The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page xvi
... once and since that I have lived with Mr. Chute , who is all vehemence ; with Mr. Fox , who is all disputation ; with Sir C. Williams , who has no time from flattery , himself ; and with Gray , who does not hate to find fault with me ...
... once and since that I have lived with Mr. Chute , who is all vehemence ; with Mr. Fox , who is all disputation ; with Sir C. Williams , who has no time from flattery , himself ; and with Gray , who does not hate to find fault with me ...
Page xvi
Thomas Gray. as speedily and directly as he could , yet he once diverged from his way , between Turin and Lyons , again to contemplate the wild and magnificent sce- nery that surrounded the Grande Chartreuse ; and in the Album of the ...
Thomas Gray. as speedily and directly as he could , yet he once diverged from his way , between Turin and Lyons , again to contemplate the wild and magnificent sce- nery that surrounded the Grande Chartreuse ; and in the Album of the ...
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... once ; it al- › finds some disposition of the mind favourable eceive it , some passion which cannot resist its er , some feelings which participate in its sor- . Much time elapses , before works of elabo- structure , of lofty flight ...
... once ; it al- › finds some disposition of the mind favourable eceive it , some passion which cannot resist its er , some feelings which participate in its sor- . Much time elapses , before works of elabo- structure , of lofty flight ...
Page xlv
... once owned to me , that they re- 1 of the attempt . " ring Gray's residence in London , he became ly acquainted with the amiable naturalist Stillingfleet , whose death took place a few is after his own . " At the request of Mr. agu , he ...
... once owned to me , that they re- 1 of the attempt . " ring Gray's residence in London , he became ly acquainted with the amiable naturalist Stillingfleet , whose death took place a few is after his own . " At the request of Mr. agu , he ...
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... once lived from choice , and continued to do so from obliga- tion . " In one of his conversations with Dr. Beattie , * who expressed himself with less admira- tion of Dryden than Gray thought his due ; he told him , " that if there was ...
... once lived from choice , and continued to do so from obliga- tion . " In one of his conversations with Dr. Beattie , * who expressed himself with less admira- tion of Dryden than Gray thought his due ; he told him , " that if there was ...
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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...