Blake's Water-Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray: With Complete TextsCourier Corporation, 31. dets 2013 - 128 pages At the dawn of the 19th century, Blake created this imaginative series of 116 watercolors to illustrate 13 poems by Thomas Gray. Including such popular poems as "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat," these rarely exhibited treasures remained exclusively in the hands of collectors for close to 175 years. This is the first inexpensive, full-color reproduction, with the complete text of the poems. |
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... wings bespangling every bough like stars . " These childhood incidents help " elucidate the vis- its from the spiritual world of later years , in which the grown man believed as unaffectedly as ever had the boy of ten . " It was , in ...
... wings bespangling every bough like stars . " These childhood incidents help " elucidate the vis- its from the spiritual world of later years , in which the grown man believed as unaffectedly as ever had the boy of ten . " It was , in ...
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... toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repofe : Yet hark , how thro ' the peopled air The bufy murmur glows ! The infect youth are on the wing , Eager to tafte the honied fpring , And Το 45 ODE ON THE SPRING . And float amid.
... toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repofe : Yet hark , how thro ' the peopled air The bufy murmur glows ! The infect youth are on the wing , Eager to tafte the honied fpring , And Το 45 ODE ON THE SPRING . And float amid.
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... to display : On hafty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy fun is fet , thy fpring is gone- We frolic while ' tis May . ODE O DE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT . Summer Flies reproaching the Poet 6 6 "Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets,"
... to display : On hafty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy fun is fet , thy fpring is gone- We frolic while ' tis May . ODE O DE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT . Summer Flies reproaching the Poet 6 6 "Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets,"
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... wing , My weary foul they feem to footh , And , redolent of joy and youth , To breathe a second spring . Say , Father THAMES , for thou haft feen Full many a fprightly race Difporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ...
... wing , My weary foul they feem to footh , And , redolent of joy and youth , To breathe a second spring . Say , Father THAMES , for thou haft feen Full many a fprightly race Difporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ...
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