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... attack him ' ? Apparently Gray himself was much surprised at the rapidity of its sale , and claimed — a little bitterly — that the success of the poem was due to its subject alone ( or as a critic of the day put it , ' the affecting and ...
... attack him ' ? Apparently Gray himself was much surprised at the rapidity of its sale , and claimed — a little bitterly — that the success of the poem was due to its subject alone ( or as a critic of the day put it , ' the affecting and ...
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... attacked her son by opening with her own hand one of his veins ' . We know that he was educated at Eton and at Cam- bridge ; that he was studying for the Law ; and that , al- ready at Eton , he had clearly manifested the passionate ...
... attacked her son by opening with her own hand one of his veins ' . We know that he was educated at Eton and at Cam- bridge ; that he was studying for the Law ; and that , al- ready at Eton , he had clearly manifested the passionate ...
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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