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... - please a critic as Johnson ( who held Gray un- justifiably in the lowest of esteem , and wrote a damning book about him ) admitted at the last : ' Were everything of Gray's of an order comparable to the " Elegy S INTRODUCTION ...
... - please a critic as Johnson ( who held Gray un- justifiably in the lowest of esteem , and wrote a damning book about him ) admitted at the last : ' Were everything of Gray's of an order comparable to the " Elegy S INTRODUCTION ...
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... elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd , Left the warm precincts of the chearful day , Nor cast ...
... elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd , Left the warm precincts of the chearful day , Nor cast ...
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... to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode , ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , ) The bosom of his Father and his God . DATE DUE Gray , Thomas PR3502 .E6 Elegy written in 21 THE EPITAPH ...
... to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode , ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , ) The bosom of his Father and his God . DATE DUE Gray , Thomas PR3502 .E6 Elegy written in 21 THE EPITAPH ...
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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