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...heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect,...

...eyes, Their lot forbade-: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To...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...

...circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forhade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind....to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, *Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the...

...growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; -, Forbade to wade through slaughter to a thronCi And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling...never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect,...

...'circumscrib'd alone, Their growing virtues, but. their crimes 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 bide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame : Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense...

...excellently expresssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great froiii 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 aaiuriu atherioi of Virgil, is merely a poetical phrase...

...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 s«quester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives,...

...growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And abut n, devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men...proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect...

...circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn' d to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless...