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... method of making a fortune ; Could love , and could hate , so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit , he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire , 38 GRAY'S POEMS Caradoc Conan Sketch of his own Character.
... method of making a fortune ; Could love , and could hate , so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit , he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire , 38 GRAY'S POEMS Caradoc Conan Sketch of his own Character.
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Thomas Gray. That health and vigor to the soul impart , Spread the young thought , and warm the opening heart : So fond instruction on the growing powers Of nature idly lavishes her stores , If equal justice with unclouded face Smile not ...
Thomas Gray. That health and vigor to the soul impart , Spread the young thought , and warm the opening heart : So fond instruction on the growing powers Of nature idly lavishes her stores , If equal justice with unclouded face Smile not ...
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... thought ! what seasons can control , What fancied zone can circumscribe the soul , Who , conscious of the source from whence she springs , By reason's light , on resolution's wings , Spite of her frail companion , dauntless goes 75 O'er ...
... thought ! what seasons can control , What fancied zone can circumscribe the soul , Who , conscious of the source from whence she springs , By reason's light , on resolution's wings , Spite of her frail companion , dauntless goes 75 O'er ...
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... thought , ) Thou could become unkind at last , And scorn thy present lot , IX " No need of lightnings from on high , Or kites with cruel beak ; Denied the endearments of thine eye , This widowed heart would break . " X Thus sang the ...
... thought , ) Thou could become unkind at last , And scorn thy present lot , IX " No need of lightnings from on high , Or kites with cruel beak ; Denied the endearments of thine eye , This widowed heart would break . " X Thus sang the ...
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... thought as free as ever , What are England's rights , I ask , Me from my delights to sever , Me to torture , me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion , Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; 10 10 Skins may differ , but affection Dwells ...
... thought as free as ever , What are England's rights , I ask , Me from my delights to sever , Me to torture , me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion , Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; 10 10 Skins may differ , but affection Dwells ...
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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