The crucial fact about the poem, of which by no means all discussions of the Elegy take account, is that we possess two distinct versions of it: the version which originally ended with the four rejected stanzas in the Eton MS, and the familiar, revised and expanded version. "Cp. But in Richard II. You can read the poems to your daughter or send her a greeting card, both ways she will enjoy them. 19, 20, published 1764, by which time it was probably a familiar quotation: - ''So that they neither give a tawdry glare, / 'Nor waste their sweetness on the desert air.' hour.] "Many parallels have been cited for this passage. "Science is here simply a general term for Knowledge. was probably obliged to make the [...] alteration by his decision to drop the stanza after l. 100, which refers to the wood. John Donne . 284. Sad Break Up Poems For Him or Her That Make You Cry. 27.4 they] "they they [a misprint] Q[uarto]1." presented here in unmodernized form, has been taken from the Starr/Hendrickson edition. Let's face it, long distance relationships are difficult. Milton, Il Penseroso 161, 163: 'There let the pealing Organ blow / ... / In Service high, and Anthems cleer.' 'Rich with the spoils of nature', Browne, Religio Medici I xiii; and 'For, rich with Spoils of many a conquer'd Land', Dryden, Palamon and Arcite ii 452.". 66.2 growing] "struggling with growing written above, [...]" H.W. Hark! "And ... glow Pembroke and Wharton MSS. The poet refused, and wrote next day to Horace Walpole, directing him to bring it out in pamphlet form. *** The New Year’s night comes in our house Makes … On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Non nostrum inter vos &c. The hyphen is a mere convention, and it is admitted that it is found in the Pembroke MS. here. 73.7 strife,] "If there were no comma [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. This discussion has tried to make clear that all of the evidence is ambiguous and nothing more confident than an assertion of likelihood can be achieved. "Written above a deleted word, perhaps In E[ton College MS.].". A.L. "In the Pembroke MS. of [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. flame.] H.W. "Dryden was fond of the phrase: cp. "Mitford compares Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici [Pt. He made a more significant statement in another letter to Wharton on 11 Sept. 1746: after mentioning that he had been reading Aristotle, he added, 'this & a few autumnal Verses are my Entertainments dureing the Fall of the Leaf' (Corresp i 241). 210. Hendrickson, 1966. Even if it may appear that most of the poem was written in 1746 and later, it is still possible that G. began drafting it in 1742. The four 'rejected' stanzas do provide a perfectly coherent conclusion to the poem. "The Epitaph, which is not [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. and in the editions published by him; but almost all editors follow Mason and Mitford and read await. New Year poems for family and friends. 1891]. Website by . The Editor is Walpole, as will be seen by Gray's letter infra. 9-12 n, and Gay, Shepherd's Week iii 118: 'And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.'". H.W. From his letter to Walpole it is clear that there was a considerable interval between his beginning and completing it. poor.] "''Maddening'' would be the more correct formation; but Gray's use of madding has given it currency, and ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' has been adopted as the title of a novel [by Thomas Hardy (1874)], just as ''Annals of the Poor,'' 32, supplies the title of Leigh Richmond's well known work. - Mason MS." E. Gosse, 1884. This problem was tackled ingeniously but unconvincingly by H. W. Garrod in 'A note on the composition of Gray's Elegy', in Essays Presented to David Nichol Smith (Oxford, 1945) pp. 11, 96, 105. This aspect of the Elegy's popularity and influence can be illustrated by John Langhorne's remarks, in his review of An Elegy, Written among the Tombs in Westminster Abbey (Monthly Review xxvi (1762) 356-8), on the number of G.'s imitators: 'An Undertaker was never followed by a more numerous or a more ridiculous tribe of mourners, than he has been; nor is the procession yet over, for, behold, here is another Gentleman in black, with the same funereal face, and mournful ditty; with the same cypress in his hand, and affecting sentence in his mouth, viz. Hendrickson, 1966. 1891]. 58.1-7 The ... withstood;] "G.'s meaning is best explained [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 79.7 decked,] "Deckt. Just like the long poems written by famous authors, they describe the heroic deeds of people who gave us freedom, country… Now her words have won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and others. 'Insert.' Anstey, Esq., and the Revd. 112.1-10 'Nor ... he;] "After this line Eton has [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. I’d like to take her in my arms, and show her the world and all its charms. H.W. 93.1 - 96.7 For ... fate,] "This stanza is altered from [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. blood.] 30.2 homely] "rustic E[ton College MS.]." "Abundant, as Latin largus. "Il Penseroso 91-2: 'The immortal [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "Many sources for this famous [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "This stanza is capable of two constructions, according as we take prey in agreement with who or with being. poor.] "Cp. 116.1 'Graved] "Wrote with Graved carved written [...]" H.W. 