Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... 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 there is everywhere , in almost embarrassing profusion , fine and noble imagery : the ...
... 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 there is everywhere , in almost embarrassing profusion , fine and noble imagery : the ...
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... gave , The paths of glory lead but to the grave . Nor you , ye Proud , impute to These the fault , If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where thro ' the long - drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of ...
... gave , The paths of glory lead but to the grave . Nor you , ye Proud , impute to These the fault , If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where thro ' the long - drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of ...
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... gave to Mis'ry all he had , a tear , He gain'd from Heav'n ( ' twas all he wish'd ) a friend . No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode , ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , ) The ...
... gave to Mis'ry all he had , a tear , He gain'd from Heav'n ( ' twas all he wish'd ) a friend . No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode , ( There they alike in trembling hope repose , ) The ...
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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