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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ... - Page 301
edited by - 1864
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history iii a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flume. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn M to stray ; Along...
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A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...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...
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A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ...

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...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...
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1852 - 512 pages
...virtues, but their crimes confined ;— Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut tha gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of...incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray : Along the cool, sequestered...
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The Class Book of Poetry

Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to'a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The...shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muses' flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Their lot forbad ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...growing virtues ; | but, their crimes' confin'd', , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne', I And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; | The struggling...flame,. | Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife', I ('Their sober wishes never learn'd1 to stray,) 2Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life', | They...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates oi mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious...and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Par from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...their erimes confin'd — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, Or shut the gates of merey on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth...and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame.' Who does not feel how flat and superfluous is the'latter stanza, after the fine coneluding couplet...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver ...

William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless...
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