A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardJ. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 - 148 páginas |
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... introduction , and heard now and then a tone of dissent interrupting the notes of admiration , shall have " fretted their hour , " and gone away , the custom of praising it will be entitled to the de- nomination of a good custom , which ...
... introduction , and heard now and then a tone of dissent interrupting the notes of admiration , shall have " fretted their hour , " and gone away , the custom of praising it will be entitled to the de- nomination of a good custom , which ...
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... introducing them to the public at all , the journals of poetry would be less disgraced than they are with the balance of affectation against na- ture . The seriousness , which closes upon the soul , is not the offspring of volition , ON ...
... introducing them to the public at all , the journals of poetry would be less disgraced than they are with the balance of affectation against na- ture . The seriousness , which closes upon the soul , is not the offspring of volition , ON ...
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... introduction of the owl is proper . Parnell's ravens might have found another place to croak in than a church - yard , and another time than night . But the part the owl acts in the Elegy is impertinent , as well as foolish ; and ex ...
... introduction of the owl is proper . Parnell's ravens might have found another place to croak in than a church - yard , and another time than night . But the part the owl acts in the Elegy is impertinent , as well as foolish ; and ex ...
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... fastigia rerum . " A long and unintermitted enthusiasm " for music has , you know , led , volventi- " bus annis , to the discovery of many " varied modes of musical expression , " and introduced ON GRAY'S ELEGY . 95.
... fastigia rerum . " A long and unintermitted enthusiasm " for music has , you know , led , volventi- " bus annis , to the discovery of many " varied modes of musical expression , " and introduced ON GRAY'S ELEGY . 95.
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... his face . 66 66 You know the principle There is as yet no such English word . The word non- descript , lately introduced , upon a similar analogy , is not much less ridiculous . " of the Rondeau in Music . It is to 96 CRITICISM.
... his face . 66 66 You know the principle There is as yet no such English word . The word non- descript , lately introduced , upon a similar analogy , is not much less ridiculous . " of the Rondeau in Music . It is to 96 CRITICISM.
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Abbot admiration Antiquary appear author of Marmion author of Waverley beautiful beech Black Dwarf Bridal of Triermain Bride of Lammermoor Canto Canto VI castle character Church-yard circumstances composition criticism Dæmon dark death Douglas Elegy expression fancy favourite feeling Glossin Græme Gray Guy Mannering hand Harold the Dauntless Hatteraick Heart of Mid Heart of Mid-Lothian Henry hero honour Ibid images imagination instances Isles Ivanhoe Jeanie Kenilworth labour Lady Lake Landlord Last Minstrel Legend of Montrose Letters light Loch Katrine Lord Mid Lothian mind Monastery narrative natural night novelist novels o'er observation Old Mortality passage person personage Petrarch poems poet poetical poetry praise prose racter remarkable resemblance Risingham Rob Roy Roderick Rokeby romantic says scarcely scene seems sound spirit stanza story style supposed tale taste thou thought tion tower verse wild writers
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Página 54 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 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.
Página 9 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite 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 churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 1 - ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD / THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 104 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 2 - 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...
Página 7 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Página 5 - Th' applause of list'ning 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...