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Select Poems of Thomas Gray

Name: Select Poems of Thomas Gray
Author: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771; Carruthers, Robert, 1799-1878 [Contributor]; Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 [Editor]

作者：Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771; Carruthers, Robert, 1799-1878 [Contributor]; Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 [Editor]
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SELECT POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
STOKE-POGIS, BY WILLIAM HOWITT . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD . . . . . . . . 23
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ON THE SPRING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT . . . . . . . . . . 48
ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE . . . . . . . 50
THE PROGRESS OF POESY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
THE BARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
HYMN TO ADVERSITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
APPENDIX TO NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
THE LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY.
BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS.
STOKE-POGIS.
FROM HOWITT'S "HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE BRITISH POETS."[1]
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
THE EPITAPH.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
ON THE SPRING.
I. 1.
I. 2.
I. 3.
II. 1.
II. 2.
II. 3.
III. 1.
III. 2.
III. 3.
I. 1.
I. 2.
I. 3.
II. 1.
II. 2.
II. 3.
III. 1.
III. 2.
III. 3.
HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
NOTES.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
C. T., Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_.
D. V., Goldsmith's _Deserted Village_.
NOTES.
ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
In the 19th stanza, the MS. has "never _learn'd_ to stray."
The first line of the 31st stanza has "and his _heart_ sincere."
In the 1st stanza, "wind" for "winds."
5th stanza, "_and_ the ecchoing horn."
6th stanza, "_Nor_ climb his knees."
In the 21st we have "fame and _epitaph_ supply."
In the 28th stanza, the first line reads "_from_ the custom'd hill."
Warton wanted to have this line read
6. _Air_ is of course the object, not the subject of the verb.
7. _Save where the beetle_, etc. Cf. Collins, _Ode to Evening_:
19. _The cock's shrill clarion_. Cf. Philips, _Cyder_, i. 753:
21. Cf. Lucretius, iii. 894:
26. _The stubborn glebe_. Cf. Gay, _Fables_, ii. 15:
28. _Their sturdy stroke_. Cf. Spenser, _Shep. Kal._ Feb.:
40. _The pealing anthem_. Cf. _Il Penseroso_, 161:
47. Mitford quotes Ovid, _Ep._ v. 86:
48. _Living lyre_. Cf. Cowley:
50. Cf. Browne, _Religio Medici_: "Rich with the spoils of nature."
55. _Full many a flower_, etc. Cf. Pope, _Rape of the Lock_, iv. 158:
Hales quotes Waller's
58. _Little tyrant_. Cf. Thomson, _Winter_:
63. Mitford quotes Tickell:
66. _Their growing virtues_. That is, the growth of their virtues.
67. _To wade through slaughter_, etc. Cf. Pope, _Temp. of Fame_, 347:
68. Cf. Shakes. _Hen. V._ iii. 3:
70. _To quench the blushes_, etc. Cf. Shakes. _W. T._ iv. 3:
73. _Far from the madding crowd's_, etc. Rogers quotes Drummond:
75. Wakefield quotes Pope, _Epitaph on Fenton_:
95. _Chance_ is virtually an adverb here = perchance.
98. _The peep of dawn_. Mitford quotes _Comus_, 138:
99. Cf. Milton, _P. L._ v. 428:
100. _Upland lawn_. Cf. Milton, _Lycidas_, 25:
102. Luke quotes Spenser, _Ruines of Rome_, st. 28:
105. _Smiling as in scorn_. Cf. Shakes. _Pass. Pilgrim_, 14:
114. _Churchway path_. Cf. Shakes. _M. N. D._ v. 2:
117. _The lap of earth_. Cf. Spenser, _F. Q._ v. 7, 9:
ODE ON THE SPRING.
15. _Rushy brink_. Cf. _Comus_, 890: "By the rushy-fringed bank."
ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT.
2. Cf. Lady M. W. Montagu, _Town Eclogues_:
17. Cf. Virgil, _Geo._ iv. 274:
40. The 1st ed. has "Not all that strikes," etc.
ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
And so with many others. 'Take no thought of the morrow.'"
