 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...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - ˹éÒ 106â´Â Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877ÁØÁÁͧ·Ñé§àÅèÁ - à¡ÕèÂǡѺ˹ѧÊ×ÍàÅèÁ¹Õé
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 ˹éÒ
...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...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. [2] That humble beauty warm'd an honest heart, And cheer'd the labours of a faithful spouse ; That... | |
 | 1800 - 322 ˹éÒ
...Their lot forbad: nor circuuiscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 ˹éÒ
...spouse; Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame [42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; 'Along... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 ˹éÒ
...spouse ; That virtue form'd, for every decent part, The healthy offspring that adorn'd their house. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame[42]. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ;... | |
 | 1806 - 330 ˹éÒ
...Tiieir lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes coafin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 ˹éÒ
...crrcumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes eonfin'd; Forbade to wade thro' flaughter 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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 ˹éÒ
...nation's eyes, Their lot forhade; nor circnmscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, hut their crimes confm'd; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 ˹éÒ
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 ˹éÒ
...Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the...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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 ˹éÒ
...ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To...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... | |
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