The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence with Several Eminent Literary Characters. To which are Added, Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 1. köideVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1807 |
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... Church - Yard • IMITATIONS , VARIATIONS , and ADDITIONAL NOTES MEMOIRS.- -SECTION I. INTRODUCTION . - Mr . GRAY's birth . - Education at Eton , where he commences a friendship with the Hon . Horace Walpole , and Mr. Richard West ...
... Church - Yard • IMITATIONS , VARIATIONS , and ADDITIONAL NOTES MEMOIRS.- -SECTION I. INTRODUCTION . - Mr . GRAY's birth . - Education at Eton , where he commences a friendship with the Hon . Horace Walpole , and Mr. Richard West ...
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... Churches and the Palazzo Doria P. 214 LETTER 13. To his MOTHER . - Paintings at Modena.— Bologna . -Beauty and richness of Lombardy p . 216 LETTER 14. To his MOTHER . - The Apennines . - Florence and its gallery . p . 219 LETTER 15. To ...
... Churches and the Palazzo Doria P. 214 LETTER 13. To his MOTHER . - Paintings at Modena.— Bologna . -Beauty and richness of Lombardy p . 216 LETTER 14. To his MOTHER . - The Apennines . - Florence and its gallery . p . 219 LETTER 15. To ...
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... here below , Sits smiling on a Father's woe : This Lady , the Wife of Dr. Clarke , Physician at Epsom , died April 27 , 1757 ; and is buried in the Church of Beckenham , Kent . Whom what awaits , while yet Along the lonely vale.
... here below , Sits smiling on a Father's woe : This Lady , the Wife of Dr. Clarke , Physician at Epsom , died April 27 , 1757 ; and is buried in the Church of Beckenham , Kent . Whom what awaits , while yet Along the lonely vale.
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... cool undaunted breast Victor he stood on Bellisle's rocky steeps ----- Ah ! gallant youth ! this marble tells the rest , Where melancholy Friendship bends , and weeps . ELEGY Written in A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARD . THE 58.
... cool undaunted breast Victor he stood on Bellisle's rocky steeps ----- Ah ! gallant youth ! this marble tells the rest , Where melancholy Friendship bends , and weeps . ELEGY Written in A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARD . THE 58.
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... CHURCH - YARD . THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea , The plowman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the ...
... CHURCH - YARD . THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea , The plowman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the ...
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Page 107 - 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.
Page 60 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the' inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 65 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 9 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 64 - Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred Spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 26 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart...
Page 31 - What strings symphonious tremble in the air, What strains of vocal transport round her play ! Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear; They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. Bright rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.
Page 8 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 89 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 16 - Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they. flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Thro