The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page xvii
... Milton . But to say nothing of the general principles of all language , how could the writer of an English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is ...
... Milton . But to say nothing of the general principles of all language , how could the writer of an English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is ...
Page xix
... Milton needs to be reminded of even - handed , high - flighted , and trumpet - tongued , or of full - voiced , flowery - kirtled , and fiery - wheeled ? All these expressive and beautiful combinations , Johnson's canon would banish from ...
... Milton needs to be reminded of even - handed , high - flighted , and trumpet - tongued , or of full - voiced , flowery - kirtled , and fiery - wheeled ? All these expressive and beautiful combinations , Johnson's canon would banish from ...
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... Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood " — is expressed more briefly in the following passage of Plautus : " Ut sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent . Hic qualis imperator , nunc privatus est . " Captiv ...
... Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood " — is expressed more briefly in the following passage of Plautus : " Ut sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent . Hic qualis imperator , nunc privatus est . " Captiv ...
Page xxxvii
... Milton : see vol . iii . p . 48 . Gray's Odes were reviewed in the Monthly Review for 1757 , p . 239. They were also reviewed in the Critical Re- view , vol . iv . p . 167 ; in which the critic mistook the Aioλnia μon ( the Æolian lyre ) ...
... Milton : see vol . iii . p . 48 . Gray's Odes were reviewed in the Monthly Review for 1757 , p . 239. They were also reviewed in the Critical Re- view , vol . iv . p . 167 ; in which the critic mistook the Aioλnia μon ( the Æolian lyre ) ...
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... then known . + See T. Warton's Preface to Milton's Minor Poems , p . 1. 10 , for a support of this opinion , and Mason's Life of Whitehead , p . 12 . works which have now raised Gray and Collins to rank Xxxviii LIFE OF GRAY .
... then known . + See T. Warton's Preface to Milton's Minor Poems , p . 1. 10 , for a support of this opinion , and Mason's Life of Whitehead , p . 12 . works which have now raised Gray and Collins to rank Xxxviii LIFE OF GRAY .
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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...