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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... Literature , " gives an amusing account of their quarrels . There was an endless fight for the family plate . About 1634 my lady , " on a strong report of his death , posted down to Stoke Poges to take possession of his mansion ; but ...
... Literature , " gives an amusing account of their quarrels . There was an endless fight for the family plate . About 1634 my lady , " on a strong report of his death , posted down to Stoke Poges to take possession of his mansion ; but ...
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... to Eton at his mother's charges , and there began his famous friendship with Horace Walpole and Richard West . There , too , he gained that love for the literature of Greece and 7 Rome which makes its influence felt in almost every.
... to Eton at his mother's charges , and there began his famous friendship with Horace Walpole and Richard West . There , too , he gained that love for the literature of Greece and 7 Rome which makes its influence felt in almost every.
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... literature was enriched by a story not too long . The " Long Story , " redolent of quiet humour , was written in August , 1750 , but not pub- lished ( except privately ) during Gray's lifetime . The Elegy " was published by Dodsley in ...
... literature was enriched by a story not too long . The " Long Story , " redolent of quiet humour , was written in August , 1750 , but not pub- lished ( except privately ) during Gray's lifetime . The Elegy " was published by Dodsley in ...
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... literature , and the " Descent of Odin " and the " Fatal Sisters " show what time he must have bestowed upon his study of a new and difficult language . Few events ruffled the even tenor of his last years . Travels in the south ...
... literature , and the " Descent of Odin " and the " Fatal Sisters " show what time he must have bestowed upon his study of a new and difficult language . Few events ruffled the even tenor of his last years . Travels in the south ...
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... literature . Writes the " " Fatal Sisters , " the " Descent of Odin , " the " Triumphs of Owen . " 1764. Gray's health begins to fail . Writes the " Candi- date " and " Tophet . " Tour in the South of England . 1765. - Tour in the North ...
... literature . Writes the " " Fatal Sisters , " the " Descent of Odin , " the " Triumphs of Owen . " 1764. Gray's health begins to fail . Writes the " Candi- date " and " Tophet . " Tour in the South of England . 1765. - Tour in the North ...
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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.