...men : The fields to all their wonted tribute bear: To warm their little love« the birds complain: J Fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain.' From the winter of the year 174-2, to the day of his death, Mr. Gray's principal residence was at Cambridge....

...And new-born pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all their wonted tribute bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless...cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. * Son of Lord Chancellor West, of Ireland. EPITAPH ON MES. CLARKE. [This Lady, the Wife of Dr. Clarke,...

...And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain: I fruitless...cannot hear, And weep the, more because I weep in vain. EPITAPH ON MRS. CLARKE. [This Lady, the Wife of Dr. Clarke, Physician at Epsom, died April 27, 1757...

...men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain. J fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And "Weep the more because 1 vieep in vain. It will easily be perceived that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value...

...fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitlcu mourn to him that cannot hear And -weep the more because I iveep in vain. It will easily be perceived that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value...

...And new-born pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless...cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. [49] Only Son of Lord Chancellor West, of Ireland. EPITAPH OJY MRS. CLARKE. [This Lady, the Wife of...

...therefore doe we plaine, And therefore weepe, because we weepe in vaine. Fitzgeffreys Life of Drake, 1596. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Gray's Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Wett. Take, mother Earth, thy virgin-daughter here. Brathwaite's...

...following passages: ' О therefore doe we plaine, And therefore weep, because we weep in vaine !' ' I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain.' " Gray. Gray, we will venture to affirm, was the greatest of aÙ plagiarists. He had few thoughts of...

...cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, ditd weep the more because I tceep in vain. It will easily be perceived that the only part of this...

...new-born pleasure brings to happier men; " The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; •* To warm their little loves the birds complain: " I fruitless...hear; " And weep the more because I weep in vain." Mr. Gray now applied his mind very sedulously to poetical composition: his Ode to Spring was written...