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... March 1 of that year , and also to Thomas Wharton , to whom Gray humorously described it as the " most noble of my performances latterly . " It was first published in 1748 in Dodsley's " Collection of Poems by Several Hands ...
... March 1 of that year , and also to Thomas Wharton , to whom Gray humorously described it as the " most noble of my performances latterly . " It was first published in 1748 in Dodsley's " Collection of Poems by Several Hands ...
Page 213
... march and sounding energy of Dryden's rhymes . " ( Author's note . ) 106. With necks in thunder clothed , and long - resounding pace . Gray quotes the following in connection with the first part of this line : " Hast thou clothed his ...
... march and sounding energy of Dryden's rhymes . " ( Author's note . ) 106. With necks in thunder clothed , and long - resounding pace . Gray quotes the following in connection with the first part of this line : " Hast thou clothed his ...
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... march through a deep valley , are suddenly stopped by the appearance of a venerable figure seated on the sum- mit of an inaccessible rock , who , with a voice more than human , reproaches the king with all the desolation and misery ...
... march through a deep valley , are suddenly stopped by the appearance of a venerable figure seated on the sum- mit of an inaccessible rock , who , with a voice more than human , reproaches the king with all the desolation and misery ...
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... March 9 , 1786 . " This day died poor Puss , aged eleven years eleven months .. He died between twelve and one at noon , of mere old age , and apparently without pain . " ON FRIENDSHIP " On Friendship " was finished in 1782 , after ...
... March 9 , 1786 . " This day died poor Puss , aged eleven years eleven months .. He died between twelve and one at noon , of mere old age , and apparently without pain . " ON FRIENDSHIP " On Friendship " was finished in 1782 , after ...
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... the last poem that Cowper produced , was written in March , 1799. It is based on an incident found in Anson's Voyages , which the poet had read several months before . THE TASK THE WINTER EVENING ( Book IV ) T 256 [ PAGES 127-133 NOTES.
... the last poem that Cowper produced , was written in March , 1799. It is based on an incident found in Anson's Voyages , which the poet had read several months before . THE TASK THE WINTER EVENING ( Book IV ) T 256 [ PAGES 127-133 NOTES.
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote