The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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... natural kindness of temper had reassumed its place , and we find their correspondence again proceeding on friendly and familiar terms . About this time Gray became acquainted with Mr. Mason , then a scholar of St. John's College , whose ...
... natural kindness of temper had reassumed its place , and we find their correspondence again proceeding on friendly and familiar terms . About this time Gray became acquainted with Mr. Mason , then a scholar of St. John's College , whose ...
Page xxxii
... pocket journal for this year , besides a diary of the weather , and a very accurate calendar of * Vide Gruteri not : ad Plautum , vol . i . p . 295 , 4to . observations on natural history , he kept a regular account xxxii LIFE OF GRAY .
... pocket journal for this year , besides a diary of the weather , and a very accurate calendar of * Vide Gruteri not : ad Plautum , vol . i . p . 295 , 4to . observations on natural history , he kept a regular account xxxii LIFE OF GRAY .
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Thomas Gray. observations on natural history , he kept a regular account of his health in Latin . By this it appears that his constitution was much enfeebled and im- paired , that alarming attacks of the gout were per- petually recurring ...
Thomas Gray. observations on natural history , he kept a regular account of his health in Latin . By this it appears that his constitution was much enfeebled and im- paired , that alarming attacks of the gout were per- petually recurring ...
Page xxxv
... nature ; and are written in a neat and unaffected manner , displaying great benevolence of mind , and gentleness of disposition . Mr. Graves ( the author of the Spiritual Quixote ) wrote a pamphlet , called Recollec- tions of some ...
... nature ; and are written in a neat and unaffected manner , displaying great benevolence of mind , and gentleness of disposition . Mr. Graves ( the author of the Spiritual Quixote ) wrote a pamphlet , called Recollec- tions of some ...
Page xxxvi
... nature her friends . What shall I say to Mr. Lowth , Mr. Ridley , Mr. Rolle , the Rev. Mr. Brown , Seward , & c . ... If I say , Messieurs ! this is not the thing : write prose , write sermons , write nothing at all , ' they will dis ...
... nature her friends . What shall I say to Mr. Lowth , Mr. Ridley , Mr. Rolle , the Rev. Mr. Brown , Seward , & c . ... If I say , Messieurs ! this is not the thing : write prose , write sermons , write nothing at all , ' they will dis ...
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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...