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Full of this idea , the editor formed the resolution of restoring to his fellow -
readers what seemed to him to have been needlessly taken away ; and thus of
gratifying their palates with a dish that one meets not with every day , What his
riper ...
Full of this idea , the editor formed the resolution of restoring to his fellow -
readers what seemed to him to have been needlessly taken away ; and thus of
gratifying their palates with a dish that one meets not with every day , What his
riper ...
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Such was the idea of Mr Mason , of whose sagacity in foreseeing events , the
reader , from his success in this , may form no unfavourable idea . Yet of this mea
. sure it may be said with truth , that it brings with it no momentous accession to
the ...
Such was the idea of Mr Mason , of whose sagacity in foreseeing events , the
reader , from his success in this , may form no unfavourable idea . Yet of this mea
. sure it may be said with truth , that it brings with it no momentous accession to
the ...
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The idea of the owl ' s ' complaining is an artificial one ; and the view on which it
proceeds absurd . Gray should have seen , that it but ill befitted the bird of
wisdom to complain to the moon of an intrusion , which the moon could no more
help ...
The idea of the owl ' s ' complaining is an artificial one ; and the view on which it
proceeds absurd . Gray should have seen , that it but ill befitted the bird of
wisdom to complain to the moon of an intrusion , which the moon could no more
help ...
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and “ Crimes ” are ideas too particular for the author ' s view in this place , which
is meant to extend to the ... Quenching blushes , " is an idea scarcely correct ;
though , by the quenching of heat , blushes may be made to disappear . That the
...
and “ Crimes ” are ideas too particular for the author ' s view in this place , which
is meant to extend to the ... Quenching blushes , " is an idea scarcely correct ;
though , by the quenching of heat , blushes may be made to disappear . That the
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is an idea which Apprehension doubts if she has clearly made out : but if “ Father
” and “ God ” relate to the same Being , the idea is pious , and the Elegy ends
better than it begun . Meditation guides to Morality ; Morality inspires Religion ;
and ...
is an idea which Apprehension doubts if she has clearly made out : but if “ Father
” and “ God ” relate to the same Being , the idea is pious , and the Elegy ends
better than it begun . Meditation guides to Morality ; Morality inspires Religion ;
and ...
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Página 54 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 3 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 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.
Página 9 - 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.
Página 4 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 8 - 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 1 - ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD / THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 104 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 2 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...
Página 7 - 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...
Página 5 - 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...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Edição 53 de British culture series Edição 53 de British culture series, Group I Edição 6 de Eighteenth century sources for the study of English literature, r. 229 |
| Autor | John Young |
| Edição | 2, reimpressão |
| Editora | J. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 1 Ago 2007 |
| Número de páginas | 148 páginas |
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