's instances of greatness were originally classical in the Eton MS. Commonplace Book has rod in the margin.". "In Fraser MS., the punctuation showing that it was the poet's first intention to make the line part of the apostrophe to himself. may also have remembered Par. A simple identification with the innocent but uneducated villagers was mere self-deception. When You're Texting A Girl , You Want To Keep It Simple And Straight To The Point. In Gray's translation of Propertius, he has - ''Happy the youth, and not unknown to Fame.''". The moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself. Alexander Huber, 2000. 4 he printed a complimentary poem to the author of the Elegy by 'Musaphil'. thorn.'] At just 22 years old, Amanda Gorman will be the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 174-5: 'And here ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain, / Here all its frailties, all its flames resign'; and 316: 'For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.'". If you are looking for a great touching Veterans Day speech, some of these short but beautiful verses will inspire you. 1751 to Walpole (T & W no. 119.3-4 frowned not] "Wakefield compares Horace IV 3. It is not its brilliancy and originality, but its balanced perfection that is its chief quality. 2. 'We drove afield,' Milton, Lycidas, l. 27; this is probably Gray's warrant for the word. 46.4-7 pregnant ... fire;] "Cowper has the expression in [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Fraser MS.". 84.7 die.] A similar, but more restrained and detailed, argument for connecting the Elegy with the trial of the Scottish lords in Aug. 1746 was offered by F. H. Ellis, 'Gray's Elegy: The biographical problem in literary criticism', PMLA, lxvi (1951) 971-1008. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. There is no reason to believe that he had not remembered correctly that G. had shown him twelve or more of the opening lines at that period. 's spelling of 'aisle' ('isle') is also found in Pope: e.g. If G. did not choose them himself, he apparently did not object to them, for Dodsley retained them for the twelve quarto edns of the Elegy published up to 1763. Cp. Similarly the etymologist Junius thought 'bower' was so called from being made of boughs; a fancy which has no doubt affected the sense of the word.". He may have felt obliged to do so publicly as a result of Norton Nicholls's discovery of the debt: see Corresp iii 1297. Joseph Warton's Ode to Evening, which contains a number of passages strikingly similar to the Elegy, although - so far as I know - the similarity has not been noticed by editors. 1891]. "Mallet, Excursion i 272-5, in [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "Henry VIII III ii 434-4: 'When I am forgotten, as I shall be, / And sleep in dull cold marble.'". 23.1-8 No ... return,] "'And stammering Babes are taught [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. That he could not have intended the second and fourth of these stanzas to remain is clear, because they are remodelled in ll. "First printed by Dodsley in 1751 (Q1). Mason did not meet G. until about 1747, so that his dating of the poem was not based on first-hand knowledge. But there are other parallels with G.'s image and thought: e.g. 83-84.". 1891]. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Chalfont, in which is the cottage where Milton finished ''Paradise Lost,'' is only a few miles from the ''Churchyard'' of the ''Elegy. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Starr/J.R. 105.6 smiling] "'Smiling as in scorn' is [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. Ian Jack (see [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 71.4 shrine] "Shrines Wharton MS." A.L. 47.4 rod] "Reins. "These lines are very reminiscent of a stanza in Thomas Warton's second Pastoral Eclogue. Whether or not the Glastonbury thorn suggested the idea to G[ray]., it is not obvious that he would want to refer to its miraculous powers as part of the meaning of the poem.". "For the image see Richard II I iii 138; King John II i 42; Macbeth III iv 137; Pope, Temple of Fame 346-7: 'For thee whole Nations fill'd with Flames and Blood, / And swam to Empire thro' the purple Flood'; Blair, The Grave 209-10: 'the mighty troublers of the earth, / Who swam to sovereign rule through seas of blood'; and 631-2: 'Whilst deep-mouth'd slaughter ... / Wades deep in blood new-spilt'.". (Com. R. Lonsdale, 1969. 1891]. 79.3 rhymes] "Rhime. 73.7 strife,] " 'If there were no [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 'Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn. Starr/J.R. 119.1-8 Fair ... birth,] "Science is here simply a [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. . the missing word is, I suppose, either now invisible or was never written. "Await   edd 9-12, Dodsley's Collection in 1775, and in 1775.". [...]" E. Gosse, 1884. 87.4 precincts] "This word, and the phrase [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. 