The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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... Wakefield quotes Thomson . Spr . 506 : " Thro ' the soft air the busy nations fly . " And , 649 : " But restless hurry thro ' the busy air . " Compare also Pope . T. of Fame , 294 . V. 25. " Some to the sun their insect - wings unfold ...
... Wakefield quotes Thomson . Spr . 506 : " Thro ' the soft air the busy nations fly . " And , 649 : " But restless hurry thro ' the busy air . " Compare also Pope . T. of Fame , 294 . V. 25. " Some to the sun their insect - wings unfold ...
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... Wakefield seems to have discovered the original of this stanza in some lines in Thomson . Summer , 342 . V. 37. " The varied colours run , " Thoms . Spring . Luke . V. 47 . " From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solac'd the ...
... Wakefield seems to have discovered the original of this stanza in some lines in Thomson . Summer , 342 . V. 37. " The varied colours run , " Thoms . Spring . Luke . V. 47 . " From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solac'd the ...
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... Wakefield . See Todd's Ed . of Comus , p . 139. Gray , however , could have defended it by the usage of the ancient poets . See Ovid . Metam . ix . 98 : " Hunc tamen ablati domuit jactura decoris . " And Statii Silv . II . v . 30 ...
... Wakefield . See Todd's Ed . of Comus , p . 139. Gray , however , could have defended it by the usage of the ancient poets . See Ovid . Metam . ix . 98 : " Hunc tamen ablati domuit jactura decoris . " And Statii Silv . II . v . 30 ...
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... Wakefield's note . Add Sil . Ital . xvi . 432 , " lætoque pa- vore . " Luke . V. 44. " Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind . " Pope . Eloisa , ver . 209. Add Essay on Man , iv . 167 , " The soul's calm sunshine . " V. 47. " In either ...
... Wakefield's note . Add Sil . Ital . xvi . 432 , " lætoque pa- vore . " Luke . V. 44. " Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind . " Pope . Eloisa , ver . 209. Add Essay on Man , iv . 167 , " The soul's calm sunshine . " V. 47. " In either ...
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... Wakefield's note , he remarks an impropriety in the poet joining to a material image , the " torturing hour . " If there be an impropriety in this , it must rest with Milton , from whom Gray borrowed the verse : " when the scourge ...
... Wakefield's note , he remarks an impropriety in the poet joining to a material image , the " torturing hour . " If there be an impropriety in this , it must rest with Milton , from whom Gray borrowed the verse : " when the scourge ...
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