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... perhaps , the first poet in the English language , but to have written a little more . " And , to come nearer to our own times , Sir James Mackintosh speaks of Gray thus : " Of all English poets he was the most finished artist . He ...
... perhaps , the first poet in the English language , but to have written a little more . " And , to come nearer to our own times , Sir James Mackintosh speaks of Gray thus : " Of all English poets he was the most finished artist . He ...
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... Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid 45 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ° ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the ...
... Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid 45 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ° ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the ...
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... perhaps by a smile . " THE DOVES ? I REASONING at every step he treads , Man yet mistakes his way , While meaner things , whom instinct leads , Are rarely known to stray . II One silent eve I wandered late , And heard the voice of love ...
... perhaps by a smile . " THE DOVES ? I REASONING at every step he treads , Man yet mistakes his way , While meaner things , whom instinct leads , Are rarely known to stray . II One silent eve I wandered late , And heard the voice of love ...
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... perhaps , ere summer flies , Combined with millions more , To form an Iris ° in the skies , Though black and foul before . Illustrious drop ! and happy then Beyond the happiest lot , Of all that ever passed my pen , So soon to be forgot ...
... perhaps , ere summer flies , Combined with millions more , To form an Iris ° in the skies , Though black and foul before . Illustrious drop ! and happy then Beyond the happiest lot , Of all that ever passed my pen , So soon to be forgot ...
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... perhaps it may ? ) A little nearer home . II Yon roaring boys , who rave and fight On t'other side the Atlantic , I always held them in the right , But most so when most frantic . III When lawless mobs insult the court , That man shall ...
... perhaps it may ? ) A little nearer home . II Yon roaring boys , who rave and fight On t'other side the Atlantic , I always held them in the right , But most so when most frantic . III When lawless mobs insult the court , That man shall ...
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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