The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page xvi
... English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I have said , from the time when he left Eton for Cambridge ; but from them it is difficult to trace the line of study which he pursued at College . His letters treat chiefly of his ...
... English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I have said , from the time when he left Eton for Cambridge ; but from them it is difficult to trace the line of study which he pursued at College . His letters treat chiefly of his ...
Page xvi
... English Translation of part of the fourteenth canto of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata , ' which is inserted in the present edition . From September till the following March , Gray resided at his fa- ther's house but his correspondence ...
... English Translation of part of the fourteenth canto of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata , ' which is inserted in the present edition . From September till the following March , Gray resided at his fa- ther's house but his correspondence ...
Page xvi
... English travellers , and see a little of the coun- try . Throw yourselves into the bosom of the Apen- nine ; survey the horrid lake of Amsanctus ; catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno ; expatiate to the very toe of the ...
... English travellers , and see a little of the coun- try . Throw yourselves into the bosom of the Apen- nine ; survey the horrid lake of Amsanctus ; catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno ; expatiate to the very toe of the ...
Page xvi
... English travellers who visited the remains of Herculaneum , * as it was dis- covered only the preceding year ; and he pointed out to his companion , the description in Statius that pictured the latent city : " Hæc ego Chalcidicis ad te ...
... English travellers who visited the remains of Herculaneum , * as it was dis- covered only the preceding year ; and he pointed out to his companion , the description in Statius that pictured the latent city : " Hæc ego Chalcidicis ad te ...
Page xvii
... English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is of the very essence of our own tongue , derived to it from its Saxon origin , and a main source of ...
... English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is of the very essence of our own tongue , derived to it from its Saxon origin , and a main source of ...
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Page 35 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 106 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 63 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Page 109 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "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, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 46 - Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway...
Page cxiv - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 127 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 14 - 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 97 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield!
Page cxi - 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...