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... verse in the English lan- guage the ' Elegy in a Country Churchyard ' by Thomas Gray . How account for such praise , for such fame , for such enduring popularity ? How explain the fact that even so hard - to - please a critic as Johnson ...
... verse in the English lan- guage the ' Elegy in a Country Churchyard ' by Thomas Gray . How account for such praise , for such fame , for such enduring popularity ? How explain the fact that even so hard - to - please a critic as Johnson ...
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... verse , the beauty and cor- rectness of the diction by which the very real pathos of the poem is conveyed . There is the tribute to the Com- mon Man which touches almost all of us and which , together with the evocation of Nature and ...
... verse , the beauty and cor- rectness of the diction by which the very real pathos of the poem is conveyed . There is the tribute to the Com- mon Man which touches almost all of us and which , together with the evocation of Nature and ...
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