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Page vii
... mind was overspread with mel- ancholy , in consequence of the loss of his amiable and accomplished friend , West . The scenes amid which it was composed were well adapted to soothe and cherish that contemplative sadness which , when the ...
... mind was overspread with mel- ancholy , in consequence of the loss of his amiable and accomplished friend , West . The scenes amid which it was composed were well adapted to soothe and cherish that contemplative sadness which , when the ...
Page x
... mind of his admirable mother , Gray had already owed the preservation of his life . All the rest of her children died in their infancy from suffocation , produced , we are told , by fulness of blood . Thomas was attacked with a paroxysm ...
... mind of his admirable mother , Gray had already owed the preservation of his life . All the rest of her children died in their infancy from suffocation , produced , we are told , by fulness of blood . Thomas was attacked with a paroxysm ...
Page xi
... mind ; and , " alas ! " he says in a letter to his friend West , " alas for one who has nothing to do but to amuse himself ! " His Ode to Spring was written early in June , during a visit to his mother at Stoke . He addressed it to that ...
... mind ; and , " alas ! " he says in a letter to his friend West , " alas for one who has nothing to do but to amuse himself ! " His Ode to Spring was written early in June , during a visit to his mother at Stoke . He addressed it to that ...
Page xiv
... mind never contracted " the rust of pedantry . " Dr. Beattie says , " he had none of the airs of either a scholar or a poet . " He was capable too of warm friendship , and such a man could not be an unamiable man . On the contrary , he ...
... mind never contracted " the rust of pedantry . " Dr. Beattie says , " he had none of the airs of either a scholar or a poet . " He was capable too of warm friendship , and such a man could not be an unamiable man . On the contrary , he ...
Page 96
... mind , Disdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth , Or Jealousy , with rankling tooth , That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan , and faded Care , Grim - visaged ...
... mind , Disdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth , Or Jealousy , with rankling tooth , That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan , and faded Care , Grim - visaged ...
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Page 97 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Page 93 - Ye distant spires, ye antique towers That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Page 104 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Page 109 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 110 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 110 - Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace!
Page 184 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 99 - DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitiet} and alone.
Page 118 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 96 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!