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Page xvii
... speaking of this period in his life , he said , " I was bred to the law , a profession to which I was never much inclined and in which I engaged , rather because I was desirous to gratify a most in- dulgent father , than because I had ...
... speaking of this period in his life , he said , " I was bred to the law , a profession to which I was never much inclined and in which I engaged , rather because I was desirous to gratify a most in- dulgent father , than because I had ...
Page xxi
... speak , conceived with all the tender- ness of Raffaelle , and executed with all the finish and sharpness of Teniers . No man , in such few words , tells his tale , or describes his scene , so forcibly and so justly . . The popularity ...
... speak , conceived with all the tender- ness of Raffaelle , and executed with all the finish and sharpness of Teniers . No man , in such few words , tells his tale , or describes his scene , so forcibly and so justly . . The popularity ...
Page 40
... Speak not always winter past . 10 Cease , my doubts , my fears to move , Spare the honor of my love . A LONG STORY ° IN Britain's isle , no matter where , An ancient pile of building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed ...
... Speak not always winter past . 10 Cease , my doubts , my fears to move , Spare the honor of my love . A LONG STORY ° IN Britain's isle , no matter where , An ancient pile of building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed ...
Page 46
... Speak to a commoner and a poet ! " [ Here five hundred stanzas are lost . ] And so God save our noble king , And guard us from long - winded lubbers , That to eternity would sing , And keep my lady from her rubbers . ° 125 130 135 140 ...
... Speak to a commoner and a poet ! " [ Here five hundred stanzas are lost . ] And so God save our noble king , And guard us from long - winded lubbers , That to eternity would sing , And keep my lady from her rubbers . ° 125 130 135 140 ...
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... speak the idiom of their soil . An iron - race the mountain cliffs maintain , Foes to the gentler genius of the plain : For where unwearied sinews must be found With sidelong plough to quell the flinty ground , To turn the torrent's ...
... speak the idiom of their soil . An iron - race the mountain cliffs maintain , Foes to the gentler genius of the plain : For where unwearied sinews must be found With sidelong plough to quell the flinty ground , To turn the torrent's ...
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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