442 pages
...actions, which constitute vulgar greatness, and to dwell slightly upon the horrid atrocities of those, who wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; who cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war; wiiose foot-steps are traced in the blood of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...Forbade to wade through slaughter to;a throng And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; -H -. , rf ii** * The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, '...quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the shritie of luxury and Pride .- -..?'•With incense, kindled at. the Muse's flame. '- / ,.-..i : ,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...flame.* Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 470 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetirk trihe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride " With incense kindled at the muse's flame." Wakefield. 2 through him Drink the free air.] That is, catch his hreath in affected fondness. Johnson.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...Tneir lot forbade: nortireuinscrih'dalone [fin'd : Their growing virtues, but their crimes conForbade d within h!sci>ldembr»eff, Safe had I slumber'd in the arms of peace mankind ; Tlif struggling |wngs of conscious truth to hide, Tiujucnch the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 476 pages
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetick trihe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride " With incense kindled at the muse's flame." Waktfield. 2 - through him Drink the frec air.] That is, catch his hreath in affected fondA similar... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...but their crimes confin'd, r'orbade to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of merry on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blusliesof ingenuous shame, )r heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's... | |
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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... 
