A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard: Being a Continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poems of GrayJ. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 - 148 من الصفحات |
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Anacreon ashes live beech begli occhi chiusi blank verse blemish blushes brought censure character Collins Country Church-yard curiosity death doubt Dr Johnson editor Elegy written English English poetry expression fancy fate flame flower Fredda una lingua ginality glimmering landscape grave Gray hamlet idea images JAMES BALLANTYNE labour language Late to find lines live their wonted Long to seek lose it-oh lyre Mason Meditation Milton mind mode moon Music Musical Expression musing mutual heart neral ness o'er pain Paradise Lost Parnell Parnell's path of glory pensive Petrarch piece poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise precincts priety purest ray quaternions quatrain racter Rondeau rustic seek a mutual seems sense sentiment sound stanza strictures suppose swallow's nest swells the note taste termina ther Thomson thought tion truth verse whiggish wonted fires word writer
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 4 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
الصفحة 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. "Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
الصفحة 6 - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
الصفحة 5 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
الصفحة 10 - Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,)— The bosom of his Father and his God.
الصفحة 2 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign.
الصفحة 6 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
الصفحة 5 - The applause of listening 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...