The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayLittle, Brown, 1853 - 223 pages |
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... morn Gave to the Muse , so best might he adorn His thoughtful brow with never - dying bays . And well the Muse repaid him . She hath given An unsubstantial world of richer fee ; -- High thoughts , unchanging visions , that the leaven Of ...
... morn Gave to the Muse , so best might he adorn His thoughtful brow with never - dying bays . And well the Muse repaid him . She hath given An unsubstantial world of richer fee ; -- High thoughts , unchanging visions , that the leaven Of ...
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... morning ; and seems seldom to have been free from pain , debility , and disease . Expressions similar to the following , are in almost every page : ' Insomnia crebra , atque expergiscenti surdus quidam doloris sensus ; frequens etiam in ...
... morning ; and seems seldom to have been free from pain , debility , and disease . Expressions similar to the following , are in almost every page : ' Insomnia crebra , atque expergiscenti surdus quidam doloris sensus ; frequens etiam in ...
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... morning at Stoke - Pogeis ; * and accord- ingly was put in lead , and conveyed from Cambridge on Sunday morning , with a design to rest at Hoddesdon the first night , and Salt - hill on Monday night , from whence he might be very early ...
... morning at Stoke - Pogeis ; * and accord- ingly was put in lead , and conveyed from Cambridge on Sunday morning , with a design to rest at Hoddesdon the first night , and Salt - hill on Monday night , from whence he might be very early ...
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... morning that I passed at Cambridge , was in company with Mr. Gray , and some critics , at the rehearsal of the music for his ode , previous to its grand performance at the Senate House : and I thought that as he had so many directions ...
... morning that I passed at Cambridge , was in company with Mr. Gray , and some critics , at the rehearsal of the music for his ode , previous to its grand performance at the Senate House : and I thought that as he had so many directions ...
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... morning call would permit . As Gray always affixed the date to everything he wrote , which , as Mr. Mathias assured me , was the custom of Pe- trarch , it seems that he wrote his remarks on Pindar at rather an early age . I think the ...
... morning call would permit . As Gray always affixed the date to everything he wrote , which , as Mr. Mathias assured me , was the custom of Pe- trarch , it seems that he wrote his remarks on Pindar at rather an early age . I think the ...
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Page 100 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 3 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
Page 4 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 6 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ! where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise ! ODE IV.
Page 99 - The next, with dirges due in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne ; Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 33 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Page 42 - But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail.
Page 114 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 31 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page xcv - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...