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... person , who has put together verses him- self , and to whom I communicated this observation , have I been called upon to take notice , that the author has descri- bed himself , in the Elegy , as carrying on his musing by moon - light ...
... person , who has put together verses him- self , and to whom I communicated this observation , have I been called upon to take notice , that the author has descri- bed himself , in the Elegy , as carrying on his musing by moon - light ...
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... persons had been spoken of , is awkward . " Their bones , " would have been less exception- able . To " protect from insult , " is pro- saic ; and , if the end of the " memorial " was this protection , there is no necessity that we be ...
... persons had been spoken of , is awkward . " Their bones , " would have been less exception- able . To " protect from insult , " is pro- saic ; and , if the end of the " memorial " was this protection , there is no necessity that we be ...
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... persons , that were last mentioned : and a nomenclature of bones , followed with the age of each , engraved over their respective repositories , is too ludicrous a fancy to be allowed sanction in the judgment for a moment . Of the ...
... persons , that were last mentioned : and a nomenclature of bones , followed with the age of each , engraved over their respective repositories , is too ludicrous a fancy to be allowed sanction in the judgment for a moment . Of the ...
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... person , whom the doctor , with more of com- pliment than correctness , designates " a Professor of the art of Music . " The decision of this person is before me . It runs thus : " The Idea of the Rondeau in music is tolera- " bly ...
... person , whom the doctor , with more of com- pliment than correctness , designates " a Professor of the art of Music . " The decision of this person is before me . It runs thus : " The Idea of the Rondeau in music is tolera- " bly ...
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... person designated above , pronounces , in relation to the application of the principle of the Musical Rondeau to POETRY , the following judgment : " In this transference , " an analogous identification and diversification should be ...
... person designated above , pronounces , in relation to the application of the principle of the Musical Rondeau to POETRY , the following judgment : " In this transference , " an analogous identification and diversification should be ...
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Page 54 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 3 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 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 9 - 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 4 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 8 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 1 - ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD / THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 104 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 2 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...
Page 7 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, 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 5 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...