1891]. Spenser, Ruines of Time 130: 'For the Shriche-owle to build her balefull bowre'; Pope, Dunciad iv 11: 'the Owl forsook his bow'r'; Winter 143-4: 'Assiduous, in his bower, the wailing owl / Plies his sad song'; and T. Warton above, ll. 8-9: 'For pale and wanne he was, (alas the while,) / May seeme he lovd, or els some care he tooke'; and 47: 'Thou weake, I wanne; thou leane, I quite forlorne'. R. Lonsdale, 1969. He writes to Walpole from Cambridge on Ash Wednesday, 1751: ''You have indeed conducted with great decency my little misfortune; you have taken a paternal care of it, and expressed much more kindness than could have been expressed [? The breezy call of incense-breathing morn. 3. 'Along the heath and near his favourite tree; 'Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. 194. Alexander Huber, 2000. There is also a chapter on the Elegy in John Scott's Critical Essays (1785) pp. also Thomas Warton in preceding note. Title/Paratext] "Title: Stanza's wrote in a [...]" H.W. 39.7 fretted] "Decorated with carved work in [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "Akenside, Pleasures of Imagination ii 729-30: 'the pomp / Of public pow'r, the majesty of rule'.". l. 89: 26.4-6 the ... glebe] "Cp. 25.7 sickle] "sickles   Wharton." 1891]. Virgil, Georgics i 94: [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. - Original MS. [Mason [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. 25.7 sickle] "Sickles   Egerton MS." D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster Row. "'he lived unknown / To fame or fortune.' "Richard West, Monody on Queen [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 1891]. Title/Paratext] "When first published as a [...]" D. Fairer/C. "And buried ashes glow with social fires. 20.8-9 lowly bed.] "There are a number of [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. there is a 2d edition; & again by Dodsley in his Miscellany, vol. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. blood.] air.] 59.4 Milton] "Tully. Sometimes you find that perfect someone lives in another city, state, country or continent. 41.5 animated] "As if alive or breathing. An editor of the Magazine of Magazines, a cheap periodical, sent word to Gray that he was about to print it, and naturally the author did not care to have a poem of this nature make its entrance into the world by so obscure a by-path. - Mason MS." E. Gosse, 1884. Bishop Hall's ''Contemplations,'' vi. fires.] 101.7-8 nodding beech] "Gray wrote from Burnham to [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. also C. Hopkins, 'Leander to Nero', The Art of Love (1709) p. 444: 'While on thy Lips I pour my parting Breath, / Look thee all o'er, and clasp thee close in Death; / Sigh out my Soul upon thy panting Breast.'". 105.1 - 112.10 'Hard ... he;] "These two stanzas form the [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. (The four stanzas which, according to Mason, originally ended the poem will be found infra, n. on l. flame.] Accordingly, so soon as the 16th of February, there appeared anonymously ''An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard. "Cp. Spenser, Faerie Queene I i 42, 7-8: 'whose dryer braine / Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake'; and III iv 54, 4: 'And thousand fancies bet his idle braine'.". 96-113; F. W. Bateson, English Poetry: A Critical Introduction (1950) pp. [...]" H.W. "By the heath-side and at his fav'rite tree. 317).". Starr/J.R. 1898]. 'Wind' has a more poetical connotation, for it suggests a long slowly-moving line of cattle rather than a closely packed herd.'' Title/Paratext] "The ''Elegy Written in a [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. Hendrickson, 1966. "had damp'd   Eton, with depress'd repress'd written above.". / Do shouts of triumph sooth great Caesar's ear? 11.8 bower,] "The proper sense of bower [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 1898]. 117.1-9 Here ... earth] "''how glad would lay me [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "Cp. "Cp. Some of the errors which Gray pointed out were corrected in the third edition (Q3). Mason. Title/Paratext] "There are numerous variations in [...]" W.C. Eppstein, 1959. This differs considerably from the form in which the poem was published, and for this reason it is printed below (Appendix I). Q[uarto]1; . Mason's tentative opinion that G. began the Elegy in 1742 was accepted by nineteenth-century editors and was also embellished: it was suggested, for example, that G. was inspired to begin the poem by the death of his uncle Jonathan Rogers in Oct. 1742; and this suggestion was balanced by the theory that he was inspired to take it up again after the death of his aunt Mary Antrobus in Nov. 1749. are the subject after all. "In a letter to Bedingfield in Aug. 1756 (Corresp ii 477) and in 1768 G[ray]. 127.1-7 (There ... repose)] "The Sonnet is No. Lost v 428-9: 'though from off the boughs each Morn / We brush mellifluous Dewes'; Thomson, Spring 103-6: 'Oft let me wander o'er the dewy fields / Where freshness breathes, and dash the trembling drops / From the bent bush, as through the verdant maze / Of sweet-briar hedges I pursue my walk'; and J. Warton, To a Lady who hates the Country (1746) 13-14: 'By health awoke at early morn, / We'll brush sweet dews from every thorn.' 47.4 rod] "He first wrote reins; and [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. undoubtedly intended 'Awaits', with 'hour' as the subject, in spite of the fact that 'await' appears in edd 9-12, in Dodsley's Collection in 1755, and in 1775. find poems find poets poem-a-day library (texts, books & … Hendrickson, 1966. 