 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...their polished minds : 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 tenor of their way. Indulging these habits of classical repose, he wrote a charming Poem, dated Aug.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 216 pages
...more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool aequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives, or... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 566 pages
...flow'r i& born to blush, unseen, " And waste its sweetness in the desert air. " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never...life " They kept the noiseless tenour of their way." " Christianity," says a learned writer, " has in every " age produced good effects on thousands and... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...flow'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness in the desert air. " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never...life " They kept the noiseless tenour of their way." " Christianity," says a learned writer, " has in every " age produced good effects on thousands and... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Clergy - 1818 - 430 pages
...will give offence to althose, whom nothing can please but panegyric or defamation. " The strugling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame," are feelings, to which the author, on the present occasion, is a total stranger. He might have expatiated... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...ancestor», in this parish, ran their unambitious round of village-occupations, when, " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool seqnesler'd vale of life They kept the noiselew tenor of their way." Nor does the church-yard present... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...And more true joy Marcellusexil'd feels, Than Ceesar with a senate at his heels. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of ther way. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1819 - 384 pages
...of the Falconers, that u Far from the madding crowd's ignoble suife Thai- sober wishes never leam'd to stray : Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless teuor of their way. B With no common-place qualities , in .all the ordinary concerns .of life they... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...crimes confin'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...cool sequester'd 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,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...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...sober wishes never learn'd to stray—- Along the cool seqnester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en the'se bones from insult... | |
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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... 
