...sentiments to which every hosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning "Yet even these hones" are to me original: I have never seen the notions...that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often tbus it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. 1Vol. III, p. 441) The poem Johnson describes...

...original: The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas...had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. Original notions which every reader has felt, or is persuaded he has felt; this is more difficult than...

...honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas...thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.20 These attitudes seem to have contributed to the promotion of public poetry as a specially valued...

...incomprehensible. But to the Elegy even Johnson was obliged to do justice: "Had Gray often written thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." In another letter she wrote : — To return to our old subject, Gray's poems,—I wish you would bring...

...praise: The Church yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas...had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. 50 He similarly opined to Boswell that the only two good stanzas in Gray's poetry were the second two...

...praise: The Church yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas...thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.50 He similarly opined to Boswell that the only two good stanzas in Gray's poetry were the second...

...a sigh'. When Johnson, often impatient with Gray's other poetry, said of the Elegy that if Gray had 'written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him', he evidently had in view the poem's nice balance of public precept and private feeling: 'The Church-Yard...

...with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns and echo. The four stanzas beginning "Yet even these bones"...notions in any other place; yet he that reads them her persuades himself that he has always felt them.HI Nowjuxtapose Johnson's oft-quoted remarks on...