Stoke Poges: A Concise Account of the Church and Manor and Also of the Poet Thomas GrayH. Cox, 1896 - 32 էջ |
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... Elegy . " In August he had written his " Ode to Spring " -famous for " a solitary fly " -an ode that sounded the ... Elegy , " though it was not actually finished till the year 1750. Some jealous souls would try to prove that " the ...
... Elegy . " In August he had written his " Ode to Spring " -famous for " a solitary fly " -an ode that sounded the ... Elegy , " though it was not actually finished till the year 1750. Some jealous souls would try to prove that " the ...
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... Elegy " when yard " is not that of Stoke Poges . remember that Gray began the residing at Stoke Poges , that for many years he spent his vacations at Stoke Poges , that his aunt and his mother were both buried at Stoke Poges , Gray's ...
... Elegy " when yard " is not that of Stoke Poges . remember that Gray began the residing at Stoke Poges , that for many years he spent his vacations at Stoke Poges , that his aunt and his mother were both buried at Stoke Poges , Gray's ...
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... Elegy " was " wrote . " From this year ( the year 1742 ) begins the second period of Gray's life . Forced by circum- stances and the want of money to give up his original idea of reading for the Bar , he decided to live at Cam- bridge ...
... Elegy " was " wrote . " From this year ( the year 1742 ) begins the second period of Gray's life . Forced by circum- stances and the want of money to give up his original idea of reading for the Bar , he decided to live at Cam- bridge ...
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... Elegy " was published by Dodsley in 1751 , and rapidly went through fifteen editions , meeting with ready appreciation everywhere . Criticism of such a poem would here be out of place , but what was written of it by Dr. Johnson , who ...
... Elegy " was published by Dodsley in 1751 , and rapidly went through fifteen editions , meeting with ready appreciation everywhere . Criticism of such a poem would here be out of place , but what was written of it by Dr. Johnson , who ...
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... Elegy ” while being rowed to Quebec . " I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to - morrow . " 1760. - Lady Cobham dies . Gray corresponds with Mac- pherson ( Ossian ) ; meets Nicholls . 1762 ...
... Elegy ” while being rowed to Quebec . " I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to - morrow . " 1760. - Lady Cobham dies . Gray corresponds with Mac- pherson ( Ossian ) ; meets Nicholls . 1762 ...
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Abbey Alianore Ashby-de-la-Zouche Bard Baron buried at Stoke called Stoke Ditton Cambridge chancel daughter death died at Stoke Distant Prospect doubtless Duke Earl of Huntingdon edition Eton College Eton Ode famous finished the Elegy friends Godolphin Gray's last Gray's Monument Hastings chapel Hastings of Loughborough held the manor Henry Horace Walpole hospital Icelandic literature July king Lady Cobham Lady Cobham's niece Lady Jane Grey Lady Schaub land lies buried living London Long Story Lord Hastings married Sir Mary Antrobus Mary Overy Miss Speed north wall Ode to Spring old manor house parish Pembroke Hall Peterhouse Piscina Poet Laureate possession priest probably Prospect of Eton published by Dodsley remains Richard Robert Lord Hungerford Robert Pogis Rogers Sergeant Branthwait Sir Edward Coke Sir John Molines Stoke Church Stoke Poges THOMAS GRAY Thomas Penn tomb tour vicarage visits to Stoke Walpole's Cat West End Farm wife Egidia William Fitz Ansculf
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Էջ 8 - Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.
Էջ 8 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danced before him. •> His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crowned hat, and satin doublet, Moved the stout heart of England's queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
Էջ 24 - I shall continue good part of the summer) ; and having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it you.* You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it; a merit that most of my writings have wanted, and are like to want, but which this epistle I am determined shall not want, when it tells you that I am ever Yours.
Էջ 31 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Էջ 27 - Suddenly, in May, 1757, it was brought to a conclusion in consequence of some concerts given at Cambridge by John Parry, the famous blind harper, who lived until 1782, and whose son was one of the first ARA's. Gray's account of the extraordinary effect that this man's music made on him is expressed in that light vein with which he loved to conceal deep emotion : " There is no faith in man, no, not in a Welshman ; and yet Mr. Parry has been here...
Էջ 30 - Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers, that blow ; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima reclined...
Էջ 15 - He purposed to build a chapel of stone, with an altar therein, adjoining the church, and a tomb to be raised to his father and mother and a vault for his own body.
Էջ 7 - Stoke, where he died in 1572, and was buried in the Hastings chapel.