Gray & His PoetryG.G. Harrap, 1927 - 111 pages |
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... beauty -the first to put into words the feelings which they now stir in every sympathetic mind . Writing , in September 1737 , to Walpole , and referring to his uncle , who had formerly been a great hunter , " though gout now forbad his ...
... beauty -the first to put into words the feelings which they now stir in every sympathetic mind . Writing , in September 1737 , to Walpole , and referring to his uncle , who had formerly been a great hunter , " though gout now forbad his ...
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... conveyance , of much greater use than beauty , resembling an ill - shaped chariot , only with the door opening before instead of [ at ] the side . ” hitherto has been flat , open , and agreeably diversified 22 GRAY & HIS POETRY.
... conveyance , of much greater use than beauty , resembling an ill - shaped chariot , only with the door opening before instead of [ at ] the side . ” hitherto has been flat , open , and agreeably diversified 22 GRAY & HIS POETRY.
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... beauty under the influence of which men had lost all feeling for nature except when nature was reduced to order and symmetry by line and rule . " We find the works of nature still more pleasing the more they resemble art , " wrote ...
... beauty under the influence of which men had lost all feeling for nature except when nature was reduced to order and symmetry by line and rule . " We find the works of nature still more pleasing the more they resemble art , " wrote ...
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... beauty . He had a tepid appreciation of it very charac- teristic both of the man and of the time ; he went so far as to admit , with polite condescen- sion , that " even the imperfections of nature " may have something pleasing about ...
... beauty . He had a tepid appreciation of it very charac- teristic both of the man and of the time ; he went so far as to admit , with polite condescen- sion , that " even the imperfections of nature " may have something pleasing about ...
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... beauty as a poem for all time will be not diminished , but enhanced for us if , in reading it , we keep these points in mind . One word may be added about the general character of its thought . It is often said that the " Elegy Owes its ...
... beauty as a poem for all time will be not diminished , but enhanced for us if , in reading it , we keep these points in mind . One word may be added about the general character of its thought . It is often said that the " Elegy Owes its ...
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