...the seasons has survived serfdom, plagues, famines, wars, poverty, and the CAP: 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.4 St Omer (1127) led the way for Bruges and Ghent. In north Germany, the selfgovernment...

...Written in a Country Churchyard" Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their wishes never learn 'd to stray, Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. THOMAS HARDY Jude the Obscure (1895) f~j /ARDY's novel of flesh versus spirit —...

...time; some may strike us as crude in their explicit detail or extravagant in their sentimentality:Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected high, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Loughborough...

...Eugène Delacroix, journal entry, 1 847, trans, by Walter Pach (1937). 2 Far from the madding crowd's Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. THOMAS GRAY, (1716-1771) British poet. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,"...

...its sweetness on the desert air. ask 4294 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Far from the madding r ease And sleep an act or two. 10275JuliusCaesar Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like tenor of their way. 4295 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Here rests his head upon the lap of...

...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...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,...

...ironic invocation of Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (xix), 1750: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestred vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Certainly, this novel is no rural...

...abstract construction of rural workers who remained content with their situation: 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. (lines 73-76) Still there is an irony in Pamela's recital that is absent from Gray's...

...shepherds and farmers, like their ancestors who lie under the old gravestones. 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. Flocks are still ushered home from the hillside; they flow hesitantly across low...

...circumscribed . . . confined] denied, restricted ingenuous] guiltless, innocent 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...