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The story of Gray's life is a short and simple one , for it was a life of secluded studiousness spent in the companionship of books , art , and nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal ...
The story of Gray's life is a short and simple one , for it was a life of secluded studiousness spent in the companionship of books , art , and nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal ...
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He looked on a lay figure of nature . He had no thronging imaginations which required the vent of verse . He went abroad in search of ideas , and brought them home to amplify and adorn them . If the beauty of a word or a phrase struck ...
He looked on a lay figure of nature . He had no thronging imaginations which required the vent of verse . He went abroad in search of ideas , and brought them home to amplify and adorn them . If the beauty of a word or a phrase struck ...
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But his sensitive nature shrank from publicity , and he sought the more private position of Clerk of the Journals . To his dismay he learned that to secure this office INTRODUCTION xvii.
But his sensitive nature shrank from publicity , and he sought the more private position of Clerk of the Journals . To his dismay he learned that to secure this office INTRODUCTION xvii.
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In them love of nature , romanticism , naturalness , and spontaneity once more assert themselves , and the Pope - Dryden school was doomed . In 1786 Lady Hesketh , a cousin , took Lady Austen's place in the poet's life .
In them love of nature , romanticism , naturalness , and spontaneity once more assert themselves , and the Pope - Dryden school was doomed . In 1786 Lady Hesketh , a cousin , took Lady Austen's place in the poet's life .
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His views of nature were drawn from personal observation ; all his readers could remember , or at any time see , those which precisely resembled the subjects of his description . He associated no unusual trains of thought , no feelings ...
His views of nature were drawn from personal observation ; all his readers could remember , or at any time see , those which precisely resembled the subjects of his description . He associated no unusual trains of thought , no feelings ...
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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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