The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayW. Pickering, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page xi
... manner of Gray ; what reason can be assigned , what apology can be offered ? The editor has also been favoured in the most obliging manner , with copies of the original letters from Gray to Mr. Taylor How , and he has found the same ...
... manner of Gray ; what reason can be assigned , what apology can be offered ? The editor has also been favoured in the most obliging manner , with copies of the original letters from Gray to Mr. Taylor How , and he has found the same ...
Page xii
... manner , and the valuable remarks which he made on the works of ancient and modern art which he saw at Rome . To Mr. Rogers , the ready and generous friend of every attempt to improve and illustrate the art which he has cultivated with ...
... manner , and the valuable remarks which he made on the works of ancient and modern art which he saw at Rome . To Mr. Rogers , the ready and generous friend of every attempt to improve and illustrate the art which he has cultivated with ...
Page xvi
... Attainder , also on the Manner of Creating Peers . See this last tract highly praised in Quarterly Review , No. lxxxiv . p . 303. See King's poem , The Toast , p . 117 . and his studious and pensive habits of mind , his ii LIFE OF GRAY .
... Attainder , also on the Manner of Creating Peers . See this last tract highly praised in Quarterly Review , No. lxxxiv . p . 303. See King's poem , The Toast , p . 117 . and his studious and pensive habits of mind , his ii LIFE OF GRAY .
Page xvi
... manners and customs of the inhabitants escape his attention . Like Addison , he compared with the descriptions of ancient authors the modern appear- ance of the countries through which he passed . There are , indeed , few gratifications ...
... manners and customs of the inhabitants escape his attention . Like Addison , he compared with the descriptions of ancient authors the modern appear- ance of the countries through which he passed . There are , indeed , few gratifications ...
Page xvi
... , " the opening scene of a tragedy called Agrip- pina , with the first speech of the second , written much in Racine's manner , and with many masterly strokes . " * The language resembles rather that of xiv LIFE OF GRAY .
... , " the opening scene of a tragedy called Agrip- pina , with the first speech of the second , written much in Racine's manner , and with many masterly strokes . " * The language resembles rather that of xiv LIFE OF GRAY .
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Page 35 - 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.
Page 109 - 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.
Page 34 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year ; Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 12 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 14 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 101 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.
Page 96 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 37 - Thro' 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 T.
Page 97 - 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.
Page 105 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.