Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... with memory to retain , They follow pleasure , and they fly from pain ; Their judgment mends the plan their fancy draws , The event presages , and explores the cause ; The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude ...
... with memory to retain , They follow pleasure , and they fly from pain ; Their judgment mends the plan their fancy draws , The event presages , and explores the cause ; The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude ...
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II 5 So Tongue was the lawyer , and argued the cause With a great deal of skill , and a wig full of learning , a While Chief Baron Ear sat to balance the laws , 92 COWPER'S POEMS Report of an Adjudged Case.
II 5 So Tongue was the lawyer , and argued the cause With a great deal of skill , and a wig full of learning , a While Chief Baron Ear sat to balance the laws , 92 COWPER'S POEMS Report of an Adjudged Case.
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90 With all these hideous howlings to the skies , I could be much composed , nor should appear , For such a cause , to feel the slightest fear . Yourselves have seen , what time the thunders rolled All night , me resting quiet in the ...
90 With all these hideous howlings to the skies , I could be much composed , nor should appear , For such a cause , to feel the slightest fear . Yourselves have seen , what time the thunders rolled All night , me resting quiet in the ...
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Be it Dapple's bray , 115 Or be it not , or be it whose it may , And rush those other sounds , that seem by tongue Of demons uttered , from whatever lungs , Sounds are but sounds , and till the cause appear , We have at least commodious ...
Be it Dapple's bray , 115 Or be it not , or be it whose it may , And rush those other sounds , that seem by tongue Of demons uttered , from whatever lungs , Sounds are but sounds , and till the cause appear , We have at least commodious ...
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15 To poets of renown in song The nymphs referred the cause , Who , strange to tell , all judged it wrong , And gave misplaced applause . 20 They gentle called , and kind and soft , The flippant and the scold , And though she changed ...
15 To poets of renown in song The nymphs referred the cause , Who , strange to tell , all judged it wrong , And gave misplaced applause . 20 They gentle called , and kind and soft , The flippant and the scold , And though she changed ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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