Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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He remained there for two years , when an infection of the eyes compelled him to give up his studies for a time . In 1741 he reëntered school , this time at Westminster Academy , where Vincent Bourne was a master , and Warren Hastings ...
He remained there for two years , when an infection of the eyes compelled him to give up his studies for a time . In 1741 he reëntered school , this time at Westminster Academy , where Vincent Bourne was a master , and Warren Hastings ...
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I. 1 o 5 AWAKE , Æolian lyre , awake , And give to rapture all thy trembling strings . From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as ...
I. 1 o 5 AWAKE , Æolian lyre , awake , And give to rapture all thy trembling strings . From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as ...
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Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectres wan , and birds of boding cry , o He gives to range the dreary sky ; Till down the eastern cliffs afaro Hyperion'so march they spy , and glittering shafts of 50 war . II .
Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectres wan , and birds of boding cry , o He gives to range the dreary sky ; Till down the eastern cliffs afaro Hyperion'so march they spy , and glittering shafts of 50 war . II .
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Give ample room , and verge enough The characters of hell to trace . Mark the year , and mark the night , When Severn shall reëcho with affright The shrieks of death , through Berkley's roof that ring , 55 Shrieks of an agonizing kingo ...
Give ample room , and verge enough The characters of hell to trace . Mark the year , and mark the night , When Severn shall reëcho with affright The shrieks of death , through Berkley's roof that ring , 55 Shrieks of an agonizing kingo ...
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We the reins to slaughter give , Ours to kill , and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live . ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) 35 They , whom once the desert - beacho Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ample sway shall ...
We the reins to slaughter give , Ours to kill , and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live . ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) 35 They , whom once the desert - beacho Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ample sway shall ...
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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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