Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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Page vii
... dead . Most people prefer their geniuses dead . They are more comfort- able to get along with that way . You know where they are , nights . While they are alive , they have the disturbing qualities of uncomfortableness , ruthlessness ...
... dead . Most people prefer their geniuses dead . They are more comfort- able to get along with that way . You know where they are , nights . While they are alive , they have the disturbing qualities of uncomfortableness , ruthlessness ...
Page xv
... dead with the matter of the past which they take pains to paint . The geniuses are different . They are alive . When Chaucer wrote of the Trojan men and women , he put them into mediaeval doublet - and - hose and gores , he put them ...
... dead with the matter of the past which they take pains to paint . The geniuses are different . They are alive . When Chaucer wrote of the Trojan men and women , he put them into mediaeval doublet - and - hose and gores , he put them ...
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... , who , mindful of th ' unhonour'd dead , Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance , by lonely contemplation led , Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate- Haply some hoary - headed swain may say , ". 47.
... , who , mindful of th ' unhonour'd dead , Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance , by lonely contemplation led , Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate- Haply some hoary - headed swain may say , ". 47.
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