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Page 43
... proceeds to bestow lavish praise upon the Luna Habitabilis , stating : Well then ! in the lunar poem I find more of a design , and something besides a series of hexameters . I need not add , it is writ in quite a different strain from ...
... proceeds to bestow lavish praise upon the Luna Habitabilis , stating : Well then ! in the lunar poem I find more of a design , and something besides a series of hexameters . I need not add , it is writ in quite a different strain from ...
Page 97
... proceeds rather self - consciously to draw attention to the fact that he is behaving towards West " in the manner of a doctor " : vide , quaeso , quam iaτoixos tecum agimus ἤδ ̓ ἐπιθήσω φάρμαχ ' ἅ κεν παύσῃσι μελαινάων ὀδυνάων ( 3 ) ...
... proceeds rather self - consciously to draw attention to the fact that he is behaving towards West " in the manner of a doctor " : vide , quaeso , quam iaτoixos tecum agimus ἤδ ̓ ἐπιθήσω φάρμαχ ' ἅ κεν παύσῃσι μελαινάων ὀδυνάων ( 3 ) ...
Page 104
... proceeds to associate this par- ticular region with the poet Horace , but also quotes two lines from one of Horace's Odes : I did not tell you that a little below the first fall , on the side of the rock , and hanging over that torrent ...
... proceeds to associate this par- ticular region with the poet Horace , but also quotes two lines from one of Horace's Odes : I did not tell you that a little below the first fall , on the side of the rock , and hanging over that torrent ...
Contents
Grays playexercise at Eton | 13 |
Grays Luna Habitabilis | 35 |
from epithalamium to epic | 51 |
Copyright | |
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addressee Aeneas Aeneid Alumn Anio atque Augusta Borgius caeli Cambridge classical Coll Commonplace Book context contrast conveys Corr curas described Dido dulce earth echo elegy English epic Epistles Essay Eton College fact Favonium Aristium Gaurus Georgics Glaucias Gratulatio Academiae Cantabrigiensis Gray seems Gray's Latin poetry Gray's poem Gray/West heavens Horace Horace's Horatian Hymeneal inhabitants Inner Temple Latin poem letter lines locus amoenus London Lucretian Lucretius Luna Habitabilis MASON metaphor mihi Milton moon Musae Etonenses Muse nature neo-Latin noted Odes Ovid Oxford Paradise Lost pastoral Pembroke College perhaps Pindar Planetae Play-Exercise at Eton poem's poet poetic points of contact Pope Pope's prince Principiis Cogitandi Pygmalion quae quam quid Rarissimi Opuscoli Rerum Natura reworking Richard West Simone Porzio speaker spring subtext theme Thomas Gray tibi Tibur umbra underworld Venus verse Virgil Virgilian Walpole West wind West's