The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayLittle, Brown, 1853 - 223 páginas |
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Página xiv
... spirit and genius than ever informed the works of that ele- gant and correct tragedian . Mr. Mason , in a let- ter to Dr. Beattie , mentions among the Poetry left by Gray , " the opening scene of a tragedy called Agrippina , with the ...
... spirit and genius than ever informed the works of that ele- gant and correct tragedian . Mr. Mason , in a let- ter to Dr. Beattie , mentions among the Poetry left by Gray , " the opening scene of a tragedy called Agrippina , with the ...
Página xix
... intentioned , but very ill - regu- lated mind , the success of a contemporary had been permitted to excite . " The true spirit indeed of this criticism appears with no less force in what almost immediately fol- lows LIFE OF GRAY . xix.
... intentioned , but very ill - regu- lated mind , the success of a contemporary had been permitted to excite . " The true spirit indeed of this criticism appears with no less force in what almost immediately fol- lows LIFE OF GRAY . xix.
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... spirits , which prevented his application to poetry and from this period we may trace the course of that hereditary disease in his constitu- tion , which embittered in a considerable degree the remainder of his days ; and the fatal ...
... spirits , which prevented his application to poetry and from this period we may trace the course of that hereditary disease in his constitu- tion , which embittered in a considerable degree the remainder of his days ; and the fatal ...
Página xxxv
... spirit of the original . The same man's * Verses at the Opening of Garrick's Theatre are far from bad . Mr. Dyer has more of poetry in his imagination , than almost any of our number ; but rough and in- judicious . I should range Mr ...
... spirit of the original . The same man's * Verses at the Opening of Garrick's Theatre are far from bad . Mr. Dyer has more of poetry in his imagination , than almost any of our number ; but rough and in- judicious . I should range Mr ...
Página xl
... spirit could not readily recom- mend itself ; till after a more attentive perusal , they had got the better of their prejudices , and either acquired , or affected a truer taste . A few others stood aloof , merely because they had long ...
... spirit could not readily recom- mend itself ; till after a more attentive perusal , they had got the better of their prejudices , and either acquired , or affected a truer taste . A few others stood aloof , merely because they had long ...
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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...