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... Country Church- yard , " has awakened in many minds a new interest in that immortal production . From its first appearance , a century ago , to the present day , it has been deemed one of the best specimens of English verse . This poem ...
... Country Church- yard , " has awakened in many minds a new interest in that immortal production . From its first appearance , a century ago , to the present day , it has been deemed one of the best specimens of English verse . This poem ...
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... Country Church - yard . " ( " I have reserved for the last topic of observation the Elegy in a Country Church - yard . ' And let me here say that , however artificial the poetry of Gray may have been sometimes denominated , I believe I ...
... Country Church - yard . " ( " I have reserved for the last topic of observation the Elegy in a Country Church - yard . ' And let me here say that , however artificial the poetry of Gray may have been sometimes denominated , I believe I ...
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... church - yard , and throws its sombre shade over the humble places where The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . ' It is this spot , or Stoke Pogis , which the poet is supposed to have had in his mind when he wrote his Elegy in a Country ...
... church - yard , and throws its sombre shade over the humble places where The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . ' It is this spot , or Stoke Pogis , which the poet is supposed to have had in his mind when he wrote his Elegy in a Country ...
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air a solemn alike the inevitable ASTOR Await alike beetle wheels beneath boast of heraldry breath BROADWAY cell forever laid church of Stoke cock's shrill clarion Country Church-yard curfew tolls distant folds droning flight drowsy tinklings lull dust E'en echoing horn ecstasy the living fades the glimmering glimmering landscape glory lead grave hamlet sleep heart once pregnant heaves the turf hopes inspire ivy-mantled tower laid Some heart living lyre lull the distant mouldering heap narrow cell forever neglected spot o'er paths of glory poem poet Poetry of Gray pomp of power PREFACE pregnant with celestial Q BB Q F B B rod of empire rude forefathers rugged elms sacred sequestered Sheffield solemn stillness holds spot is laid stanzas STOKE POGIS CHURCH THOMAS GRAY TILDAN tomb waked to ecstasy wealth e'er gave Webster wheels his droning Windsor Wolfe wrote his Elegy yew-tree's shade yonder YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY শু