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... night , and tombs . 3 Comparatively brief imitations of " Night Thoughts " are not wanting , especially in the decades 1750-1770 , al- though they seem to be much less numerous than those of Gray's " Elegy . " Pieces on night or death ...
... night , and tombs . 3 Comparatively brief imitations of " Night Thoughts " are not wanting , especially in the decades 1750-1770 , al- though they seem to be much less numerous than those of Gray's " Elegy . " Pieces on night or death ...
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... night ; such poems will be deeply moral if not actually religious . One of the most pretentious of the treatments of night , after Young's , is of this type : George Harley's long blank verse " Night " ( 1796 ) , which begins with a ...
... night ; such poems will be deeply moral if not actually religious . One of the most pretentious of the treatments of night , after Young's , is of this type : George Harley's long blank verse " Night " ( 1796 ) , which begins with a ...
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... Night " ( another pseudo - Miltonic ode ) , Poems , pp . 56 ff . 11. E.g. , Hester Chapone : " Ode . Written during a violent Storm at Midnight , " Gentleman's Magazine , Jan. , 1777 ; G - e D - n - 1 : " Ode - Night , " Poetical ...
... Night " ( another pseudo - Miltonic ode ) , Poems , pp . 56 ff . 11. E.g. , Hester Chapone : " Ode . Written during a violent Storm at Midnight , " Gentleman's Magazine , Jan. , 1777 ; G - e D - n - 1 : " Ode - Night , " Poetical ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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