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Southern Poets : Srections . Southey's Life of Ne.son . Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped . Stevenson's . The Master of Ballantrae . Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey and An Inland Voyage .
Southern Poets : Srections . Southey's Life of Ne.son . Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped . Stevenson's . The Master of Ballantrae . Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey and An Inland Voyage .
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... On the Loss of the Royal George Song on Peace On the Shortness of Human Life Epitaph on Johnson The Judgment of the Poets Yardley Oak To the Nightingale To Mary The Castaway The Task The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk .
... On the Loss of the Royal George Song on Peace On the Shortness of Human Life Epitaph on Johnson The Judgment of the Poets Yardley Oak To the Nightingale To Mary The Castaway The Task The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk .
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The poet was very fond of her , and her death is thought to have influenced him to resume and complete the " Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard , " which he had begun seven years before . Its final stanzas were finished early in ...
The poet was very fond of her , and her death is thought to have influenced him to resume and complete the " Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard , " which he had begun seven years before . Its final stanzas were finished early in ...
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Meanwhile , his literary fame led to his being offered the position of Poet - Laureate in 1757 on the death of Cibber , which his dread of publicity forced him to decline . That same year his Pindaric Odes- “ The Progress of Poesy ” and ...
Meanwhile , his literary fame led to his being offered the position of Poet - Laureate in 1757 on the death of Cibber , which his dread of publicity forced him to decline . That same year his Pindaric Odes- “ The Progress of Poesy ” and ...
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... few who were jealous of his popularity have ever hesitated to admit that his happiest poetry must be classed among the most perfect in the world . Quarterly Review for December , 1853 . Gray , as a poet , may be said to have studied ...
... few who were jealous of his popularity have ever hesitated to admit that his happiest poetry must be classed among the most perfect in the world . Quarterly Review for December , 1853 . Gray , as a poet , may be said to have studied ...
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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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