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... Country Churchyard ' by Thomas Gray . How account for such praise , for such fame , for such enduring popularity ? How explain the fact that even so hard - to - please a critic as Johnson ( who held Gray un- justifiably in the lowest of ...
... Country Churchyard ' by Thomas Gray . How account for such praise , for such fame , for such enduring popularity ? How explain the fact that even so hard - to - please a critic as Johnson ( who held Gray un- justifiably in the lowest of ...
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Thomas Gray. of Gray's of an order comparable to the " Elegy in a Churchyard " , that man would be bold indeed who chose to attack him ' ? Apparently Gray himself was much surprised at the rapidity of its sale , and claimed — a little ...
Thomas Gray. of Gray's of an order comparable to the " Elegy in a Churchyard " , that man would be bold indeed who chose to attack him ' ? Apparently Gray himself was much surprised at the rapidity of its sale , and claimed — a little ...
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Thomas Gray. ' 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 born . ' Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay , ' Grav'd on the stone beneath ...
Thomas Gray. ' 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 born . ' Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay , ' Grav'd on the stone beneath ...
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affected alike ALLENTOWN attack beauty beneath blood blush bold Books born bosom breast cast COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD critic dark Death e'er echo ELEGY Written Eton Ev'n eyes fame Fires Forbad Full gave Hands heap Heav'n homely joys interest Johnson laid Large lawn live Melancholy Memory mind Morn mother Nature never noble o'er path PENNSYLVANIA Perhaps poem popular praise rest rupture Save short smiling sober soul success Thomas Gray thro toil tomb tribute UNIVERSITY verse voice Walpole wood yonder