Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... learning , must be finally decided all claim to poetical honor . The Church - yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind , and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . Had Gray written often thus , it had ...
... learning , must be finally decided all claim to poetical honor . The Church - yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind , and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . Had Gray written often thus , it had ...
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... learning of our annals , are put aside for a time ; you feel the ground to be sacred to the common lot and daily life of humanity , and that these , together with that soft , peaceful landscape which sur- rounds you , have been adorned ...
... learning of our annals , are put aside for a time ; you feel the ground to be sacred to the common lot and daily life of humanity , and that these , together with that soft , peaceful landscape which sur- rounds you , have been adorned ...
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air a solemn alike the inevitable beetle wheels beneath Boston breath cell forever laid church of Stoke cock's shrill clarion compromise of 1834 Country Church-yard DANIEL WEBSTER death distant folds droning flight drowsy tinklings lull dust E'en echoing horn ecstasy the living England fades the glimmering fame glimmering landscape grave hamlet sleep Hampshire heart once pregnant heaves the turf laid Some heart lull the distant Massachusetts MOSES mouldering heap narrow cell forever o'er paths of glory peaceful poem poet Poetry of Gray Portsmouth PREFACE pregnant with celestial Q F B B rude forefathers rugged elms sacred Salisbury sequestered Sheffield slavery solemn stillness holds spot is laid stanzas STOKE POGIS CHURCH tariff compromise THOMAS GRAY tomb voice waked to ecstasy WAVERLEY MAGAZINE wealth e'er gave Webster remained Webster was called wheels his droning whig national convention Windsor Wolfe wrote his Elegy yew-tree's shade कर শু