49. Wakefield quotes Milton, _P. L._ v. 3:
55. _Yet see_, etc. Mitford cites Broome, _Ode on Melancholy_:
66. Mitford quotes Spenser, _F. Q._:
82. _Grisly_. Not to be confounded with _grizzly_. See Wb.
99. Cf. Prior, _Ep. to Montague_, st. 9:
THE PROGRESS OF POESY.
7. Cf. Pope, _Hor. Epist._ ii. 2, 171:
10. _Rolling_. Spelled "rowling" in the 1st and other early editions.
11. The first MS. reading was, "With torrent rapture see it pour."
21. _The feather'd king_. Cf. Shakes. _Phoenix and Turtle_:
23. _Dark clouds_. The first reading of MS. was "black clouds."
See also Dryden, _Brit. Red._ 133: "and her own purple light."
43 foll. See on _Eton Coll._ 83. Cf. Horace, _Od._ i. 3, 29-33.
49. Hurd quotes Cowley:
52. Gray refers to Cowley, _Brutus_:
60. _Repeat_ [_their chiefs_, etc.]. Sing of them again and again.
61. _In loose numbers_, etc. Cf. Milton, _L'All._ 133:
62. _Their feather-cinctur'd chiefs_. Cf. _P. L._ ix. 1115:
67. _Isles_, etc. Cf. Byron:
70. Ovid, _Met._ viii. 162, describes the Mæander thus:
71 foll. Cf. Milton, _Hymn on Nativ._ 181:
75. _Hallowed fountain_. Cf. Virgil, _Ecl._ i. 53: "fontes sacros."
76. The MS. has "Murmur'd a celestial sound."
81. Hales quotes Collins, _Ode to Simplicity_:
84. _Nature's darling_. "Shakespeare" (Gray). Cf. Cleveland, _Poems_:
91. _These golden keys_. Cf. Young, _Resig._:
93. _Of horror_. A MS. variation is "Of terror."
95. _Nor second he_, etc. "Milton" (Gray).
108. _Bright-eyed_. The MS. has "full-plumed."
122. The MS. has "Yet never can he fear a vulgar fate."
THE BARD.
1. A good example of alliteration.
2. Cf. Shakes. _K. John_, iv. 2: "and vast confusion waits."
7. _Nightly_. Nocturnal, as often in poetry. Cf. _Il Pens._ 84, etc.
23. _Desert caves_. Cf. _Lycidas_, 39: "The woods and desert caves."
30. _That hush'd the stormy main_. Cf. Shakes. _M. N. D._ ii. 2:
41. _Dear as the ruddy drops_. Gray quotes Shakes. _J. C._ ii. 1:
44. _Grisly_. See on _Eton Coll._ 82. Cf. _Lycidas_, 52:
51. Cf. Dryden, _Sebastian_, i. 1:
60. "Triumphs of Edward the Third in France" (Gray).
73. Note the alliteration. Cf. Dryden, _Annus Mirab._ st. 151:
88. _Murther_. See on _murthorous_, p. 105.
98. See on 48 above.
124. _The eye of heaven_. Wakefield quotes Spenser, _F. Q._ 1. 3. 4,
Cf. Shakes. _Rich. II._ iii. 2: "the searching eye of heaven."
126. Gray quotes Spenser, _F. Q._ Proeme, 9:
131. "Milton" (Gray).
133. "The succession of poets after Milton's time" (Gray).
135. _Fond_. Foolish. See on _Prog. of Poesy_, 46.
143. Cf. Virgil, _Ecl._ viii. 59:
HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
3. _Torturing hour_. Cf. Milton, _P. L._ ii. 90:
18. _Folly's idle brood_. Cf. the opening lines of _Il Penseroso_:
31. _To herself severe_. Cf. Carew:
APPENDIX TO NOTES.
INDEX OF WORDS EXPLAINED.
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