Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... 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 ...
... 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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... critic of the day put it , ' the affecting and pensive cast of its theme ' ) ; and that the general public would have liked it as well , if not better , in prose . Perhaps so . Yet obviously the poem owes its reputa- tion to something ...
... critic of the day put it , ' the affecting and pensive cast of its theme ' ) ; and that the general public would have liked it as well , if not better , in prose . Perhaps so . Yet obviously the poem owes its reputa- tion to something ...
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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