The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayLittle, Brown, 1853 - 223 páginas |
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... expression ; notwithstanding the incidents of his life were pe- culiarly few in number , nor any of them remark- able , yet a more interesting publication of the kind never appeared in English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I ...
... expression ; notwithstanding the incidents of his life were pe- culiarly few in number , nor any of them remark- able , yet a more interesting publication of the kind never appeared in English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I ...
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... expressions which Gray uses in his letter to Mr. Wharton on this subject . Some letters from Walpole to West , while the former was on his travels with Gray , are in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419-463 . There is one letter from ...
... expressions which Gray uses in his letter to Mr. Wharton on this subject . Some letters from Walpole to West , while the former was on his travels with Gray , are in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419-463 . There is one letter from ...
Página xvi
... expression in Gray's Ode to Spring , by the late 6 * West was buried in the chancel of Hatfield church , be- neath a stone , with the following epitaph : " Here lieth the body of Richard West , esq . only son of the right honourable ...
... expression in Gray's Ode to Spring , by the late 6 * West was buried in the chancel of Hatfield church , be- neath a stone , with the following epitaph : " Here lieth the body of Richard West , esq . only son of the right honourable ...
Página xxxiii
... Expressions similar to the following , are in almost every page : ' Insomnia crebra , atque expergiscenti surdus quidam doloris sensus ; frequens etiam in regione sterni oppressio , et cardialgia gravis , fere sempi- terna . " " The ...
... Expressions similar to the following , are in almost every page : ' Insomnia crebra , atque expergiscenti surdus quidam doloris sensus ; frequens etiam in regione sterni oppressio , et cardialgia gravis , fere sempi- terna . " " The ...
Página lvii
... expressing , says his friend Dr. Brown , no visible concern at the thought of his approaching death . The care of his funeral devolved on one of his executors , Dr. Brown , the president of Pembroke - hall ; who saw him buried , as he ...
... expressing , says his friend Dr. Brown , no visible concern at the thought of his approaching death . The care of his funeral devolved on one of his executors , Dr. Brown , the president of Pembroke - hall ; who saw him buried , as he ...
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Página 100 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Página 3 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
Página 4 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Página 6 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ! where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise ! ODE IV.
Página 99 - The next, with dirges due in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne ; Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 33 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 42 - But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail.
Página 114 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Página 31 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página xcv - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...