A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Being a Continuation of Dr. J-n's Criticism on the Poems of GrayG. Wilkie, 1783 - 90 pages |
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... Elegy written in a Country Church- yard , in an improved state . Of the curfew , as heard by a man of meditation , we have the following circumftantiation in Milton's Penfe rofo ; Oft , Oft , on a plat of rifing ground ; I [ 14 ]
... Elegy written in a Country Church- yard , in an improved state . Of the curfew , as heard by a man of meditation , we have the following circumftantiation in Milton's Penfe rofo ; Oft , Oft , on a plat of rifing ground ; I [ 14 ]
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... rifing ground ; I hear the far - off curfew found ; Over fome wide - water'd fhore Swinging flow with fullen roar . Tothis characteristical figuring Gray has thought proper to fubftitute the conceit of Dante ; ac- cording to which the ...
... rifing ground ; I hear the far - off curfew found ; Over fome wide - water'd fhore Swinging flow with fullen roar . Tothis characteristical figuring Gray has thought proper to fubftitute the conceit of Dante ; ac- cording to which the ...
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... : on the right , rifing grounds , " retiring " in dimnefs from the fight : " on the left , the " Church - yard ; or ( as he , in imitation of the Called by them POLICY . " Hebrew " Hebrew fimplicity , calls it ) the Place of [ 20 ]
... : on the right , rifing grounds , " retiring " in dimnefs from the fight : " on the left , the " Church - yard ; or ( as he , in imitation of the Called by them POLICY . " Hebrew " Hebrew fimplicity , calls it ) the Place of [ 20 ]
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... as an help to early rifing , is not very plain : though this is one of the lines that it is thought creditable to apprehend and feel . & He found it in Pope . Thom- Thomson , indeed , has asked the following question : [ 23 ]
... as an help to early rifing , is not very plain : though this is one of the lines that it is thought creditable to apprehend and feel . & He found it in Pope . Thom- Thomson , indeed , has asked the following question : [ 23 ]
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... though juftice requires that of the worthy mafter I fhould folace the labours , by recording the unwearied diligence , and by bearing teftimony to thofe abilities that are are exerted in forming the rifing hopes of an- other [ 30 ]
... though juftice requires that of the worthy mafter I fhould folace the labours , by recording the unwearied diligence , and by bearing teftimony to thofe abilities that are are exerted in forming the rifing hopes of an- other [ 30 ]
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