| T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 페이지
...tomb erected there to Gray's memory. We may here give its inscription : — July 30, 1771. Aged 54. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns ; To Britain...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." The poet, however, does not repose in that favoured transept, having himself selected the secluded... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1861 - 386 페이지
...erected in memory of Gray, and upon it is this inscription : " No more the Grecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." • We looked everywhere to see Byron's grave—but looked in vain. Then we remembered how Macaulay... | |
| William Burns (of Glasgow.) - 1861 - 162 페이지
...even on the grave of the POET GRAY, we find these lines: — " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns, To BRITAIN let the nations homage pay! She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." In short, in Westminster Abbey, and upon those enduring memorials reared by friends or their country... | |
| Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 페이지
...more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a nation's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." •4 I The chapel of Henry VII. is the most gorgeous. It is filled with ancient tombs of rare workmanship.... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1862 - 358 페이지
...it is as much applicable to a monument to Milton, as to Gray: " No more the Grecian muse imrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay; She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." his works,* must still hold a very distinguished rank among the English poets, for the excellence of... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 페이지
...: " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." To quote Mackintosh once more, he says, " Of the two grand attributes of the Ode, Dryden had displayed... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 페이지
...: " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." To quote Mackintosh once more, he says, " Of the two grand attributes of the Ode, Dryden had displayed... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 페이지
...— " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pa; ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." To quote Mackintosh once more, he says, " Of the two grand attributes of the Ode, Un den had displayed... | |
| Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 페이지
...(There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God. T. Gray. ON GRAY.™ No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Mason. and " Caractacus,"... | |
| Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 페이지
...own wound distils its charm in vain. EPITAPH Off THOMAS GRAY, OX HIS MOXUMEXT IX WESTXIXSTER ABBEY. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The comparison of... | |
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