Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... death - bed . ' It abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind , and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' . . . Samuel Johnson . Soldier , American statesman , the great Doctor ; all making reference to the ...
... death - bed . ' It abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind , and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' . . . Samuel Johnson . Soldier , American statesman , the great Doctor ; all making reference to the ...
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... deaths of his mother and of Richard West , his closest friend and erstwhile schoolmate , whom he briefly com- memorated at the end of the Elegy ; that he was religious without being formally so ; that he was a fastidious , often ...
... deaths of his mother and of Richard West , his closest friend and erstwhile schoolmate , whom he briefly com- memorated at the end of the Elegy ; that he was religious without being formally so ; that he was a fastidious , often ...
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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