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... 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 damning book about him ) admitted at ...
... 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 damning book about him ) admitted at ...
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... 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 there is everywhere , in ...
... 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 there is everywhere , in ...
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... the long - drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise . Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust , Or Flatt'ry 12.
... the long - drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise . Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust , Or Flatt'ry 12.
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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