The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Volume 1 |
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... Walpole's pas sion was gay society , and of this Florence furnished abundance ; nor was it surprising that , supplied as he was with ample means , he should suit his own youthful inclination . Mr. Gray found , on his arrival , one ...
... Walpole's pas sion was gay society , and of this Florence furnished abundance ; nor was it surprising that , supplied as he was with ample means , he should suit his own youthful inclination . Mr. Gray found , on his arrival , one ...
Page xxvii
... Walpole had determined to spend some months more in Florence , he received intelligence of the immediate election of a new Pope , and though only four days ' journey from Rome , the heat and mal'aria prevented him and his companion from ...
... Walpole had determined to spend some months more in Florence , he received intelligence of the immediate election of a new Pope , and though only four days ' journey from Rome , the heat and mal'aria prevented him and his companion from ...
Page xxviii
... Walpole was afterwards content to bear the blame . He represents , as the cause of the quarrel , that Gray was " too serious a companion " for him . Gray , " he says , was for antiquities , & c . while I was for perpetual balls and ...
... Walpole was afterwards content to bear the blame . He represents , as the cause of the quarrel , that Gray was " too serious a companion " for him . Gray , " he says , was for antiquities , & c . while I was for perpetual balls and ...
Page xxix
... Walpole's general acknow- ledgment of blame , and that too as though he thought the world , judging by its own maxims , would readily acquit him . Deprived thus of the means of gratifying his enlarged curiosity , on the scale that he ...
... Walpole's general acknow- ledgment of blame , and that too as though he thought the world , judging by its own maxims , would readily acquit him . Deprived thus of the means of gratifying his enlarged curiosity , on the scale that he ...
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... Walpole abroad : he had also lost much time in his travels ; a loss which application could not easily retrieve , when so severe and laborious a study as that of the common law was to be the object of it ; and he well knew that ...
... Walpole abroad : he had also lost much time in his travels ; a loss which application could not easily retrieve , when so severe and laborious a study as that of the common law was to be the object of it ; and he well knew that ...
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Page 116 - Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre ; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Page 126 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 124 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 38 - 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 125 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite 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 115 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, ' If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 47 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 43 - Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great ! § SA.
Page 126 - TO fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove, But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Page 62 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.