The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayLittle, Brown, 1853 - 223 páginas |
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... POEMS . Ode . On the Spring . 1 of Gold Fishes Ode . On the Death of a favourite Cat , drowned in a Tub • Ode . On a Distant Prospect of Eton College 6 10 Hymn to Adversity 17 The Progress of Poesy 22 The Bard 38 Ode for Music 61 The ...
... POEMS . Ode . On the Spring . 1 of Gold Fishes Ode . On the Death of a favourite Cat , drowned in a Tub • Ode . On a Distant Prospect of Eton College 6 10 Hymn to Adversity 17 The Progress of Poesy 22 The Bard 38 Ode for Music 61 The ...
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... Poem on the Gaurus A Farewell to Florence 173 • • 177 183 · 187 188 188 189 • 192 196 197 198 Imitation of an Italian Sonnet of Signior Abbate Buon- delmonte Alcaic Ode Part of an Heroic Epistle from Sophonisba to Masinissa 200 De ...
... Poem on the Gaurus A Farewell to Florence 173 • • 177 183 · 187 188 188 189 • 192 196 197 198 Imitation of an Italian Sonnet of Signior Abbate Buon- delmonte Alcaic Ode Part of an Heroic Epistle from Sophonisba to Masinissa 200 De ...
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... 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 .
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... Poem on the ' Gaurus ' to West . He remained , however , at that place about eleven months ; and during this time commenced his Latin poem ' De Principiis Cogitandi . ' He then set off with Walpole , on the 24th of April , for Bologna ...
... Poem on the ' Gaurus ' to West . He remained , however , at that place about eleven months ; and during this time commenced his Latin poem ' De Principiis Cogitandi . ' He then set off with Walpole , on the 24th of April , for Bologna ...
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... poems have never been fully collected . There is one , An Ode to Mary Magdalene , ' in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419 : another in Dalrymple's Songs , p . 142. In the European Ma- gazine for January , 1798 , p . 45 , is a poem ...
... poems have never been fully collected . There is one , An Ode to Mary Magdalene , ' in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419 : another in Dalrymple's Songs , p . 142. In the European Ma- gazine for January , 1798 , p . 45 , is a poem ...
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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...