Gray's English Poems: Original, and Translated from the Norse and WelshAt the University Press, 1898 - 290 pages |
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... Dodsley and others . Mitford has illustrated the poem with his customary care and diligence , and almost all the fire of quotation which has been brought to bear on it has been derived from his magazines . In 1768 Grav 1 See Gray and ...
... Dodsley and others . Mitford has illustrated the poem with his customary care and diligence , and almost all the fire of quotation which has been brought to bear on it has been derived from his magazines . In 1768 Grav 1 See Gray and ...
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... Dodsley's Miscellany [ 1748 ] , where it was first published . The author corrected it on account of the point of little and great . It certainly had too much the appearance of a Concetto , though it expressed his meaning better than ...
... Dodsley's Miscellany [ 1748 ] , where it was first published . The author corrected it on account of the point of little and great . It certainly had too much the appearance of a Concetto , though it expressed his meaning better than ...
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... Dodsley's Misc . vol . v . p . 161 . Gray . Matthew Green died in 1737. He printed and gave away a few copies of the Grotto in 1732. It was " written under the name of Peter Drake , a fisherman of Brentford . " The subject of the poem ...
... Dodsley's Misc . vol . v . p . 161 . Gray . Matthew Green died in 1737. He printed and gave away a few copies of the Grotto in 1732. It was " written under the name of Peter Drake , a fisherman of Brentford . " The subject of the poem ...
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... Dodsley in a folio pamphlet of eight pages and sold for sixpence . Dodsley reprinted it in his Miscellany of 1748. When Walpole was discussing with Gray which poems of his should be included in the Miscellany , Gray replied " As to my ...
... Dodsley in a folio pamphlet of eight pages and sold for sixpence . Dodsley reprinted it in his Miscellany of 1748. When Walpole was discussing with Gray which poems of his should be included in the Miscellany , Gray replied " As to my ...
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... Dodsley ( albeit anonymously ) , and in a tragedy certain , however short lived , to be exposed to a fire of criticism ; and if the play were successful , the authorship of the Ode would not long be a ' The rolling circle's speed ' is ...
... Dodsley ( albeit anonymously ) , and in a tragedy certain , however short lived , to be exposed to a fire of criticism ; and if the play were successful , the authorship of the Ode would not long be a ' The rolling circle's speed ' is ...
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Page 127 - Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 26 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 83 - With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast; And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet...
Page 1 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage ; Lo ! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age.
Page xiv - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way...
Page 129 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Page xiii - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine: And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 44 - Nor even thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail 'To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, 'From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!
Page xiv - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 118 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...