The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With the Life of the Author : [Containing His Odes, Miscellanies]Cooke, 1800 - 71 pages |
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... thou still oppofe , Thy leaden Ægis ' gainst our ancient foes ? Still stretch , tenacious of thy right divine , The maffy fceptre o'er thy flumbering line ? And dews Lethean through the land difpenfe , To steep in flumbers each ...
... thou still oppofe , Thy leaden Ægis ' gainst our ancient foes ? Still stretch , tenacious of thy right divine , The maffy fceptre o'er thy flumbering line ? And dews Lethean through the land difpenfe , To steep in flumbers each ...
Page xxiii
... thou who , mindful of th ' unhonour'd dead , Dost in thefe notes their artlefs tale relate , By night and lonely contemplation led , To wander in the gloomy walks of fate , Hark ! how the facred calm , that breathes around , Bids every ...
... thou who , mindful of th ' unhonour'd dead , Dost in thefe notes their artlefs tale relate , By night and lonely contemplation led , To wander in the gloomy walks of fate , Hark ! how the facred calm , that breathes around , Bids every ...
Page 28
... thou ? Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets , 45 The fportive kind reply , A folitary fly ! No hive haft thou of hoarded fweets , No painted plumage to display ; On hafty wings thy youth is flown , Thy fun is fet , thy fpring is gone- We ...
... thou ? Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets , 45 The fportive kind reply , A folitary fly ! No hive haft thou of hoarded fweets , No painted plumage to display ; On hafty wings thy youth is flown , Thy fun is fet , thy fpring is gone- We ...
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... thou haft feen Full many a fprightly race , Difporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace , Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny ...
... thou haft feen Full many a fprightly race , Difporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace , Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny ...
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... Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron fcourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain , The proud are taught to taste of pain , And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt ...
... Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron fcourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain , The proud are taught to taste of pain , And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt ...
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Advertiſement Bard beneath bluſh breath Cambridge cenfure courſe Death defigned defire diſplay dreft Dryden's Duke of Grafton Earl Edward effeminacy Eirin Elegy Eolian Eton Eton College ev'ry facred fame fate fecret feems feen fhade fhall fhould figh filent fing fleep flow'rs fmile foft folemn fome foon forrow foul fpirit fpring ftanzas ftate ftill fubject fublime fuch fweet glitt'ring golden Gray guife hail hand Hark Hauberk heart Heav'n Henry VI himſelf King Lady loft Lord Lord Bute lyre Mafon Margaret of Anjou Maſon mind moſt Mufes numbers o'er obferves ODIN paffions Pembroke Hall Petrarch Pindar pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetical Poetry pow'r proftrate Progrefs PROPH purfue Queen rife rofe ſeverity ſhall ſhe Sifters ſtands ſtate ſtudy tear thee thefe theſe thofe THOMAS GRAY thoſe thou thro trembling vale Walpole Weave weep Weft whofe whoſe wing youth