Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... Poets : So'ections . Southey's Life of Neason . 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 . Stevenson's Treasure Island ...
... Poets : So'ections . Southey's Life of Neason . 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 . Stevenson's Treasure Island ...
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... Poets 122 Yardley Oak 123 To the Nightingale 130 To Mary 131 The Castaway 133 The Task 136 • The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk 136 164 NOTES 197 INTRODUCTION A BRIEF LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY THOMAS GRAY , viii CONTENTS.
... Poets 122 Yardley Oak 123 To the Nightingale 130 To Mary 131 The Castaway 133 The Task 136 • The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk 136 164 NOTES 197 INTRODUCTION A BRIEF LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY THOMAS GRAY , viii CONTENTS.
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... 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 1750 ...
... 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 1750 ...
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... Poet - Laureate publicity forced him to decline . That same year his Pindaric Odes - " The Progress of Poesy " and " The Bard " were put before the public by Wal- pole , with whom he had become reconciled . Gray returned to Cambridge in ...
... Poet - Laureate publicity forced him to decline . That same year his Pindaric Odes - " The Progress of Poesy " and " The Bard " were put before the public by Wal- pole , with whom he had become reconciled . Gray returned to Cambridge in ...
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... poet , may be said to have studied words more carefully than the things they represent . He looked on a lay figure of nature . He had no throng- ing imaginations which required the vent of verse . He went abroad in search of ideas , and ...
... poet , may be said to have studied words more carefully than the things they represent . He looked on a lay figure of nature . He had no throng- ing imaginations which required the vent of verse . He went abroad in search of ideas , and ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar 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