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Side vii
... whole writings of Gray , I was buoyed up by a sanguine hope that I should be able to add very considerably to the bulk of those writings . Tradition has whispered for the last forty years of unprinted verses and unexamined letters by ...
... whole writings of Gray , I was buoyed up by a sanguine hope that I should be able to add very considerably to the bulk of those writings . Tradition has whispered for the last forty years of unprinted verses and unexamined letters by ...
Side ix
... whole writings of Gray . A bibliographical statement of what has been done by my predecessors may serve as a preface to what I have attempted to do . Mason , in 1775 , was the first to make a collection of the Letters and a few of the ...
... whole writings of Gray . A bibliographical statement of what has been done by my predecessors may serve as a preface to what I have attempted to do . Mason , in 1775 , was the first to make a collection of the Letters and a few of the ...
Side x
... whole of which it has hitherto been necessary to procure four distinct publications , of various forms and sizes . The present volumes have at least this advantage , that they present to the public for the first time a consecutive ...
... whole of which it has hitherto been necessary to procure four distinct publications , of various forms and sizes . The present volumes have at least this advantage , that they present to the public for the first time a consecutive ...
Side 113
... whole thing was abandoned . " - [ Gosse's Life of Gray , pp . 91 , 92. ] The poem is here printed from Gray's original text , among the Egerton MSS . , as far as 1. 56 , the rest being in Dr. Wharton's handwriting . — ED . ] ESSAY I ...
... whole thing was abandoned . " - [ Gosse's Life of Gray , pp . 91 , 92. ] The poem is here printed from Gray's original text , among the Egerton MSS . , as far as 1. 56 , the rest being in Dr. Wharton's handwriting . — ED . ] ESSAY I ...
Side 153
... Coan Web her Shape reveal , And half disclose those Limbs it should conceal ; Of those loose Curls , that Ivory front I write ; Of the dear Web whole Volumes I indite : Or if to Musick she the Lyre awake , That PROPERTIUS . 153 ELEG 1 وو.
... Coan Web her Shape reveal , And half disclose those Limbs it should conceal ; Of those loose Curls , that Ivory front I write ; Of the dear Web whole Volumes I indite : Or if to Musick she the Lyre awake , That PROPERTIUS . 153 ELEG 1 وو.
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Side 221 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 220 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Side 17 - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way...
Side 75 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Side 18 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace...
Side 76 - 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. Th...
Side 125 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Side 79 - 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.
Side 232 - He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Side 11 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purr'd applause.