 | Tony Bex - 1996 - 238 pages
...and setting. In particular. they will recall Gray's lines: 2 For thee who. mindful of th'unhonoured dead. Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;...inquire thy fate. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say . . . 'Approach and read tfor thou canst read) the lay. Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - 1997 - 522 pages
...184—88) by Thomas Gray: "Elegy in a Country Churchyard": "For thee, who mindful of the unhonored dead / Dost in these lines their artless tale relate,...led, / Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate" (Stanza 24, 11. 93-96). Elizabeth Epperly in The Fragrance of Sweet Grass (5) points out that this... | |
 | Richard Bradford - 1997 - 284 pages
...Country Churchyard', in which the poer similarly apptopriares the voice of a 'hoary-headed swain'. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty sreps the dews away To meat the sun upon the upland lawn. Gray's and Harrison's language and experience... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - 1999 - 388 pages
...villagers' graves to imagining how he himself will be memorialized: For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;...inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, . . . "mindful of th' unhonour'd" poet. This transaction between the poet and the swain, however, requires... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - 2005 - 276 pages
...relies, 90 Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. FOR thee who,...dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; 95 If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, 'THERE at the... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 pages
...some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of th'unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 pages
...subsequent revision, Gray combined these two stanzas into one: For Thee, who mindful of th'unhonour'd Dead Dost in these Lines their artless Tale relate,...lonely Contemplation led Some kindred Spirit shall enquire thy Fate, where "Thee" refers to the Stonecutter, not to Gray, "these Lines" to the "uncouth... | |
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For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say... 
