A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardJ. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 - 148 ページ |
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... scarcely rea- sonable to suppose . Gray , in the matu- rer part of his life , addicted himself to the study of natural history . It is not * Loving at First Sight . impossible that , in some of the writers he had ON GRAY'S ELÉGY . 65.
... scarcely rea- sonable to suppose . Gray , in the matu- rer part of his life , addicted himself to the study of natural history . It is not * Loving at First Sight . impossible that , in some of the writers he had ON GRAY'S ELÉGY . 65.
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... natural distinction of stanzas is restored , as it is in many others , particularly in Mr Ma- son's . The device was but a shallow one , and very properly relinquished . In verse of this alternate structure , the lines form themselves ...
... natural distinction of stanzas is restored , as it is in many others , particularly in Mr Ma- son's . The device was but a shallow one , and very properly relinquished . In verse of this alternate structure , the lines form themselves ...
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... natural , as well as moral , action . " Hi- ding the struggling pangs of conscious truth , " and " quenching the blushes of ingenuous shame , " are only different de- scriptions of the same action , viz . the checking the dictates of ...
... natural , as well as moral , action . " Hi- ding the struggling pangs of conscious truth , " and " quenching the blushes of ingenuous shame , " are only different de- scriptions of the same action , viz . the checking the dictates of ...
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... natural ; but how this kindred spirit should , in his lonely contemplations , stumble into the same Church - yard in which this Elegy was written , we search in vain for a probable account . One is tempted to suppose Gray to have some ...
... natural ; but how this kindred spirit should , in his lonely contemplations , stumble into the same Church - yard in which this Elegy was written , we search in vain for a probable account . One is tempted to suppose Gray to have some ...
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... natural . But what , of all things , is likely to ensure this performance a lasting and general interest is , that it abounds with images which find a mir- rour in every mind , and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo ...
... natural . But what , of all things , is likely to ensure this performance a lasting and general interest is , that it abounds with images which find a mir- rour in every mind , and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo ...
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54 ページ - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
3 ページ - 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.
9 ページ - 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.
4 ページ - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
8 ページ - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
1 ページ - ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD / THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
104 ページ - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
2 ページ - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...
7 ページ - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
5 ページ - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...