A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a continuation [by J. Young] of dr. J-n's criticism on the poems of GrayBallantyne Press, 1810 |
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第19页
... poetry was not of magnitude sufficient to give a classical stamp to any kind of versifi- cation . Mr Mason thought more favour- ably of his friend's authority ; and , by his advice , Gray was prevailed on to use the ON GRAY'S ELEGY . 19.
... poetry was not of magnitude sufficient to give a classical stamp to any kind of versifi- cation . Mr Mason thought more favour- ably of his friend's authority ; and , by his advice , Gray was prevailed on to use the ON GRAY'S ELEGY . 19.
第20页
... Mason , of whose sagacity in foreseeing events , the reader , from his success in this , may form no unfavourable idea . Yet of this mea- sure it may be said with truth , that it brings with it no momentous accession to the powers of ...
... Mason , of whose sagacity in foreseeing events , the reader , from his success in this , may form no unfavourable idea . Yet of this mea- sure it may be said with truth , that it brings with it no momentous accession to the powers of ...
第23页
... Mason . * Mason . nified in the apprehension of its author , who persuaded ON GRAY'S ELEGY . 23.
... Mason . * Mason . nified in the apprehension of its author , who persuaded ON GRAY'S ELEGY . 23.
第38页
... , the action is too violent for so quiet a personage : but the sound was necessary , to assist the bell - wedders to complete the lulling of the " folds . " • Mason . • Having cleared the way in the prece- ding stanzas 38 CRITICISM.
... , the action is too violent for so quiet a personage : but the sound was necessary , to assist the bell - wedders to complete the lulling of the " folds . " • Mason . • Having cleared the way in the prece- ding stanzas 38 CRITICISM.
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第38页 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
第3页 - 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.
第4页 - 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?
第6页 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die.
第8页 - 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.
第5页 - 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...
第6页 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; 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.
第2页 - 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, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
第9页 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
第5页 - 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...