 | James Beattie, James Hay Beattie - Scottish poetry - 1807 - 212 pages
...Verbanequit; miser atque magis fleo quod fleo frusttaSONNET (BY MR. GRAY) ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds ia vain their amorous descant join ;. Or chearful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...fall. SONNET* ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICH4RD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different object... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...Mathias, (a very able judge,) as the most perfect Sonnet, on the Petrarchan model, in our language. ' In vain to me, the smiling Mornings shine, And reddening...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 286 pages
...die? l-'or these I feel : — and feel that they are LOVE. 2. ex. GRAY. ON THE DEATH OP WEST. ELEGIAC. IN vain to me, the smiling Mornings shine And reddening...Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The Birds in vain their am'orons descant join ; Or cheerful Fields resume their sreen attire ; These ears, alas, for other... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. In rain to me the smiling mornings shine. And reddening Phoebus...join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object da these eyes require; My lonely anguish... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings sliine. And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...have opened his fourth book De Principiit Cogitandi, commenced in 1742. They are both subjoined: * In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...SONNET THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phrebus lifts his golden fire : The birds' in vain their amorous descant join; Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, 5 A different... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...passages from almost all the poetical writings even of Milton himself." He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...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... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1817 - 192 pages
...THE DEATH OF THE HON R. WEST BY T. GRAY. II n vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'hing Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain...join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine , A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely... | |
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In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening 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... 
