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... English verse . This poem is said to have been for many years under correction and improvement ; and perhaps it would never have seen the light , but for the publication of a copy surreptitiously obtained . It passed , at once , to its ...
... English verse . This poem is said to have been for many years under correction and improvement ; and perhaps it would never have seen the light , but for the publication of a copy surreptitiously obtained . It passed , at once , to its ...
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... English scenery which composes the whole view . Immediately before and around you see the ivy - mantled tower , the rugged elms , the yew - tree's shade , the mouldering turf - heaps ; skirt- ing this precinct are the smooth turf , the ...
... English scenery which composes the whole view . Immediately before and around you see the ivy - mantled tower , the rugged elms , the yew - tree's shade , the mouldering turf - heaps ; skirt- ing this precinct are the smooth turf , the ...
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... English language . The vision rises to view in city and in country , in hall and in cottage , in the groves of the academy , and in the primeval forest where the smoke from the woodman's hut gives notice of advancing * X Y Z B BABY D ...
... English language . The vision rises to view in city and in country , in hall and in cottage , in the groves of the academy , and in the primeval forest where the smoke from the woodman's hut gives notice of advancing * X Y Z B BABY D ...
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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