The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page xi
... manner , with copies of the original letters om Gray to Mr. Taylor How , and he has found e same plan of transposition of sentences and teration of style pursued by Mr. Mason in them . he blank spaces which sometimes occur in the ...
... manner , with copies of the original letters om Gray to Mr. Taylor How , and he has found e same plan of transposition of sentences and teration of style pursued by Mr. Mason in them . he blank spaces which sometimes occur in the ...
Page xii
... manner , and the valuable remarks which he made on the works of ancient and modern art which he saw at Rome . To Mr. Rogers , the ready and generous friend of every attempt to improve and illustrate the art which he has cultivated with ...
... manner , and the valuable remarks which he made on the works of ancient and modern art which he saw at Rome . To Mr. Rogers , the ready and generous friend of every attempt to improve and illustrate the art which he has cultivated with ...
Page xvi
... Attainder , also on the Manner of Creating Peers . See this last tract highly praised in Quarterly Review , No. lxxxiv . p . 303. See King's poem , The Toast , p . 117 . and his studious and pensive habits of mind , his ii LIFE OF GRAY .
... Attainder , also on the Manner of Creating Peers . See this last tract highly praised in Quarterly Review , No. lxxxiv . p . 303. See King's poem , The Toast , p . 117 . and his studious and pensive habits of mind , his ii LIFE OF GRAY .
Page xvi
... , " the opening scene of a tragedy called Agrip- pina , with the first speech of the second , written much in Racine's manner , and with many masterly strokes . " * The language resembles rather that of xiv LIFE OF GRAY .
... , " the opening scene of a tragedy called Agrip- pina , with the first speech of the second , written much in Racine's manner , and with many masterly strokes . " * The language resembles rather that of xiv LIFE OF GRAY .
Page xxix
... manner , by Dodsley , but without the apparent knowledge or approbation of the author . It is to be observed , that in the early editions , the Elegy is not printed in stanzas of four lines , but continuously . It is also written in the ...
... manner , by Dodsley , but without the apparent knowledge or approbation of the author . It is to be observed , that in the early editions , the Elegy is not printed in stanzas of four lines , but continuously . It is also written in the ...
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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...