Gray's odes, with notes, and a scheme of grammatical analysis by W.S. Ross, Issue 126Thomas Laurie, 1870 - 64 pages |
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... STEPS IN ARITHMETIC . By the same Author , 6d . HENRY'S MENTAL ARITHMETIC . Cloth , 6d . . SPELLING AND DICTATION . SPELLING AND DICTATION CLASS BOOK ; with Ety- mological Exercises . By an INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS . Cloth , 1s . 6d ...
... STEPS IN ARITHMETIC . By the same Author , 6d . HENRY'S MENTAL ARITHMETIC . Cloth , 6d . . SPELLING AND DICTATION . SPELLING AND DICTATION CLASS BOOK ; with Ety- mological Exercises . By an INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS . Cloth , 1s . 6d ...
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... steps the dews away , To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.7 1 The present participle of the old intransitive verb to mad , -the modern expression to be mad . 2 Latin teneo , to hold . Tenour signifies continuous course , or career . 3 ...
... steps the dews away , To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.7 1 The present participle of the old intransitive verb to mad , -the modern expression to be mad . 2 Latin teneo , to hold . Tenour signifies continuous course , or career . 3 ...
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... steps attend : Warm Charity , the general friend , With Justice , to herself severe , And Pity , dropping soft the sadly - pleasing tear . Oh ! gently on thy suppliant's head , Dread goddess , lay thy chastening 2 hand ! Not in thy ...
... steps attend : Warm Charity , the general friend , With Justice , to herself severe , And Pity , dropping soft the sadly - pleasing tear . Oh ! gently on thy suppliant's head , Dread goddess , lay thy chastening 2 hand ! Not in thy ...
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... steps and slow , High potentates , and dames of royal birth , And mitred fathers in long order go : Great Edward , 4 with the lilies on his brow The Cam . 3 2 The moon , so called from Mount Cynthus , in Delos , the birthplace of ...
... steps and slow , High potentates , and dames of royal birth , And mitred fathers in long order go : Great Edward , 4 with the lilies on his brow The Cam . 3 2 The moon , so called from Mount Cynthus , in Delos , the birthplace of ...
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... steps Some hoary- May say . headed . Haply . the dews away , to meet " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn , brush- ing with hasty steps the dews away , to meet the sun upon the upland lawn . " Brushing with hasty steps We . Have ...
... steps Some hoary- May say . headed . Haply . the dews away , to meet " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn , brush- ing with hasty steps the dews away , to meet the sun upon the upland lawn . " Brushing with hasty steps We . Have ...
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38 COCKBURN STREET Adverbial Adjuncts Attributive Adjuncts Bard beard breath Caernarvonshire Cambridge churchyard Clare Cloth curfew dauntless death Dr Johnson Duke of Grafton Earl EDINBURGH EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHER Edward Eirin Elegy ELOCUTION ENGLISH Eton College eyes fate FAVOURITE foaming flood French frowns glittering goddess GRAMMAR Gray Gray's grisly hand hasty steps Hauberk haughty brow heart Henry Henry VI Henry's First History hoary JAMES CURRIE Kind of Sentence King Latin LAURIE linger lord loves lyre Margaret of Anjou melancholy mighty murdered Muse ne'er Nereids night Norse Object Odin old Conway's ordinate Pages on Application peep of dawn Pindar PLAYHOUR poet poetic Predicate Principal Principal sen Prophetess purple repose sable garb shade signify Sisters slain smile solemn song sorrow soul spirit spring Subject Taliessin tear tence thee thou Tower tyrant vale Valkyrmir verb voice Weave Welsh wild yonder youth τὸ
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Page 31 - Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day...
Page 44 - Aeolian 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 15 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. ' The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 32 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more;— where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 30 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 13 - ... hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. but knowledge to their eyes her ample page rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll : chill penury repressed their noble rage, and froze the genial current of the soul. full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Page 29 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 49 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 46 - Native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured Chiefs, and dusky Loves. Her track, where'er the Goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame.
Page 19 - 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 hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey.