 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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,...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. [2] That humble beauty warm'd an honest heart, And cheer'd the labours of a faithful spouse ; That... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...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,...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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,...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame [42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; 'Along... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...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,...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame[42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ;... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...hut their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hiire. To quench the hlushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and...at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignohle strife, Their soher wishes never Icarn'd to stray , Along the cool sequester'd vale of life... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...ftruggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, Or heap the (brine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's...flame, -*•• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, T heir sober wishes fiever learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool sequefter'd vale of life They... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pages
...should have so far forgotten himself as to pay fulsome adula« tion to the marquis, and condescend ' To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame ;* and our disgust is perhaps heightened by the recollection of a passage which probably gave Mr. Wrangham... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes cf ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and...strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray j Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet, ev'n these... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...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,...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
