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When Cowper was six years old , his mother died , and he was soon afterward enrolled in a private school at Market Street , a village a few miles from his home . He remained there for two years , when an infection of the eyes compelled ...
When Cowper was six years old , his mother died , and he was soon afterward enrolled in a private school at Market Street , a village a few miles from his home . He remained there for two years , when an infection of the eyes compelled ...
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The change proved a beneficial one , for although the poet was again attacked by insanity in 1773 , he was in the midst of sympathetic friends whose kind treatment soon restored him . He and Newton became close associates , and together ...
The change proved a beneficial one , for although the poet was again attacked by insanity in 1773 , he was in the midst of sympathetic friends whose kind treatment soon restored him . He and Newton became close associates , and together ...
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He impresses us with the idea of a being whose fine spirits had been long enough in the mixed society of the world to be polished by its intercourse , and yet withdrawn so soon as to retain an unworldly degree of simplicity and purity .
He impresses us with the idea of a being whose fine spirits had been long enough in the mixed society of the world to be polished by its intercourse , and yet withdrawn so soon as to retain an unworldly degree of simplicity and purity .
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40 45 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed , The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit , invention ever new , And lively cheer , of vigor born ...
40 45 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed , The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit , invention ever new , And lively cheer , of vigor born ...
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35 They , whom once the desert - beacho Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ample sway shall stretch O'er the plenty of the plain . 40 Low the dauntless earlo is laid , Gored with many THE FATAL SISTERS 29.
35 They , whom once the desert - beacho Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ample sway shall stretch O'er the plenty of the plain . 40 Low the dauntless earlo is laid , Gored with many THE FATAL SISTERS 29.
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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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