Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... 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 esteem , and wrote a ...
... 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 esteem , and wrote a ...
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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. THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth , And Melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul ...
Thomas Gray. THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth , And Melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul ...
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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