...Gray which every beholder does not equally think and feel ; " and a merit of the " Elegy," that " it abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." This no doubt is one of the chief praises of Gray, as of other poets, that he is the voice of emotions...

...to Gray which every beholder does not equally think and feel;" and a merit of the " Elegy," that" it abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." This no doubt is one of the chief praises of Gray, as of other poets, that he is the voice of emotions...

...of The Vanity of Human Wishes. Johnson, a severe and unsympathetic critic of Gray, confesses that ' The " Churchyard," abounds with images which find...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.' This is undoubtedly the chief cause of the wide-spread popularity of this poem ; a secondary cause...

...of it by Dr. Johnson, who had a very poor opinion of Gray's merits as a poet, is interesting : " It abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning ' Yet ev'n these bones ' are to me original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that...

...the part which Wordsworth Performed to perfection . His poetry, as Johnson said of Gray's Elegy, " abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. " " 1 never before," records George Eliot, "met with so many of my own feelings expressed just as I...

...refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claims to poetical honors. The 'Churchyard' abounds with images which find a...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." There are noble lines in Gray's more elaborate odes, but they do make as a whole that mechanical, artificial...

...damn it with faint praise," towards the end of his career admitted in his " Lives of the Poets " that" the churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." But the chief value of the work seems really to lie in this : it has dignified the rural scenes and...

...is doubtless the most frequently read and repeated of all his works, because, in Johnson's words, it 3 . But the loftiest type of poetry can never be very extensively popular. A simple ballad air will give...

...some remark or explanation interpolated by someone other than the author; as, "It ['Gray's Elegy '] abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." 31. The Hyphen. — A hyphen (-) is used: 1 . To join the parts of some compound and derivative words...

...is doubtless the most frequently read and repeated of all his works, because, in Johnson's words, it hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close...the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no But the loftiest type of poetry can never be very extensively popular. A simple ballad air will give...