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Page xii
... written and published in 1769 , marks the close of his poetical activities . Gray's life was now fast drawing to a close . several years he had been afflicted with the gout , For which was hereditary , and he sought to stay its progress ...
... written and published in 1769 , marks the close of his poetical activities . Gray's life was now fast drawing to a close . several years he had been afflicted with the gout , For which was hereditary , and he sought to stay its progress ...
Page xiv
... their contem- poraries have now raised Gray and Collins to the rank of our two greatest lyric poets . Beattie , at the end of the eighteenth century , writing to " " Sir William Forbes , says : " Of all the xiv INTRODUCTION.
... their contem- poraries have now raised Gray and Collins to the rank of our two greatest lyric poets . Beattie , at the end of the eighteenth century , writing to " " Sir William Forbes , says : " Of all the xiv INTRODUCTION.
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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