"With hasty footsteps brush. This suggests Cato of Utica, and his resistance to Caesar's tyranny. 1891]. - Mason MS.". lawn.] It may therefore be assumed that Walpole first saw the opening 12 ll. 1214-16, and Stokes's edition of the Elegy.) "Petrarch, Canzoniere 223 1-2: Quando 'l sol in mar l'aurato carro / E l'aer nostro e la mia mente imbruna (When the sun bathes his golden car in the ocean and casts a shadow over our air and my mind).". 1891]. "thorny tree." The form, the historic quatrain, is not new and may have been suggested by Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, but it lacks the latter's hard, metallic tone, and it is no exaggeration to say that Gray has handled the metre form with an infinite variety and charm unequalled by any other writer.". The wearisome frequency of the rhyme 'join' with such words as 'combine,' 'sign,' 'line,' in Dryden, Pope, &c. establishes the pronunciation of 'join' as 'jine' over a long period up to the middle of the 18th century; in Dryden we have 'spoil' rhyming with 'guile' and 'awhile'; 'boil' rhyming with 'pile,' and in Pope, Odyssey, b. 1891]. 's De Principiis Cogitandi [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Cp. breath?] The swallows 'twitter cheerful' in Thomson, Autumn 846.". 3, 1751, and notes in my edition of the letters; the punctuation is perhaps not quite exact; and in stanza 7, l. 3 [see textual note], the word 'they' is twice repeated. The stanza is here [in this edition] replaced in brackets, although it is conceivable that Gray may have rejected it, because, though the day is completed by it, it is not completed in sequence. Stokes also deals in another appendix (pp. Starr/J.R. of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth 's time. The character of the Elegy is gentleness and tenuity; but this stanza has been pronounced by Dryden, whose knowledge of English verse was not inconsiderable, to be the most magnificent of all the measures which our language affords. "Cf. who couldn’t give what you wanted. I persuaded him first to call it an Elegy, because the subject authorized him so to do; and the alternate measure, in which it was written, seemed peculiarly fit for that species of composition. "G.'s meaning is best explained by a passage in Blair's The Grave 219-23: 'Here too the petty tyrant, / Whose scant domains geographer ne'er noticed, / And, well for neighbouring grounds, of arm as short, / Who fixed his iron talons on the poor, / And gripped them like some lordly beast of prey ...'". - Original MS. [Mason [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. - Original MS. [Mason [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Of such, as wandering near her secret bower. "Cp. 106, 186.". "Gray probably took this expression from ''Paradise Lost,'' iii. Hendrickson, 1966. 65.2 lot] "Fate in Fraser MS. with [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 114.2 through] "has 'by' written over it [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "This line almost immediately became [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. almost the whole of the first version of the poem. - Georgics, i. In any event, to Gray's annoyance an imperfect copy was acquired by a journal which he disliked; consequently he wrote to Walpole (11 Feb. 1751, T & W no. "'silent' in Fraser MS., with 'noiseless' written over it.". of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat "Petrarch, Sonnet 115, line 12: ''Ma freddo foco, e paventosa speme.''". fires.] 7.7 droning] "drony F[oulis ed., 1768]." - February. Progress of Poetry, l. [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 123.5-9 all ... tear,] "Gray here translates himself; the [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Hendrickson, 1966. 16.2 rude] "Referring to their rustic simplicity. 37.1 - 38.8 Nor ... raise,] "Forgive, ye proud, th' involuntary [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. - Original MS. [Mason [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. He pretends to have been one of many readers into whose hands the poem accidentally fell, and to have taken the same unwarrantable liberty with it, which had in fact been taken by the Magazine of Magazines. "Why did Gray [in the Fraser MS.] select Cato? Gray has it in ''Agrippina,'' 83, already quoted.". / Pleasing his speech , by nature taught to flow, / Persuasive sense and strong, sincere and clear. Thomson's panegyric of England's 'sons of glory' in Summer 1488-91, 1493, includes: 'a steady More, / Who, with a generous though mistaken zeal, / Withstood a brutal tyrant's useful rage; / Like Cato firm ... / A dauntless soul erect, who smiled on death.' 19.5 or] "and Pembroke and Wharton MSS." Poole/L. "struggling with growing written above, E[ton College MS.].". Mr. Roberts, & published in 1762, & again in the same year by Rob. 1898]. Title/Paratext] "First printed by Dodsley in [...]" H.W. 1898]. - Mason MS.". Starr/J.R. lines 57-60; it may be quoted here as an illustration of his use of rude: - ''The rude Columbus of an infant world.''". "After this line in Eton [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "parting was originally dying according to Norton Nicholls (see T & W Appendix Z, p. 1297), but changed 'to parting to avoid the concetto'.". 1891]. fires.] He continued, however, to vacillate between discarding and retaining it, and it can hardly be regarded as cancelled: -. One wreaks ruin on a city and its hapless homes, that he may drink from a jewelled cup and sleep on Tyrian purple; another hoards up wealth and broods over buried gold; one is dazed and astounded by the Rostra; another, open-mouthed, is carried away by the plaudits of princes and of people, rolling again and again on the benches.
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