 Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet...  The Port Folio - Halaman 711808Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | 1865 - 528 halaman
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images, which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Johnson could not admit a deviation out of the customary routine in poetry, but there was not, and... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 halaman
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images, which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Johnson could not admit a deviation out of the customary routine in poetry, but there was not, and... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 halaman
...finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard ' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." But I am able to... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 halaman
...finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." But I am able to... | |
 | 1867 - 556 halaman
...even bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, Yet, e'en these bones, arc to me original; 1 have never seen the notions in any other place: yet he that reads them here, (lersuades himself thai he has always felt them. Had Gray written 'uta thus, it had been vain to blame,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1868 - 274 halaman
...of the present day. For, like the Elegy of Gray, his writings abound 'in images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. . . . We feel strongly tempted to quote freely from 'The Battle of the Baltic' and 'O'Connor's Child,'... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 halaman
...of his "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," "which," he says, "abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." It has long been considered one of the finest poems in the English language. General Wolfe, before... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 halaman
...requires E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." Heartily concurring in this last sentence, I shall add neither... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 halaman
...stanzas in Gray's Elegy, beginning, 'Yet e'en these bones,' &c., of which Dr. Johnson says, ' they are to me original; I have never seen the notions...here persuades himself that he has always felt them.' The author then eudeavours to offer some explanation of this phenomenon, and carries out the germ of... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 934 halaman
...stanzas in Gray's Elegy, beginning, 'Yet e'en these bones,' &c., of which Dr. Johnson says, ' they are to me original ; I have never seen the notions...here persuades himself that he has always felt them.' The author then endeavours to offer some explanation of this phenomenon, and carries out the germ of... | |
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