A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Being a Continuation of Dr. J----n's Criticism on the Poems of GrayG. Wilkie, 1783 - 90 páginas |
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... joint appropriation of the character which the Poet had applied exclusively to man : “ EVEN IN OUR ASHES LIVE THEIR WONTED FIRES . ” Lincoln's Inn , 15th Jan. 1783 . editions of fome late publications ( an irregu larity into [ xi ]
... joint appropriation of the character which the Poet had applied exclusively to man : “ EVEN IN OUR ASHES LIVE THEIR WONTED FIRES . ” Lincoln's Inn , 15th Jan. 1783 . editions of fome late publications ( an irregu larity into [ xi ]
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... poetic infpiration , and that fublimity is not the neceffary offspring of a ferious frame . The paucity of the ... poet is of his praise , from degrading his foliloquy into a paftoral ) the Meditator in the Country Church - yard is ...
... poetic infpiration , and that fublimity is not the neceffary offspring of a ferious frame . The paucity of the ... poet is of his praise , from degrading his foliloquy into a paftoral ) the Meditator in the Country Church - yard is ...
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... poets and fome critics have conceived . Dryden , who was eminent in both characters , is fo clearly of opinion that it is the moft magnificent of English measures , that one is apt to wonder how it should have firft been thought of as a ...
... poets and fome critics have conceived . Dryden , who was eminent in both characters , is fo clearly of opinion that it is the moft magnificent of English measures , that one is apt to wonder how it should have firft been thought of as a ...
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... poet to end his thought abruptly , or to eke it out with fupplemental and expletive matter , always weakening expreffion , and rarely concealing diftrefs . It is fomewhat furprising that blank verfe , improper in almost all other ...
... poet to end his thought abruptly , or to eke it out with fupplemental and expletive matter , always weakening expreffion , and rarely concealing diftrefs . It is fomewhat furprising that blank verfe , improper in almost all other ...
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... poet and his Mentor kept botching at it during the whole of their † Bowyer . It is to be hoped that the executors of this gentleman will take fome method of preventing from pe- rishing the much curious information which his profeffion ...
... poet and his Mentor kept botching at it during the whole of their † Bowyer . It is to be hoped that the executors of this gentleman will take fome method of preventing from pe- rishing the much curious information which his profeffion ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
alfo alſo authority beech blemiſh bluſhes cafe Caufe cauſe cenfure character cifm circumſtances clofing cloſe compofition Country Church Country Church-yard courſe Criticiſm curiofity defcription defign dreft Elegy written Engliſh expreffion faid fame fancy feek a mutual feems fenfe fentiment ferious fhall fheets fhould ficcis firft firſt flain fome fometimes fomewhat ftand ftate ftone fubject fuch fuffered fuppofe fure furniſhed furpriſe fwells Gray Gray's herſelf hiftory himſelf idea illuftration images inftance intereſt Italian poetry itſelf labour laſt lefs Mafon meaſure meditation moſt Mufic mufing muft muſt neceffary o'er obfcure Obfervations occafion paffage path of glory penfive perly Petrarch pleaſe Poet POETICAL RONDEAU poetry pofition Pope praife praiſe preſent procefs propriety pureft ray purpoſe quatrain racter reafon rifing Rondeau ruftic ſhall ſhe Stanza ſtate ſuppoſe taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thought tical tion ufed uſed verfe whofe whoſe yard
Passagens conhecidas
Página xvii - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Página xii - 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 xvi - 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 xvii - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite 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 church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página xii - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Página xii - Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 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 xvi - Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away ' To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech * That wreathes its old...
Página 21 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página xi - 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 xv - Mufe's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, Their fober wifhes never learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool fequefter'd vale of life They kept the noifelefs tenor of their way. Yet...