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Page xi
... 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 , and that same year " A Long Story " was ...
... 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 , and that same year " A Long Story " was ...
Page xxii
... thought , no feelings of peculiar refinement , with the grand and beautiful of nature , while at the same time the strain of his sentiment was pure , manly , and exalted . By addressing himself to the heart universal , and using ...
... thought , no feelings of peculiar refinement , with the grand and beautiful of nature , while at the same time the strain of his sentiment was pure , manly , and exalted . By addressing himself to the heart universal , and using ...
Page 12
... Thought would destroy their paradise . No more ; - - where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly to be wise . HYMN TO ADVERSITY ° -Ζήνα - Τὸν φρονεῖν Βροτοὺς δδώ- σαντα , τῷ πάθει μαθὼν θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν . 90 100 ĘSCH . AGAM . ver . 181 ...
... Thought would destroy their paradise . No more ; - - where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly to be wise . HYMN TO ADVERSITY ° -Ζήνα - Τὸν φρονεῖν Βροτοὺς δδώ- σαντα , τῷ πάθει μαθὼν θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν . 90 100 ĘSCH . AGAM . ver . 181 ...
Page 13
... thought profound , And Melancholy , silent maid , With leaden eye that loves the ground , Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity , the general friend , 25 30 With Justice , to herself severe , And Pity , HYMN TO ADVERSITY 13.
... thought profound , And Melancholy , silent maid , With leaden eye that loves the ground , Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity , the general friend , 25 30 With Justice , to herself severe , And Pity , HYMN TO ADVERSITY 13.
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... Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . ° 110 But ah ! ' tis heard no more ° Oh ! lyre divine , what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the pride , nor ample pinion , That the THE PROGRESS OF POESY 21.
... Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . ° 110 But ah ! ' tis heard no more ° Oh ! lyre divine , what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? Though he inherit Nor the pride , nor ample pinion , That the THE PROGRESS OF POESY 21.
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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