...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 learned...sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected...

...the Arundines Cami they will find we have done Mr. Macaulay no injustice :— Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Spe» procul ii strepitu, procul a certamine vulgi Non humilia limen tranmlicre...

...heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incensó kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected...

...the Arundines Cami they will find we have done Mr. Macaulay no injustice : — Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Spe» procul ii strepitu, procul a certamine vulgi Non humilia limen tranmlicre...

...heap the shrine of luxury and pride "With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Vet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected...

...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...cool sequestered 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...

...19 of Thomas Gray's (1716-71) "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751): "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife / Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." Thomas Hardy used Gray's phrase...

...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...cool, sequestered 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...

...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...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray 1750) The first lines of Gray's elegy have provided...

...kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never leamed to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh,...