The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayWilliam Pickering, 1851 - 223 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xii
... ancient and modern art which he saw at Rome . To Mr. Rogers , the ready and generous friend of every attempt to improve and illustrate the art which he has cultivated with such eminent success , the editor is under similar obligations ...
... ancient and modern art which he saw at Rome . To Mr. Rogers , the ready and generous friend of every attempt to improve and illustrate the art which he has cultivated with such eminent success , the editor is under similar obligations ...
الصفحة xvi
... ancient authors the modern appear- ance of the countries through which he passed . There are , indeed , few gratifications more exquisite than those which we experience in being able to identify the scenes , and realize the descriptions ...
... ancient authors the modern appear- ance of the countries through which he passed . There are , indeed , few gratifications more exquisite than those which we experience in being able to identify the scenes , and realize the descriptions ...
الصفحة xvi
... travellers did not recognise the ancient town of Hercula- neum by name , to be unfounded . H. Walpole calls it by that name in his letter . ་ Emula Trinacriis volvens incendia flammis . Mira fides ! viii LIFE OF GRAY .
... travellers did not recognise the ancient town of Hercula- neum by name , to be unfounded . H. Walpole calls it by that name in his letter . ་ Emula Trinacriis volvens incendia flammis . Mira fides ! viii LIFE OF GRAY .
الصفحة xvi
... ancient authors . He mentions that he was reading Thucydides , Theocritus , and Anacreon . He trans- lated some parts of Propertius with great elegance of language and versification , and selected for his Italian studies the poetry of ...
... ancient authors . He mentions that he was reading Thucydides , Theocritus , and Anacreon . He trans- lated some parts of Propertius with great elegance of language and versification , and selected for his Italian studies the poetry of ...
الصفحة xviii
... ancient poetry , and its use was properly long anterior to that of the verb , of which it now appears to be a parti- ciple . But that verb has since been fully adopted into our language . We now sugar our cups , as freely as our ...
... ancient poetry , and its use was properly long anterior to that of the verb , of which it now appears to be a parti- ciple . But that verb has since been fully adopted into our language . We now sugar our cups , as freely as our ...
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الصفحة 35 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
الصفحة 106 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
الصفحة 63 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
الصفحة 109 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "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, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
الصفحة 46 - Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway...
الصفحة cxiv - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
الصفحة 127 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 14 - 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 97 - 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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield!
الصفحة cxi - 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...