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... . LORD JEFFREY , Edinburgh Review for April , 1803 . His language has such a masculine , idiomatic strength , and his manner , whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence , has so much plain XX INTRODUCTION Appreciations •
... . LORD JEFFREY , Edinburgh Review for April , 1803 . His language has such a masculine , idiomatic strength , and his manner , whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence , has so much plain XX INTRODUCTION Appreciations •
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Thomas Gray. grace or falls into negligence , has so much plain and familiar freedom , that we read no poetry with a deeper conviction of its sentiments having come from the author's heart , and of the enthusiasm , in whatever he ...
Thomas Gray. grace or falls into negligence , has so much plain and familiar freedom , that we read no poetry with a deeper conviction of its sentiments having come from the author's heart , and of the enthusiasm , in whatever he ...
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Thomas Gray. No pitying heart , no eye , afford A tear to grace his obsequies . Is the sable warrior fled ° ? Thy son is gone . He rests among the dead . 65 65 The swarm , that in thy noontide beam were born ? Gone to salute the rising ...
Thomas Gray. No pitying heart , no eye , afford A tear to grace his obsequies . Is the sable warrior fled ° ? Thy son is gone . He rests among the dead . 65 65 The swarm , that in thy noontide beam were born ? Gone to salute the rising ...
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... grace . What strings symphonious tremble in the air ! What strains of vocal transport round her play ! Hear from the grave , great Taliessin , hear ; O 121 They breathe a soul to animate thy clay . Bright Rapture calls , and soaring as ...
... grace . What strings symphonious tremble in the air ! What strains of vocal transport round her play ! Hear from the grave , great Taliessin , hear ; O 121 They breathe a soul to animate thy clay . Bright Rapture calls , and soaring as ...
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... grace , For folks in fear are apt to pray ) To Phoebus he preferred his case , And begged his aid that dreadful day . The godhead would have backed his quarrel ; But with a blush , on recollection , Owned that his quiver and his laurel ...
... grace , For folks in fear are apt to pray ) To Phoebus he preferred his case , And begged his aid that dreadful day . The godhead would have backed his quarrel ; But with a blush , on recollection , Owned that his quiver and his laurel ...
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