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الصفحة xi
... learned , from the expressions which Gray uses in his letter to Mr. Wharton on this subject . Some letters from Walpole to West , while the former was on his travels with Gray , are in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419-463 . There is ...
... learned , from the expressions which Gray uses in his letter to Mr. Wharton on this subject . Some letters from Walpole to West , while the former was on his travels with Gray , are in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419-463 . There is ...
الصفحة xv
... learned Mr. Twi- ning , in his notes on Aristotle's Poetics , ( p . 385 , 4to . ) says : " I have often wondered what it was that could attach Mr. Gray so strongly to a poet whose genius was so little analo- gous to his own . I must ...
... learned Mr. Twi- ning , in his notes on Aristotle's Poetics , ( p . 385 , 4to . ) says : " I have often wondered what it was that could attach Mr. Gray so strongly to a poet whose genius was so little analo- gous to his own . I must ...
الصفحة xxvii
... learned allusion , gain possession of the public mind , and are placed in their proper rank in literature . While the ' Bard ' and the ' Progress of Poetry ' were but little read on their first appearance , Gray received at once the ...
... learned allusion , gain possession of the public mind , and are placed in their proper rank in literature . While the ' Bard ' and the ' Progress of Poetry ' were but little read on their first appearance , Gray received at once the ...
الصفحة xxix
... p . 447 ; and Lett . to G. Montagu , p . 97. Mr. Cumberland , in the Memoirs of his Life , vol . i . p . 33 , thinks that he sees " a satire in copper- only son of the learned Dr. Bentley , and the LIFE OF GRAY . xxix.
... p . 447 ; and Lett . to G. Montagu , p . 97. Mr. Cumberland , in the Memoirs of his Life , vol . i . p . 33 , thinks that he sees " a satire in copper- only son of the learned Dr. Bentley , and the LIFE OF GRAY . xxix.
الصفحة xxx
Thomas Gray John Mitford. only son of the learned Dr. Bentley , and the friend of Walpole ; a person of various and ele- gant acquirements , as well as of very considera- ble talents . To him Gray addressed a Copy of Verses , highly ...
Thomas Gray John Mitford. only son of the learned Dr. Bentley , and the friend of Walpole ; a person of various and ele- gant acquirements , as well as of very considera- ble talents . To him Gray addressed a Copy of Verses , highly ...
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الصفحة 100 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
الصفحة 3 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
الصفحة 4 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
الصفحة 6 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ! where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise ! ODE IV.
الصفحة 99 - The next, with dirges due in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne ; Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
الصفحة 33 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
الصفحة 42 - But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail.
الصفحة 114 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
الصفحة 31 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
الصفحة xcv - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...