Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other PoemsRobert Carter & Brothers, 1853 - 186 pages |
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... it still retains its original power to call up those pleasing and pensive associations which the charm of the sentiment , and the perfect grace of the versification , are adapted to CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS • ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD 21.
... it still retains its original power to call up those pleasing and pensive associations which the charm of the sentiment , and the perfect grace of the versification , are adapted to CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS • ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD 21.
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... XXX Their name , their years , spelt by th ' unletter'd Muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . XXXL : This pleasing , anxious being e'er resign'd ;
... XXX Their name , their years , spelt by th ' unletter'd Muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . XXXL : This pleasing , anxious being e'er resign'd ;
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Thomas Gray. XXXL : This pleasing , anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day , Nor cast one longing , lingering look behind ? XXILL Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en. For who , to dumb ...
Thomas Gray. XXXL : This pleasing , anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day , Nor cast one longing , lingering look behind ? XXILL Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en. For who , to dumb ...
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... , Whose turf , whose shade , whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way : * King Henry the Sixth , founder of the College . Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
... , Whose turf , whose shade , whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way : * King Henry the Sixth , founder of the College . Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
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Thomas Gray. Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd , A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As waving fresh their ...
Thomas Gray. Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd , A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As waving fresh their ...
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Page 97 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Page 93 - Ye distant spires, ye antique towers That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Page 104 - Awake, /Eolian 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, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Page 109 - 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 110 - 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 110 - Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace!
Page 184 - 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 99 - DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing 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 before, unpitiet} and alone.
Page 118 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 96 - 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!