 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 sivua
...Their lot forbad: nor circumicrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad tu wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mank nd; The straggling pangs of conscious troth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 sivua
...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...luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's ilame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 368 sivua
...excellently ^eatpr^ssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFIELD. [4] "To drink the air," like the haustus xtherios of Virgil,is merely a poetical phrase... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 sivua
...excellently expressed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great from the poetic tribe : " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFIF.LD. £4] "To drink the air," like the haustits etherios of Virginia merely a poetical phrase... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 sivua
...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...shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muses' flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 sivua
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd aloner Their growing virtues, but their crimes confinM , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...shut the gates of mercy on mankind : The struggling parig-s of conscious truth to To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 sivua
...applause of list'ning senates] " Tho' wond'ring senates hung on all he spoke." Forbad to wade thro' slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy...to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame: VARIATIONS. Ver.... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 sivua
...eyes, Their lot forbade ; nor circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but their crimes conlin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...mankind : The struggling' pangs of conscious truth to hidr. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With iaceuse... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1818 - 430 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 sivua
...nation's eyes, Their lot forbade; nor circumscrib'd aloO Th*ir growing virtues, but their crimes co_ ,. , Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...luxury and pride. With incense kindled at the muse's flume. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never Ittnm'd to stray — Along... | |
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The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes... 
