The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Volumen1Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825 - 2 páginas |
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... flower . " Within the year subsequent to the event last mentioned , he had written the Ode on the Progress of Poesy , had begun the Bard , and , probably , the Fragment on the Pleasure of Vicissi- tude , not to mention another lyrical ...
... flower . " Within the year subsequent to the event last mentioned , he had written the Ode on the Progress of Poesy , had begun the Bard , and , probably , the Fragment on the Pleasure of Vicissi- tude , not to mention another lyrical ...
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... flowers on earth diffuse . What avails the Poet's art ? What avails his magic hand ? Can he arrest Death's pointed dart , Or charm to sleep his murderous band ? Well I know thee , gentle shade ! That tuneful voice , that eagle eye ...
... flowers on earth diffuse . What avails the Poet's art ? What avails his magic hand ? Can he arrest Death's pointed dart , Or charm to sleep his murderous band ? Well I know thee , gentle shade ! That tuneful voice , that eagle eye ...
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... flowers Which paint the Maiden's bowers ; And clear the waters of the gurgling fount : Swift they wind through chequered alleys ; Huddling down to th ' open valleys ; Where the quick ripple in the sunbeams plays , Turning to endless ...
... flowers Which paint the Maiden's bowers ; And clear the waters of the gurgling fount : Swift they wind through chequered alleys ; Huddling down to th ' open valleys ; Where the quick ripple in the sunbeams plays , Turning to endless ...
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... , that the epithet rosy - bosom'd is employed by these Poets , with unusual latitude , to signify , with bosoms full * On the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude . a Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the.
... , that the epithet rosy - bosom'd is employed by these Poets , with unusual latitude , to signify , with bosoms full * On the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude . a Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the.
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... flowers . } Phornut . " In that soft season , when descending showers Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers . " Pope's Temple of Fame , b . i . 1. - WAKEFIELD . Ver . 4. The purple year . ] " Vere rubenti . " Virgil . Geo ...
... flowers . } Phornut . " In that soft season , when descending showers Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers . " Pope's Temple of Fame , b . i . 1. - WAKEFIELD . Ver . 4. The purple year . ] " Vere rubenti . " Virgil . Geo ...
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ACERONIA admirable Agrippina ancient Anicetus atque Baiæ Bard beautiful bosom breath Cambridge composition Comus critic death dread Duke of Grafton Dunciad Elegy Eloisa to Abelard epithet Eton College expression fame fancy fate fear feel fire flowers following lines fragment genius grace Gray Gray's Gwynedd hæc hand heart honour kind king language Latin letter Lord Lycidas lyre lyric Mason means melancholy Milton mind Mitford Mitford quotes Muse numbers o'er observes Odin original pain passage passion Pembroke Hall Petrarch Pindar pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope's Progress of Poesy PROPHETESS quæ reader reign round rusal says seems shade Shakspeare smile solemn song soul spirit Spring stanza sublime tactus taste Telam thee THOMAS GRAY thou thought tion vale verse Virg Wakefield Walpole weep wing written youth
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Página 116 - Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre ; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Página 126 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Página 124 - 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.
Página 38 - 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.
Página 125 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite 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.
Página 115 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, ' If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 47 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página 43 - Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues unborrow'd of the sun ; Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great ! § SA.
Página 126 - TO fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove, But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Página 62 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.