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... Nature and the quiet praise of rural life : ' its useful toil , its homely joys ' , gave promise then of something fresh in the dying climate of Neo - Classicism , pointing as it did to Wordsworth and to the whole Romantic Age . And ...
... Nature and the quiet praise of rural life : ' its useful toil , its homely joys ' , gave promise then of something fresh in the dying climate of Neo - Classicism , pointing as it did to Wordsworth and to the whole Romantic Age . And ...
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... Nature cries , Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires . For thee , 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 ...
... Nature cries , Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires . For thee , 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 ...
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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