| English poetry - 1857 - 334 페이지
...kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life,...still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures deckt, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered... | |
| William Caine Moragne - 1857 - 56 페이지
...time have effaced their names and virtues from the page of memory : or, perhaps, "Par from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." Such were the men, whose talents and learning, whose judgment and wisdom controlled the temporal... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 페이지
...hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding...years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 페이지
...hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding...stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They keep the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 페이지
...ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life 20. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck;t, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their nams, their years, spelt by the unlettered... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1858 - 466 페이지
...learnt to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kepi the noiseless tenor of their wa/. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some...still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptuM decked, Implores th* passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the nnlolterM... | |
| John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 페이지
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name,...years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.... | |
| Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 페이지
...grave." He characterizes the dead who rest in this quiet place as people who, Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.3 In the same spirit of moral teaching as the medieval tomb sculptures, Gray's elegy warns its... | |
| Orson Scott Card - 2009 - 353 페이지
...no one else could hear. Again the words of Gray's Elegy played out in her mind. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Poor Alvin. When I'm done with you, there'll be no cool sequestered vale. You'll look back on... | |
| Clark McPhail - 298 페이지
...specifying in any coherent fashion the referent of their theoretical labors. Prologue Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray 1750) The first lines of... | |
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