The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayW. Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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... editor has only further to observe , that he has formed the following selection according to the best of his judgment : he has made a few trifling omissions where the subject turned on mere matters of business ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
... editor has only further to observe , that he has formed the following selection according to the best of his judgment : he has made a few trifling omissions where the subject turned on mere matters of business ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
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... formed from them are among the commonest words in our language . Shakspeare , in a ludicrous but expressive phrase , has converted even a proper name into a participle of this description : Pe- . truchio , ' he says , ' is kated .'- The ...
... formed from them are among the commonest words in our language . Shakspeare , in a ludicrous but expressive phrase , has converted even a proper name into a participle of this description : Pe- . truchio , ' he says , ' is kated .'- The ...
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... formed and used , in strict conformity with the genius of our language . Su- gard is an epithet frequent in our ancient poetry , and its use was properly long anterior to that of the verb , of which it now appears to be a parti- ciple ...
... formed and used , in strict conformity with the genius of our language . Su- gard is an epithet frequent in our ancient poetry , and its use was properly long anterior to that of the verb , of which it now appears to be a parti- ciple ...
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... forming for his own instruction a Table of Greek Chronology , which extended from the 30th to the 113th Olympiad , a period of 332 years ; and which , while it did not exclude public events , was chiefly designed to compare the time of ...
... forming for his own instruction a Table of Greek Chronology , which extended from the 30th to the 113th Olympiad , a period of 332 years ; and which , while it did not exclude public events , was chiefly designed to compare the time of ...
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... formed his judgment , and harmonized his verse ; for even his wood - notes often break out into Reading would 6 strains of real poetry and music . The School- Mistress is excellent in its kind , and masterly : fifth and sixth volumes ...
... formed his judgment , and harmonized his verse ; for even his wood - notes often break out into Reading would 6 strains of real poetry and music . The School- Mistress is excellent in its kind , and masterly : fifth and sixth volumes ...
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Page 35 - 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 109 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "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, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 34 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year ; Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 12 - 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 14 - 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!
Page 101 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.
Page 96 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 37 - Thro' the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun: Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate: Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great T.
Page 97 - Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share.
Page 105 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.