Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... stanzas , which succeed this line , are amongst those which are the least relished by the generality . The description of the spell , I know , has appeared to many persons absolutely unintelligible ; yet if the reader adverts to that ...
... stanzas , which succeed this line , are amongst those which are the least relished by the generality . The description of the spell , I know , has appeared to many persons absolutely unintelligible ; yet if the reader adverts to that ...
Page 214
... stanza is more pure , and consequently more obvious . It might have been written by Prior , and the wit at the end is much in his best manner . g Here fancy is again uppermost , and soars as high on her comic , as on ano- ther occasion ...
... stanza is more pure , and consequently more obvious . It might have been written by Prior , and the wit at the end is much in his best manner . g Here fancy is again uppermost , and soars as high on her comic , as on ano- ther occasion ...
Page 215
... stanza is of the sort where wit rather than fancy prevails , consequently much in Prior's manner . n Hagged , i . e . the face of a witch or hag ; the epithet hagard has been sometimes mistaken , as conveying the same idea ; but it ...
... stanza is of the sort where wit rather than fancy prevails , consequently much in Prior's manner . n Hagged , i . e . the face of a witch or hag ; the epithet hagard has been sometimes mistaken , as conveying the same idea ; but it ...
Page 216
... stanzas are lost . ] And so God save our noble king , And guard us from long - winded lubbers , That to eternity would sing , And keep my Lady from her rubbers . LETTER XIV . MR . GRAY TO DR . WHARTON . Dec. 17 , 1750 . OF my house I ...
... stanzas are lost . ] And so God save our noble king , And guard us from long - winded lubbers , That to eternity would sing , And keep my Lady from her rubbers . LETTER XIV . MR . GRAY TO DR . WHARTON . Dec. 17 , 1750 . OF my house I ...
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... stanzas , because the sense is in some places continued beyond them ; and the title must be , Elegy , written in a Coun- try Churchyard . If he would add a line or two to say it came into his hands by accident , I should like it better ...
... stanzas , because the sense is in some places continued beyond them ; and the title must be , Elegy , written in a Coun- try Churchyard . If he would add a line or two to say it came into his hands by accident , I should like it better ...
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