The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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Page lxxi
... thou view'st her state Throned on the heights of Skiddaw : call thy art To build her such a throne ; that art will feel How vain her best pretensions ! trace her march Amid the purple crags of Borrow - dale ; And try like those , to ...
... thou view'st her state Throned on the heights of Skiddaw : call thy art To build her such a throne ; that art will feel How vain her best pretensions ! trace her march Amid the purple crags of Borrow - dale ; And try like those , to ...
Page cxvi
... Thou hast redeem'd us , Will : - and future Times Shall not account unto the age's crimes Death of fierce Wit . Since the great Lord of it DONNE parted hence : no man has ever writ So near him , in his own way . ' Dryden first called ...
... Thou hast redeem'd us , Will : - and future Times Shall not account unto the age's crimes Death of fierce Wit . Since the great Lord of it DONNE parted hence : no man has ever writ So near him , in his own way . ' Dryden first called ...
Page 5
... thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone— We frolic while ' tis May . 40 ...
... thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone— We frolic while ' tis May . 40 ...
Page 11
... thou hast seen V. 5 . " and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow . " 10 15 20 Thoms . Sum . 1412. W. V. 10. " The vale of Thames fair - winding up . " Thoms . Sum . 1417. Fenton in his Ode to Lord Gower , which was ...
... thou hast seen V. 5 . " and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow . " 10 15 20 Thoms . Sum . 1412. W. V. 10. " The vale of Thames fair - winding up . " Thoms . Sum . 1417. Fenton in his Ode to Lord Gower , which was ...
Page 17
... Thou tamer of the human ' breast , sorrow's spy , it is not safe to know . " And Dodsley . Old Plays , xi . p . 119 : - " Ignorance is safe ; I then slept happily ; if knowledge mend me not , Thou hast committed a most cruel sin To wake ...
... Thou tamer of the human ' breast , sorrow's spy , it is not safe to know . " And Dodsley . Old Plays , xi . p . 119 : - " Ignorance is safe ; I then slept happily ; if knowledge mend me not , Thou hast committed a most cruel sin To wake ...
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