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
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 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." 4. Dr. Beattie said, " It is a poem that is universally understood and admired ;" and Byron wrote.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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 Gray often written thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. WILLIAM COLLINS.—His diction... | |
| 1884 - 396 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." Gray's Elegy, which was unquestionably his best production, crept into the world as it were, not only... | |
| Charles Edward Bolton - 1884 - 414 ページ
...night before he fell : "I had rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." Dr. Johnson said : "Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him." Grays Letters are among the best in the language. In his Elegy, and in other poems, Gray used to interweave... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 472 ページ
...incomprehensible. But to the Elegy even Johnson was obliged to do justice: "Had Gray often written thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." In another letter she wrote : — To return to our old subject, Gray's poems, — I wish you would... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 480 ページ
...incomprehensible. But to the Elegy even Johnson was obliged to do justice: "Had Gray often written thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." In another letter she wrote : — To return to our old subject, Gray's poems, — I wish you would... | |
| Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 ページ
...admiration for Gray, but he does full justice to his "Elegy," of which he says, " Had Gray often written thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him ;" and on one occasion, in discussing " The Bard," he acknowledged the extraordinary beauty of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 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,...had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. \A.\J\JA abb' v/and LYTT ELTON. cc LYTTELTON. LYTTELTON,1 the son of Sir Thomas V_J Lyttelton of Hagley... | |
| John Earle - 1890 - 552 ページ
...its author. The last sentence of all owes some of its weight and dignity to two Subjunctives : — ' Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.' But, whatever becomes of details, the general requisite is that there must be something of elevation.... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1891 - 470 ページ
...stanzas of which he says " the four stanzas beginning ' yet even those bones ' are to me original .... Had Gray written often thus it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." Tooke's suggestion that the Elegy would be made perfect by the exclusion of the second, the third,... | |
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