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Page vi
... Wolfe alone , bending to the officers near him , broke the stillness , repeat- ing stanzas of Gray's Elegy . What stanzas we do not know . One was , " The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e ...
... Wolfe alone , bending to the officers near him , broke the stillness , repeat- ing stanzas of Gray's Elegy . What stanzas we do not know . One was , " The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e ...
Page vii
... Wolfe , he says : " I pass on to a more recent instance . About two months ago , the great American statesman , Mr. Webster , was lying upon his death - bed . Of course , this is not the occasion for estimating the character and ...
... Wolfe , he says : " I pass on to a more recent instance . About two months ago , the great American statesman , Mr. Webster , was lying upon his death - bed . Of course , this is not the occasion for estimating the character and ...
Page viii
... Wolfe , and such a statesman as Webster . " The very popularity and general acceptance of so brief a poem dis- courages any multiplied quotations from it . The opening of the de- scription at once puts the village life of England before ...
... Wolfe , and such a statesman as Webster . " The very popularity and general acceptance of so brief a poem dis- courages any multiplied quotations from it . The opening of the de- scription at once puts the village life of England before ...
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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