...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...

...poetry in 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." ry^HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, -L The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...

...he fell, ' I had rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.' Doctor Johnson said of it, ' Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.' " discovered some iron-work intended to be serviceable as a fireescape, for he had a horror of fire....

...the most part, very scanty justice, had only commendation for the ' Elegy.' ' Had Gray,' said he, ' written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.' 2 Gray was not the founder of a school of poetry in the sense that Cowley, or Dryden and Pope had been....

...decided all claim to poetical 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 beginning "Yet e'en these bones" are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that...

...rejoice to concur with the common reader . . . The Churchyard 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" (p. 838). 39....

...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...

...encountering notions that seemed to him original: The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom...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...

...(in Lives of the English Poets, vol. 1) that the Elegy 'abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo', and John Guillory's suggestion that the poem 'seems to be uttered by the Zeitgeist, as though it were...

...are yoked by violence together. ('Cowley') The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. ('Gray') New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ... If Pope be not a poet,...