The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayLittle, Brown, 1853 - 223 páginas |
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Página iv
... publication of the kind never appeared in English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I have said , from the time when he left Eton for Cambridge ; but from them it is difficult to trace the line of study which he pursued at ...
... publication of the kind never appeared in English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I have said , from the time when he left Eton for Cambridge ; but from them it is difficult to trace the line of study which he pursued at ...
Página vi
... publication , and do not con- tain a regular account of the observations which he made : but are rather detached and entertain- ing descriptions , intended for the amusement of his friends at home . Every thing which he thought of ...
... publication , and do not con- tain a regular account of the observations which he made : but are rather detached and entertain- ing descriptions , intended for the amusement of his friends at home . Every thing which he thought of ...
Página xxiv
... publication . " This , Walpole wished him to print his own poems with those of his deceased friend West . however , he declined , thinking the materials not sufficient : but he complied with another wish of Walpole , in commemorating in ...
... publication . " This , Walpole wished him to print his own poems with those of his deceased friend West . however , he declined , thinking the materials not sufficient : but he complied with another wish of Walpole , in commemorating in ...
Página xxvi
... publication , I remember sitting with Mr. Gray in his College apartment , he expressed to me his * The thought of that fine stanza in the Elegy , especially of the latter lines " Some village - Hampden , that with dauntless breast The ...
... publication , I remember sitting with Mr. Gray in his College apartment , he expressed to me his * The thought of that fine stanza in the Elegy , especially of the latter lines " Some village - Hampden , that with dauntless breast The ...
Página lix
... publications of Gray , however , were so few , is to be attributed , I think , to several to the natural modesty and ... publication , without bestowing on it that polish and correctness , which demands long and patient attention , and ...
... publications of Gray , however , were so few , is to be attributed , I think , to several to the natural modesty and ... publication , without bestowing on it that polish and correctness , which demands long and patient attention , and ...
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Pasajes populares
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...