Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and WritingsJ. F. Dove, 1820 - 527 páginas |
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... ( things in me not imaginary , as you sur- mise , but too real , alas ! and I fear constitutional ) " have tuned my heart to elegies of woe ; " and this likewise is the reason why I am the most ir- regular thing alive at college ; for you ...
... ( things in me not imaginary , as you sur- mise , but too real , alas ! and I fear constitutional ) " have tuned my heart to elegies of woe ; " and this likewise is the reason why I am the most ir- regular thing alive at college ; for you ...
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... thing of an elegy , pray criticise it unmercifully , for I send it with that intent . Indeed , your late translation of Statius might have deterred me , but I know you are not more able to excel others , than you are apt to forgive the ...
... thing of an elegy , pray criticise it unmercifully , for I send it with that intent . Indeed , your late translation of Statius might have deterred me , but I know you are not more able to excel others , than you are apt to forgive the ...
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... thing , And fair - fac'd youth is ever on the wing ; * Quid fraudare juvat vitem crescentibus uvis ? Et modo nata mala vellere poma manu ? So the original . The paraphrase seems to me infinitely more beautiful . There is a peculiar ...
... thing , And fair - fac'd youth is ever on the wing ; * Quid fraudare juvat vitem crescentibus uvis ? Et modo nata mala vellere poma manu ? So the original . The paraphrase seems to me infinitely more beautiful . There is a peculiar ...
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... thing : I made them my classics in the country ; This Latin version is extremely elegiac , but , as it is only a version , I do not insert it . Mr. Gray did not begin to learn Italian till about a year and a half before he translated ...
... thing : I made them my classics in the country ; This Latin version is extremely elegiac , but , as it is only a version , I do not insert it . Mr. Gray did not begin to learn Italian till about a year and a half before he translated ...
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... thing the most to our tastes , and which they indeed do the justice to esteem the glory of their collection , was a vase of an entire onyx , measuring at least five inches over , three deep , and of great thickness . It is at least two ...
... thing the most to our tastes , and which they indeed do the justice to esteem the glory of their collection , was a vase of an entire onyx , measuring at least five inches over , three deep , and of great thickness . It is at least two ...
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Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Thomas Gray,William Mason Visualização integral - 1820 |
The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings ... Thomas Gray Visualização integral - 1820 |
Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Thomas Gray,William Mason Visualização integral - 1820 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admire Agrippina Anicetus antiquity appear beauty believe called Cambridge Caractacus castle church death Duke Dunciad Elegy Elfrida eyes Florence give Gothic Gothic architecture grace Grande Chartreuse GRAY TO DR Gray's hæc hand hear heart hexameters hill honour hope house of York imagine IMITATION insert Italy Keswick King lady lake LETTER lines live Lord Lord Bolingbroke manner MASON Massinissa mean miles mind mother mountains never night o'er Odin opinion passed perhaps Petrarch Pindar pleasure poem poet poetry Pope published quæ racter reader rise river road Rome round scene seems seen shew side Sir William Williams Skiddaw spirit stanzas sure Syphax Tacitus taste tell thing thought Tibullus tion town vale verse Walpole WEST WHARTON wish wood write written
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Página 17 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Página 461 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 466 - Aeolian 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, Through verdant vales and Ceres...
Página 492 - 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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; y> Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short...
Página 474 - 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.
Página 511 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Página 470 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Página 493 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village 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...
Página 476 - Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care; 125 126 BOOK THIRD. To triumph and to die are mine.
Página 468 - Man's feeble race what ills await ! Labour and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.