...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 bosom returns an echo." Johnson could not admit a deviation out of the customary routine in poetry, but there was not, and...

...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 bosom returns an echo." Johnson could not admit a deviation out of the customary routine in poetry, but there was not, and...

...finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard ' 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." But I am able to...

...finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard' 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." But I am able to...

...even bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, Yet, e'en these bones, arc to me original; 1 have never seen the notions in any other place: yet he that reads them here, (lersuades himself thai he has always felt them. Had Gray written 'uta thus, it had been vain to blame,...

...of the present day. For, like the Elegy of Gray, his writings abound 'in images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. . . . We feel strongly tempted to quote freely from 'The Battle of the Baltic' and 'O'Connor's Child,'...

...of his "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," "which," he says, "abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." It has long been considered one of the finest poems in the English language. General Wolfe, before...

...requires E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." Heartily concurring in this last sentence, I shall add neither...

...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 eudeavours to offer some explanation of this phenomenon, and carries out the germ of...

...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...