The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages in the University of Cambridge: With Some Account of His Life and Writings; the Whole Carefully Revised; and Illustrated by Notes, Original and Selected; to which are Annexed, Poems Written By, Addressed To, Or in Memory of Mr. Gray; Several of which Were Never Before CollectedJ. Scatcherd, 1799 - 186 pages |
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... thou sand pounds less than its original cost . Gray , therefore , at this time found his patrimony so small , that it would by no means enable him to prosecute the study of the law , without be- coming burdensome to his Mother and Aunt ...
... thou sand pounds less than its original cost . Gray , therefore , at this time found his patrimony so small , that it would by no means enable him to prosecute the study of the law , without be- coming burdensome to his Mother and Aunt ...
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... thou ? fly ! glitt'ring female meets , -t thou of hoarded sweets , ed plumage to display : ngs thy youth is flown ; et , thy spring is gone- - while ' tis May . WAS on a lofty ere China's gayest The azure flowers , t mrest of the tabby ...
... thou ? fly ! glitt'ring female meets , -t thou of hoarded sweets , ed plumage to display : ngs thy youth is flown ; et , thy spring is gone- - while ' tis May . WAS on a lofty ere China's gayest The azure flowers , t mrest of the tabby ...
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... thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race sporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; ho foremost now delight to cleave , ith pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? That idle progeny succeed O ...
... thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race sporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; ho foremost now delight to cleave , ith pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? That idle progeny succeed O ...
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... thou bad'st her know , d from her own she learn'd to melt at others ' woe . Scar'd at thy frown terrific , fly Self - pleasing Folly's idle brood , Wild Laughter , Noise , and thoughtless Joy , And leave us leisure to be good . Light ...
... thou bad'st her know , d from her own she learn'd to melt at others ' woe . Scar'd at thy frown terrific , fly Self - pleasing Folly's idle brood , Wild Laughter , Noise , and thoughtless Joy , And leave us leisure to be good . Light ...
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... thou art seen ) and'ring voice , and threat'ning mien , -caming Horror's funeral cry , d fell Disease , and ghastly Poverty : n benign , oh Goddess ! wear , ilder influence impart , osophic train be there ten , not to wound my heart ...
... thou art seen ) and'ring voice , and threat'ning mien , -caming Horror's funeral cry , d fell Disease , and ghastly Poverty : n benign , oh Goddess ! wear , ilder influence impart , osophic train be there ten , not to wound my heart ...
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ACERONIA Agrippina Anicetus Antrobus awake Ballder Bard Bauli beauty birds breast breathe brow Cambridge Dauphiny death divine dread Dryden's Duke of Grafton Earl earth Edward Eirin Elegy Eolian Eton College fate fear Fierce fire Fragment Gaurus genius give glory grace Gray's grove hand harmony hear Heard ye heart Heav'n honour hundred pounds imitation Joan of Acres kind King Lady Lord lyre Mason mighty Milton's mock the air mountain Muse Nero night o'er Odin Otho passion Petrarch Phlegyas Pindar pleasure Poem Poet Poetry Poppaa Prophetess Prospect of Eton reader reign ring round sable sing Sir William Williams smile solemn song soul spirit Spring stanza taste tear thee THOMAS GRAY thou thought thro throne Tibullus tremble Twas University of Cambridge vale vermil verse voice Volva Walpole weave weep woof
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Page 80 - 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.
Page 79 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 90 - 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 83 - 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...
Page 89 - 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. "Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping, woeful-wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Page 80 - 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 7 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting 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 enthrall?
Page 84 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 86 - 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 85 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.