The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason, Volume 1

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G. Bell, 1909
 

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Pagina 274 - Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof; The thread is spun;) Half of thy heart we consecrate. (The web is wove; The work is done.) — Stay, oh stay!
Pagina 183 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Pagina 273 - She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Pagina 98 - Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable...
Pagina 273 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pagina 23 - SCHLEGEL'S (F.) Lectures on the Philosophy of Life and the Philosophy of Language. Translated by the Rev. AJW Morrison, MA 3s. 6d. Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern. Translated from the German. y&a. Lectures on the Philosophy of History. Translated by JB Robertson. 3'.
Pagina 6 - Miscellanies, ./Esthetic and Literary; to which is added, THE THEORY OF LIFE.
Pagina 98 - ... /As to matter of style, I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry ; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry...
Pagina 274 - Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail: — All hail, ye genuine kings! Britannia's issue, hail!
Pagina 44 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

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