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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence with ... - Page 26
by Thomas Gray - 1807
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail : The famish'd eagle sereams and passes by. Dear lost eompanions eountry's eries. No more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder eliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, 40 Ver. 34. Cloud-topt head.] " The cloud-capt towers." Shakspeare. — WAKEFIELD. Ver. 35. On dreary...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the...these sad eyes. Dear as the ruddy drops that warm iny heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries No more I weep. They do not sleep. . On yonder...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...ghastly pale : Far, far aloof the' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Ver. 35. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie] The shores of Caernarvonshire opposite to the isle of Anglesey....
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...figure which Mr. Gray used to say came still nearer to liis meaning than the picture of Raphael. 7. Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ep.'v. I. 12, 13. IMITATION. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops, That visit my sad heart. Shaks....
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail : The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear, as the...more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...ghastly pale : Far, far aioof th' affrighted ravens sail : The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by, Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the...more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...ghastly pale : Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail; The famished eagle (5) screams, and passes by. ll, and furnish ua with observations of wisdom and...liobin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny criesNo more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder chifs, a grisly hand, I see them sit ; they linger...
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The Universal Songster, Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete ...

Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...Mountains, ye mourn in vain ! Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head, Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the...more I weep, they do not sleep, On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land ! With me, in dreadful...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 394 pages
...elegantly, though copied from Dryden, " Far as the SOLAR WALK, or milky way." Gray has in his " Bard," " Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart." Gray himself points out the imitation in Shakspeare, of the latter image ; but it is curious to observe...
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