 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 著 - 1820全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Charles John Abbey - 1892 - 460 ページ
...for 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.... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 496 ページ
...agree with this interpretation, or do you find it far-fetched? Johnson finely said of lines 77-92 : ' Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.' 93-128. chance — perchance. Contemplation; compare II Penseroso, 51-54. wan may mean either ' pale... | |
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - 296 ページ
...its happy selection of images ; and in his " Life of Gray " he says, referring to the same poem, " Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." Review lately, I found mention made of one or two coincidences — or shall I call them marks of imitation... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1896 - 48 ページ
...four stanzas beginning ' Yet ev'n 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." The year 1753 saw the first appearance of a collection of Gray's poems in the shape of " The Six Poems,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 ページ
...The 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...them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain tof blame and useless to praise him. • LYTTELTON GEORGE LYTTELTON, the son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 ページ
..."The 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 himself that he has always felt them." Johnson (cf. Boswell's Johnson, 1775, xtat. 66). Johnson's comment well illustrates Pope's line in... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 ページ
...as four stanzas in Gray's Elegy which, he says, '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.' " Read completely rather than in selected passages, then, Johnson may be said to locate the highest... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 ページ
...The 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 himself that he has always felt them. Had Cray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. Thanks largely to James... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 ページ
...The four stanzas beginning "Yet e'en 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. (11,441) The poem Johnson describes seems to be uttered by the Zeitgeist, as though it were the consummate... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 ページ
...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" (p. 838). 39. Sickels, op. cit., p. 12. Of course there were better and worse expressions of this melancholy:... | |
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