Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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The great improvement that has taken place , within a few years , in the art of
Engraving on Wood , as well as its general adoption , in some measure
superseding the use of Copper and Steel , led to the present attempt to apply this
mode of ...
The great improvement that has taken place , within a few years , in the art of
Engraving on Wood , as well as its general adoption , in some measure
superseding the use of Copper and Steel , led to the present attempt to apply this
mode of ...
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Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their
team a - field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! NEW YOR
VoiCkaki A TIX AN VIII . Their homely. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Let
not ...
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their
team a - field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! NEW YOR
VoiCkaki A TIX AN VIII . Their homely. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Let
not ...
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Hard by yon wood , now smiling , as in scorn , Muttering his wayward fancies , he
would rove ; Now drooping , woeful , wan , like one forlorn , Or craz'd with care ,
or cross'd in hopeless love . TinEW YORK BLIC LIBRARI ATOM , LINUXAVO ...
Hard by yon wood , now smiling , as in scorn , Muttering his wayward fancies , he
would rove ; Now drooping , woeful , wan , like one forlorn , Or craz'd with care ,
or cross'd in hopeless love . TinEW YORK BLIC LIBRARI ATOM , LINUXAVO ...
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One morn , I miss'd him on the ' custom'd hill , Along the heath , and near his
favourite tree ; Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood , was he ; XXIX . Slow through
the church - way path we. Another came , —nor yet beside the rill , “ The next ,
with ...
One morn , I miss'd him on the ' custom'd hill , Along the heath , and near his
favourite tree ; Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood , was he ; XXIX . Slow through
the church - way path we. Another came , —nor yet beside the rill , “ The next ,
with ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | John Martin |
| Illustrated by | Reuben S. Gilbert |
| Publisher | Moore, 1845 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 11 pages |
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