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... nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal uncle , an assistant master in the school . Here he made the acquaintance of Horace Walpole , Richard West , and Thomas Ashton , who exercised ...
... nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal uncle , an assistant master in the school . Here he made the acquaintance of Horace Walpole , Richard West , and Thomas Ashton , who exercised ...
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... nature . He had no throng- ing 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 him , he worked . - it into ...
... nature . He had no throng- ing 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 him , he worked . - it into ...
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... of the Private Committees in the House of Lords . But his sensi- tive 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.
... of the Private Committees in the House of Lords . But his sensi- tive 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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... nature , romanticism , naturalness , and spontaneity once more assert themselves , and the Pope - Dryden school was doomed . Later In 1786 Lady Hesketh , a cousin , took Lady Austen's place in the poet's life . Through her in- fluence ...
... nature , romanticism , naturalness , and spontaneity once more assert themselves , and the Pope - Dryden school was doomed . Later In 1786 Lady Hesketh , a cousin , took Lady Austen's place in the poet's life . Through her in- fluence ...
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... nature were drawn from personal ob- servation ; all his readers could remember , or at any time see , those which precisely resembled the sub- jects of his description . He associated no unusual trains of thought , no feelings of ...
... nature were drawn from personal ob- servation ; all his readers could remember , or at any time see , those which precisely resembled the sub- jects of his description . He associated no unusual trains of thought , no feelings of ...
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar 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