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... stanzas of the " Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard " and the fragment " Agrippina , a Tragedy . " Gray's return to Cambridge was followed in 1743 by his receiving his LL.B. degree . " I ain got , " he wrote , " halfway to the top ...
... stanzas of the " Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard " and the fragment " Agrippina , a Tragedy . " Gray's return to Cambridge was followed in 1743 by his receiving his LL.B. degree . " I ain got , " he wrote , " halfway to the top ...
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... be of any real service , for death was near at hand . He died at East Dereham , Norfolk , on April 25 , 1800 , and was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel in that village . On his monument the following stanza is INTRODUCTION xix.
... be of any real service , for death was near at hand . He died at East Dereham , Norfolk , on April 25 , 1800 , and was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel in that village . On his monument the following stanza is INTRODUCTION xix.
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Thomas Gray. that village . On his monument the following stanza is inscribed : - Ye who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here , to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to ...
Thomas Gray. that village . On his monument the following stanza is inscribed : - Ye who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here , to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to ...
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... 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.o 125 130 135 140 ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE ° Now the 46 ...
... 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.o 125 130 135 140 ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE ° Now the 46 ...
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... stanza : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power , Our golden treasure , and our purple state ; They cannot ward th ' inevitable hour , Nor stay the fearful violence of fate . " Monody on Queen Caroline , 11. 77-80 . 35. Awaits ...
... stanza : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power , Our golden treasure , and our purple state ; They cannot ward th ' inevitable hour , Nor stay the fearful violence of fate . " Monody on Queen Caroline , 11. 77-80 . 35. Awaits ...
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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