The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayLittle, Brown, 1853 - 223 páginas |
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Página ii
... , also on the Manner of Creating Peers . See this last tract highly praised in Quar- terly Review , No. lxxxiv . p . 303. See King's poem , The Toast , p . 117 . markable at his age ; and his studious and pensive ii LIFE OF GRAY .
... , also on the Manner of Creating Peers . See this last tract highly praised in Quar- terly Review , No. lxxxiv . p . 303. See King's poem , The Toast , p . 117 . markable at his age ; and his studious and pensive ii LIFE OF GRAY .
Página iii
... King's College in the same uni- versity , and West to Christ Church at Oxford . From this period the life of Gray is conducted by his friend and biographer Mr. Mason , through the * In H. Walpole's Works are some letters between West ...
... King's College in the same uni- versity , and West to Christ Church at Oxford . From this period the life of Gray is conducted by his friend and biographer Mr. Mason , through the * In H. Walpole's Works are some letters between West ...
Página viii
... King of the two Sicilies was at Portici , and gave orders for a pro- secution of the subterraneous labours . There was an exca- vation in the time of the Romans ; and another in 1689. In a letter from H. Walpole to West on this subject ...
... King of the two Sicilies was at Portici , and gave orders for a pro- secution of the subterraneous labours . There was an exca- vation in the time of the Romans ; and another in 1689. In a letter from H. Walpole to West on this subject ...
Página xxvii
... translated into Latin verse by Messrs . An- stey and Roberts , and not so successfully by Mr. Lloyd . It has been translated also into Greek by Dr. Cooke , of King's College , 6 Gregory , in a letter to Beattie , says LIFE OF GRAY . xxvii.
... translated into Latin verse by Messrs . An- stey and Roberts , and not so successfully by Mr. Lloyd . It has been translated also into Greek by Dr. Cooke , of King's College , 6 Gregory , in a letter to Beattie , says LIFE OF GRAY . xxvii.
Página xxxv
... King , who is as low in my estimation as in yours . Dr. Evans is a furious mad- man ; and ' Pre - existence ' is nonsense in all her altitudes . Mr. Lyttleton is a gentle elegiac per- son . † Mr. Nugent sure did not write his own Ode ...
... King , who is as low in my estimation as in yours . Dr. Evans is a furious mad- man ; and ' Pre - existence ' is nonsense in all her altitudes . Mr. Lyttleton is a gentle elegiac per- son . † Mr. Nugent sure did not write his own Ode ...
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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...