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... churchyard meditation in elegiac qua- train , 25 also , among the verses ( 1791 ) of John Learmont , a minister of the Scottish Kirk : The village clock had struck the midnight hour ; The moon was set ; —and no translucent ray Did o'er ...
... churchyard meditation in elegiac qua- train , 25 also , among the verses ( 1791 ) of John Learmont , a minister of the Scottish Kirk : The village clock had struck the midnight hour ; The moon was set ; —and no translucent ray Did o'er ...
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... churchyard meditation . Byron's , 33 like White's , reflects longing for burial in some particular spot , but it has the phrase " narrow cell " used by Gray , as well as the gen- eral conception of a churchyard as a place for medita ...
... churchyard meditation . Byron's , 33 like White's , reflects longing for burial in some particular spot , but it has the phrase " narrow cell " used by Gray , as well as the gen- eral conception of a churchyard as a place for medita ...
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... Churchyard , " by J. B. , ibid . , May , 1791 , p . 661 ; and the two elegies in a London Churchyard referred to ante , note 6 . 22. " Woodstock " ( 1761 ) , attributed to Hugh Dalrymple , reprinted in Bell's Fugitive Poetry , IX , 9 ff ...
... Churchyard , " by J. B. , ibid . , May , 1791 , p . 661 ; and the two elegies in a London Churchyard referred to ante , note 6 . 22. " Woodstock " ( 1761 ) , attributed to Hugh Dalrymple , reprinted in Bell's Fugitive Poetry , IX , 9 ff ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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