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 страници |
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... doubt . A few words more on the expression , in these three ftanzas . " Leaves the world to darkness and to me , " is quaint , and puts us in mind of great Anna , who Does fometimes counfel take , and fometimes tea † ; but quaintnefs is ...
... doubt . A few words more on the expression , in these three ftanzas . " Leaves the world to darkness and to me , " is quaint , and puts us in mind of great Anna , who Does fometimes counfel take , and fometimes tea † ; but quaintnefs is ...
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... doubt , of his own idea of a closing thought , which ought , as he expreffes himselft , " to have a flower ftuck in it , " or to be twirled off into an apophthegm . " The flower , how- ever , in time , ceased to please him : yet , with ...
... doubt , of his own idea of a closing thought , which ought , as he expreffes himselft , " to have a flower ftuck in it , " or to be twirled off into an apophthegm . " The flower , how- ever , in time , ceased to please him : yet , with ...
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... doubt to the Church : a charnel - house , " over - canopied with yew : graves , with their " turf ofier - bound : other graves , with smooth flat ftones infcribed : and others ftill , fplen- " didly done out with marble , & c . " Gray's ...
... doubt to the Church : a charnel - house , " over - canopied with yew : graves , with their " turf ofier - bound : other graves , with smooth flat ftones infcribed : and others ftill , fplen- " didly done out with marble , & c . " Gray's ...
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... doubt the turf will heave with it : but the " heaps , " if they are " mouldering heaps , " muft heave through the turf , not the turf in them . " Rude forefathers of the hamlet , " is equivocal . The forefathers of a hamlet fhould mean ...
... doubt the turf will heave with it : but the " heaps , " if they are " mouldering heaps , " muft heave through the turf , not the turf in them . " Rude forefathers of the hamlet , " is equivocal . The forefathers of a hamlet fhould mean ...
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... doubt allowed to Poetry to exalt the little , by comparing it to the great ; but , funt certi fines . To fwell out an infignificant little ani- mal , by an accumulation of glaring trappings ; and to compare his little fhrill pipe to a ...
... doubt allowed to Poetry to exalt the little , by comparing it to the great ; but , funt certi fines . To fwell out an infignificant little ani- mal , by an accumulation of glaring trappings ; and to compare his little fhrill pipe to a ...
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Страница 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.
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Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
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