Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... rest were to die in infancy from ' a suffocation produced by a fullness of ' a blood ' a disease of which Thomas too would most as- suredly have died had not his mother , with boldness and skill , ' removed the paroxysm which attacked ...
... rest were to die in infancy from ' a suffocation produced by a fullness of ' a blood ' a disease of which Thomas too would most as- suredly have died had not his mother , with boldness and skill , ' removed the paroxysm which attacked ...
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... due in sad array ' Slow thro ' the church - way path we saw him born . ' Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay , ' Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn . ' THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of. 20.
... due in sad array ' Slow thro ' the church - way path we saw him born . ' Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay , ' Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn . ' THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of. 20.
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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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