 | George Coles - 1854 - 336 sider
...a quiet nook as that in which this interesting and happy family resided ! " Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool scquester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." The next Wednesday, in going... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1855 - 282 sider
...heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muae't flame. "Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequesterM vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. " Yet ev'n these bones, from insult... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 sider
...heap the shrine of Luxury and 1'ride With incense kindled at tliu Muse's 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 tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some... | |
 | Uncle George, George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 232 sider
..." Our wooing doth not end like an old play ; Jack hath not Jill." SHAKSPERE. " 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 tenor of their way." GRAY. " There are they met — the young and fond... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 sider
...poor'. It is ambiguous because it at once ratifies this remote simplicity — 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 tenour of their way — and admits, with an edge of protest, the social... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 sider
...Church-Yard is another great Augustan poem written in iambic pentameter quatrains. 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 tenor of their way. (lines 73-6) This very example, however, brings us... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - 1989 - 702 sider
...forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; 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 tenor of their way.17 In fact, Defoe has Crusoe quote two lines of a song... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 sider
...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's 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 tenour of their way. (57-76) The reappearance of "blushes" in the later... | |
 | Janet Semple - 1993 - 362 sider
...eighteenth-century romantic melancholy, evokes a happy rural innocence where: 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 tenor of their way. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield described his refuge... | |
 | Hillel Matthew Daleski - 1997 - 492 sider
...continuing to evoke "pastoral affairs" (74), has a decidedly ironic dimension: 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 tenor of their way. The narrative may be located in a sequestered vale... | |
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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 tenor of their way. 
