 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
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 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. SELECTIONS FROM GRAY'S LETTERS MR. GRAY TO MR. WALPOLE. CAMBRIDGE,... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 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 bosom returns an echo.4 Nowadays, rather than being read like the epitaph it claims to become, the "Elegy" is read as... | |
 | David Summers - Philosophy - 1990 - 384 pages
...all claim to poetical honors," to argue that Gray's Elegy "abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."38 In all the forms it assumed in the Enlightenment, common sense provided a powerful justification... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...be 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... | |
 | Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Brewer, Susan Staves - Business & Economics - 1996 - 646 pages
...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...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...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. Original notions which every reader has felt, or is persuaded... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...ideas 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,... | |
 | Sandie Byrne - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 258 pages
...these sonorous phrases. No wonder Dr Johnson found that it 'abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo'.25 To some extent the echo was built in. To be fair to the poem, some of it is far more original... | |
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