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... stanza , al- though two or three show traces of his influence in idea or in phrase . It is more nearly true , then , to say that Gray's stanza is usually elegiac than to say that elegies or poems in what we have called the elegiac mood ...
... stanza , al- though two or three show traces of his influence in idea or in phrase . It is more nearly true , then , to say that Gray's stanza is usually elegiac than to say that elegies or poems in what we have called the elegiac mood ...
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... stanza and the first part frequently paraphrases Gray . Then there is a series of meditations on the possible inhabitants of individual tombs , somewhat after the manner of Hervey , and a long death- bed scene which probably owes ...
... stanza and the first part frequently paraphrases Gray . Then there is a series of meditations on the possible inhabitants of individual tombs , somewhat after the manner of Hervey , and a long death- bed scene which probably owes ...
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... stanza ( Chal- mers , XVI , 292 f ) . Richard Polwhele's " Ossian Departing to his Fathers " ( 1780 ) ( Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall , I , 148 ff ) is in elegiac stanza . 99. Jenyns : passage from " Carthon ...
... stanza ( Chal- mers , XVI , 292 f ) . Richard Polwhele's " Ossian Departing to his Fathers " ( 1780 ) ( Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall , I , 148 ff ) is in elegiac stanza . 99. Jenyns : passage from " Carthon ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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