 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...  The Port Folio - Page 711808Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...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...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. • Lord Orford used to assert, that Gray " never wrote any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 pages
...honours. The " Church-yard" abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with senti* ments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas,...himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written oflen thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. * Lord Orford used to assert, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 410 pages
...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...original: I have never seen the notions in any other ^lace'; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that ne~Kas always felt them. Had Gray written... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The ' Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. : ODES. I. ON THE SPRING. Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. i Lord Orford used to assert, that Gray " never wrote any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror ill every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. i Lord Orford used to assert, that Gray " never wrote any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...a soul, that like an tanpU shield Can take in all ; and verge enough for more." Uryden's Sebastian. mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. LYTTELTON. GEORGE LYTTELTON, the son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...to poetical honours. The Church- , yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, aud with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo....felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, aud useless to praise him. i Lord Orford used to assert, that Gray " never wrote any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 pages
...vOL. VI.—2 Cr claim to poetical honours. The "Church-Yard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...that reads them here persuades himself that he has often felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...glimmering landscape on the sight, 5 And all -the air a solemn stillness holds, which find a mirrmir in every mind ; and with sentiments, to which every bosom returns an echo," — WAKEFIELD. . " Had Gray written nothing but his Elegy, high as he stands, I am not sure that he... | |
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