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Page v
... Webster , on the evening preceding his death , for the reading of a portion of " Gray's Elegy in a Country Church- yard , " has awakened in many minds a new interest in that immortal production . From its first appearance , a century ...
... Webster , on the evening preceding his death , for the reading of a portion of " Gray's Elegy in a Country Church- yard , " has awakened in many minds a new interest in that immortal production . From its first appearance , a century ...
Page vii
... Webster , was lying upon his death - bed . Of course , this is not the occasion for estimating the character and qualities of Mr. Webster . Upon two points I think there can be little difference of opinion , the force of his ...
... Webster , was lying upon his death - bed . Of course , this is not the occasion for estimating the character and qualities of Mr. Webster . Upon two points I think there can be little difference of opinion , the force of his ...
Page viii
... Webster . The book was brought , and other stanzas read , which seemed to give him pleasure . Surely it is not a slight thing to have satisfied , so far as the world they were about to leave was concerned , the latest aspirations of ...
... Webster . The book was brought , and other stanzas read , which seemed to give him pleasure . Surely it is not a slight thing to have satisfied , so far as the world they were about to leave was concerned , the latest aspirations of ...
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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