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... dying bed is very naturally associated with a similar inci- dent which preceded the death of Wolfe . That commander , reduced to straits by the dilatory movements of Amherst on Lake Champlain , and the failure of Johnson's coöperation ...
... dying bed is very naturally associated with a similar inci- dent which preceded the death of Wolfe . That commander , reduced to straits by the dilatory movements of Amherst on Lake Champlain , and the failure of Johnson's coöperation ...
Page vii
... dying hours . But , from the particulars which are there recorded , we find that even in the intervals of severe pain , even in the languor of decaying nature , even amidst the appropriate and Q ABG 7940 VIII PREFACE . exalted topics of ...
... dying hours . But , from the particulars which are there recorded , we find that even in the intervals of severe pain , even in the languor of decaying nature , even amidst the appropriate and Q ABG 7940 VIII PREFACE . exalted topics of ...
Page viii
... dying man yet unsatisfied . We are told that he was heard to repeat , somewhat indistinctly , the words , Poet , poetry , - Gray , Gray . ' His son repeated the first line of the Elegy , The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...
... dying man yet unsatisfied . We are told that he was heard to repeat , somewhat indistinctly , the words , Poet , poetry , - Gray , Gray . ' His son repeated the first line of the Elegy , The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...
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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