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... elegiac in the sense in which Gray is elegiac , and the move- ment of the stanza is a world away from that of the " Elegy . " Of the other four poems , one is an epitaph , dated 1796 , melancholy but metrically imperfect . One is Mrs ...
... elegiac in the sense in which Gray is elegiac , and the move- ment of the stanza is a world away from that of the " Elegy . " Of the other four poems , one is an epitaph , dated 1796 , melancholy but metrically imperfect . One is Mrs ...
Page 115
... elegiac in blank verse than in couplet ; and the original is by far the most elegiac of all . In George Hervey's version ( 1814 ) may be seen the effects of various meters , for he has put into practice the knowledge of old popular ...
... elegiac in blank verse than in couplet ; and the original is by far the most elegiac of all . In George Hervey's version ( 1814 ) may be seen the effects of various meters , for he has put into practice the knowledge of old popular ...
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... elegiac stanza appeared , along with an heroic couplet rendering of Fragment XII , in Scots Magazine , XXII , 360 ff ( July , 1760 ) ; the elegiac version is called " a piece in the taste of the celebrated Mr. Gray . " Edward Lovibond ...
... elegiac stanza appeared , along with an heroic couplet rendering of Fragment XII , in Scots Magazine , XXII , 360 ff ( July , 1760 ) ; the elegiac version is called " a piece in the taste of the celebrated Mr. Gray . " Edward Lovibond ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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