 Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - 379 ページSamuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy 著 - 1820全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1865 - 530 ページ
...were reluctantly, touched with a sense of returning justice, he concluded regarding the " Elegy," " Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him." The light of genius i» powerfully apparent in Gray through all his over-fastidiousness, to which,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 ページ
...were reluctantly, touched with a sense of returning justice, he concluded regarding the " Elogy," " Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him." The light of genius is powerfully apparent in Gray through all his over-fastidiousness, to which, perhaps,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 ページ
...images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." But I am able to adduce testimony still higher, more affecting, and probably unparalleled in its kind,... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 ページ
...images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." But I am able to adduce testimony still higher, more affecting, and probably unparalleled in its kind,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 ページ
...these bones,' &c., of which Dr. Johnson says, ' they are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.' The author then eudeavours to offer some explanation of this phenomenon, and carries out the germ of... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 934 ページ
...these bones,' &c., of which Dr. Johnson says, ' they are to me original ; I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.' The author then endeavours to offer some explanation of this phenomenon, and carries out the germ of... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1878 - 214 ページ
...he fell, ' I had rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' Doctor Johnson said of it, ' Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.' " discovered some iron-work intended to be serviceable as a fireescape, for he had a horror of fire.... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1878 - 606 ページ
...the most part, very scanty justice, had only commendation for the ' Elegy.' ' Had Gray,' said he, ' written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.' 2 Gray was not the founder of a school of poetry in the sense that Cowley, or Dryden and Pope had been.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 ページ
...four stanzas beginning, " Yet even these bones," are to me original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades...had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. SELECTIONS FROM GRAY'S LETTERS MR. GRAY TO MR. WALPOLE. CAMBRIDGE, Feb. n, 1751. As you have brought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 ページ
...The four stanzas beginning Yet even these bones, are to me original : I have 'fiever seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here, persuades himself that he has always felt them, j Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. I L y April, 1883.... | |
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