A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardJ. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 - 148 страници |
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... praise . XI . Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? XII . Perhaps , in this neglected spot , is ...
... praise . XI . Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? XII . Perhaps , in this neglected spot , is ...
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... praise has said so much . Even obstinacy is content to admit it to be possessed of the presumptive claim to commendation , which is derived from popularity . Literary history furnishes not many instances , where the anxieties of authors ...
... praise has said so much . Even obstinacy is content to admit it to be possessed of the presumptive claim to commendation , which is derived from popularity . Literary history furnishes not many instances , where the anxieties of authors ...
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... Praise in this instance preceded publication , as in some other instances he found it foliow far be- hind ; and Gray felt himself in a situa- 13 tion singular among authors ; not solicit- ing public favour 12 CRITICISM.
... Praise in this instance preceded publication , as in some other instances he found it foliow far be- hind ; and Gray felt himself in a situa- 13 tion singular among authors ; not solicit- ing public favour 12 CRITICISM.
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... praising it will be entitled to the de- nomination of a good custom , which , in criticism as well as law , holds of prescrip- tion ; being " That whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary . " Though the curiosity of the ...
... praising it will be entitled to the de- nomination of a good custom , which , in criticism as well as law , holds of prescrip- tion ; being " That whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary . " Though the curiosity of the ...
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... praise or to blame . It differs in nothing material from the ge- neral design of all Meditations on Death , from Boyle to Hervey inclusive . The subject has the advantage of being inte- resting , but the disadvantage of being common ...
... praise or to blame . It differs in nothing material from the ge- neral design of all Meditations on Death , from Boyle to Hervey inclusive . The subject has the advantage of being inte- resting , but the disadvantage of being common ...
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Страница 54 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...