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Page vii
... Death of Richard West Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat The Progress of Poesy The Bard The Fatal Sisters The Descent of Odin The Triumphs of Owen The Death of Hoel Carądoc Conan . Sketch of his own Character William Shakespeare Song ...
... Death of Richard West Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat The Progress of Poesy The Bard The Fatal Sisters The Descent of Odin The Triumphs of Owen The Death of Hoel Carądoc Conan . Sketch of his own Character William Shakespeare Song ...
Page xi
... Death of Richard West " ( West died on June 1 ) , " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College , " and " Hymn to Adversity " all belong to this period , besides the opening stanzas of the " Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard " and ...
... Death of Richard West " ( West died on June 1 ) , " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College , " and " Hymn to Adversity " all belong to this period , besides the opening stanzas of the " Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard " and ...
Page xii
... death of his mother , for whom he mourned the rest of his life , as he was devotedly attached to her . After the latter event he turned again to poetry for com- fort , and in 1754 wrote the " Ode to Vicissitude " and " The Progress of ...
... death of his mother , for whom he mourned the rest of his life , as he was devotedly attached to her . After the latter event he turned again to poetry for com- fort , and in 1754 wrote the " Ode to Vicissitude " and " The Progress of ...
Page xiv
... death , with the public as with the few ; and Gray's second biographer , Mitford , remarks that " the works which were either neglected or ridiculed by their contem- poraries have now raised Gray and Collins to the rank of our two ...
... death , with the public as with the few ; and Gray's second biographer , Mitford , remarks that " the works which were either neglected or ridiculed by their contem- poraries have now raised Gray and Collins to the rank of our two ...
Page xix
... too late to be of any real service , for death was near at hand . He died at East Dereham , Norfolk , on April 25 , 1800 , and was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel in that village . On his monument the following stanza is INTRODUCTION xix.
... too late to be of any real service , for death was near at hand . He died at East Dereham , Norfolk , on April 25 , 1800 , and was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel in that village . On his monument the following stanza is INTRODUCTION xix.
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote