 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 páginas
...poetry iu the English language. " It abounds," says Dr. Johnson " with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom, returns an echo."] 1 THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly •>•'&• *he lea, 35*... | |
 | 1865 - 528 páginas
...were reluctantly, touched with a sense of returning justice, he concluded regarding the " Elegy," " Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him." The light of genius i» powerfully apparent in Gray through all his over-fastidiousness, to which,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." Heartily concurring in this last sentence, I shall add neither quotation nor comment ; save observing... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
