The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayBenjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, & Robert Johnson, 1804 - 207 sider |
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Side xvii
... Wild- 66 ness of thought and irregularity of verse , had usu- " ally been esteemed the only way to resemble Pin- " dar . The characteristic excellencies of Pindar's 66 poetry , are , sublimity of conception , boldness of 66 metaphor ...
... Wild- 66 ness of thought and irregularity of verse , had usu- " ally been esteemed the only way to resemble Pin- " dar . The characteristic excellencies of Pindar's 66 poetry , are , sublimity of conception , boldness of 66 metaphor ...
Side xxi
... wild spirit which animated the bards of ancient days . The extensive compass , how- ever , of the subject , and the knowledge that it was also in the hands of Mr. Warton , induced him to re- linquish what he had thus successfully begun ...
... wild spirit which animated the bards of ancient days . The extensive compass , how- ever , of the subject , and the knowledge that it was also in the hands of Mr. Warton , induced him to re- linquish what he had thus successfully begun ...
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... Wild Wit , Invention ever - new , And lively Cheer , of Vigour born ; The thoughtless day , the easy night , The spirits pure , the slumbers light , That fly th ' approach of morn . Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims ...
... Wild Wit , Invention ever - new , And lively Cheer , of Vigour born ; The thoughtless day , the easy night , The spirits pure , the slumbers light , That fly th ' approach of morn . Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims ...
Side 41
... wild g Amid severest woe . Lo , in the Vale of Years beneath A grisly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their Queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every labouring sinew strains ...
... wild g Amid severest woe . Lo , in the Vale of Years beneath A grisly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their Queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every labouring sinew strains ...
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... Wild Laughter , Noise , and thoughtless Joy , And leave us leisure to be good . Light they disperse ; and with them go The summer friend , the flatt'ring foe ; By vain Prosperity receiv'd , To her they vow their truth , and are again ...
... Wild Laughter , Noise , and thoughtless Joy , And leave us leisure to be good . Light they disperse ; and with them go The summer friend , the flatt'ring foe ; By vain Prosperity receiv'd , To her they vow their truth , and are again ...
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ACERONIA Æolian Agrippina Anicetus Bard beautiful beneath breast breathe brow Cambria's Cambridge charms climes College Country Church-Yard death dread Duke of Grafton Earl Edward Eirin Elegy Eton College fame Fancy fate fear fire flowers gale genius glow golden grace Gray Gray's hand harmony hear heart Heav'n honour Johnson King Lord Lord Bute lyre Margaret of Anjou Mason Milton's mother Muse ne'er Nero numbers o'er ODIN Otho pain passion Pembroke Hall Peterhouse Petrarch Pindar PINDARIC ODE pleasure Poem Poet Poet's poetry Poppaa pride PROPHETESS Queen race reign round sable says scene Scythia shade sigh sing sister smile soft soft returns solemn song sorrow soul spirit stanza strains sublime sweet taste tear thee THOMAS GRAY thou thought thro trembling Twas University of Cambridge vale verse voice Walpole warblings weave weep wild wing youth
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Side 120 - 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. 'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Side 117 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
Side 34 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro...
Side 119 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd 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, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Side 113 - 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.
Side 39 - 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.
Side 44 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth And bade to form her infant mind.
Side 48 - Awake, ^Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong. Thro
Side 66 - The winding-sheet of Edward's race : Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro...
Side 67 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.