The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page vii
... dying bays . And well the Muse repay'd him . She hath given An unsubstantial world of richer fee ; High thoughts , unchanging visions , that the leaven Of earth partake not ; -Rich then must he be , Who of this cloudless world , this ...
... dying bays . And well the Muse repay'd him . She hath given An unsubstantial world of richer fee ; High thoughts , unchanging visions , that the leaven Of earth partake not ; -Rich then must he be , Who of this cloudless world , this ...
Page xvi
... died in their infancy , from suffocation , produced by a full- ness of blood ; and he owed his life to a memorable instance of the love and courage of his mother , who removed the paroxysm , which attacked him , by opening a vein with ...
... died in their infancy , from suffocation , produced by a full- ness of blood ; and he owed his life to a memorable instance of the love and courage of his mother , who removed the paroxysm , which attacked him , by opening a vein with ...
Page xvi
... died in 1727 or 1728 , aged 36 ; and his grandfather , by the mother's side , was Bishop Burnet . His father was the maternal uncle of Glover the poet , and is supposed to be the author of a tragedy called ' Hecuba , ' published in 1726 ...
... died in 1727 or 1728 , aged 36 ; and his grandfather , by the mother's side , was Bishop Burnet . His father was the maternal uncle of Glover the poet , and is supposed to be the author of a tragedy called ' Hecuba , ' published in 1726 ...
Page xvi
... died in 1775. His niece of the same name married Dr. William Cleaver , Bishop of St. Asaph . See an account of him in Sir Egerton Brydges's Restituta , vol . iv . p . 249 . medium of his Letters ; * concerning which it may LIFE OF GRAY ...
... died in 1775. His niece of the same name married Dr. William Cleaver , Bishop of St. Asaph . See an account of him in Sir Egerton Brydges's Restituta , vol . iv . p . 249 . medium of his Letters ; * concerning which it may LIFE OF GRAY ...
Page xvi
... died ; and they hastened their journey to Rome , in the hope of seeing the instal- lation of his successor . + That Gray would have wished to have extended his travels , and enlarged his prospect beyond these narrow limits , if he had ...
... died ; and they hastened their journey to Rome , in the hope of seeing the instal- lation of his successor . + That Gray would have wished to have extended his travels , and enlarged his prospect beyond these narrow limits , if he had ...
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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...