1891]. "Cp. It’s true, any girl wants her boyfriend to be as romantic as it’s only possible. "There are a number of passages strikingly similar to this. 65.2 lot] "Fate Eton, with Lot written [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. H.W. Cp. 1891]. What evidence could Mason have adduced that it was even begun in this year? Cp. "With hasty footsteps brush the [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. 's De Principiis Cogitandi ii 27-8 (p. See Agrippina, ll. 50.1-6 Rich ... time] "Mitford compares Sir T. Browne, [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. In accordance with G.'s wishes, Dodsley prefixed to the Elegy a short 'Advertisement' written by Walpole: Title/Paratext] "The success of the Elegy [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust. 92.1-5 Ev'n ... live] "And buried ashes glow with [...]" E. Gosse, 1884. "Decorated with carved work in patterns. Starr/J.R. Another explanation is that "awaits" has been "attracted" into the singular by "all that wealth e'er gave", and that the four clauses in lines 33f. "Fate with Lot written above, E[ton College MS.].". 2.4 wind] "Often incorrectly printed and quoted [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. "Of course in the sense of simple and unlettered. 41.2-3 storied urn] "An urn with an inscription [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. The text here given is that of the Edition of 1768, which appears to be authoritative and final. "These words occur together in Shakespeare: - ''And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, / And sleep in dull cold marble.'' 74.5 learned] "knew   Eton." Starr/J.R. "''how glad would lay me down / As in my mother's lap.'' Title/Paratext] "To the title of the [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Starr/J.R. There was a preface by Horace Walpole. Some recent discussions of the poem, in addition to those mentioned above, which should be consulted are: Roger Martin, Essai sur Thomas Gray (Paris, 1934) pp. Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, 'Jan'. Dr Bradshaw has ascertained that it was first printed in the third edition of the Elegy, March 1751. 110.1-8 'Along ... tree;] "By the heath-side and at [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. "Virgil, Aeneid iv 462-3: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo / saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces (And alone on the house-tops will ill-boding song the owl would often complain, drawing out its lingering notes into a wail).". On 1 Dec. 1773 Walpole wrote to Mason: 'The Churchyard was, I am persuaded, posterior to West's death at least three or four years, as you will see by my note. 'If case some one of you would fly from us' (3 Henry VI. Underlying the whole structure of the first version of the Elegy, reinforcing the poet's rejection of the great world and supplying many details of thought and phrasing, are two celebrated classical poems in praise of rural retirement from the corruption of the court and city: the passage beginning O fortunatos nimium in Virgil's Georgics ii 458 ff and Horace's second Epode, (Beatus ille ...). - Egerton MS." J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. Pastoral poetry romanticizes rustic or country living with a ‘back to nature’ sentiment. "Epitaphs are famous for ridiculous errors.". clarus, clear. "See note on Eton Ode [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. blood.] 'For who, even when death's hand was upon his very speech and memory, ever turned to die without regret for the pleasures and anxieties which fill human life, and without a desire to retain the human sympathy that he found there? Further examples are given in ll. Starr/J.R. Cp. "In 1748 Thomson had felt it necessary to include this word ('a Piece of Land, or Meadow') in the list of 'obsolete Words' at the end of The Castle of Indolence.". hour.] Cf. Many of its phrases have become integral parts of our language. For the history of its publication and an account of the different editions, etc., see An Elegy ... by Thomas Gray, ed. 79.1 With] "Written above a deleted word, [...]" H.W. Her family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and it is in this town which claims her as their own, there a statue of her on horseback has been erected. G.'s Pindaric Odes of the 1750s were to show his continuing preoccupation with the subject of the function of poetry in society: for all his assertions of its value, the deliberate obscurity of the poems themselves betrays G.'s own conviction that poetry could not and perhaps should not any longer attempt to communicate with society as a whole. 86.2-3 pleasing anxious] "Milton's 'intellectual being,' delightful in [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. - Egerton and Mason MSS.". "That Gray was inclined to [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "Knowledge or learning in general, described as 'fair' because conceived by G[ray]. Licensed under . 35.1 Awaits] "''Hour'' is the subject, not [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. Poole/L. "Perhaps in imitation of Ovid, Metamorphoses v 550: ignavus bubo (slothful owl). V. 4. "The 'Epitaph' was perhaps inspired [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Gray thereupon wrote to Dodsley asking him to print it, which he did, anonymously. 'And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Presumably Gray is referring to the unnamed individual who is writing the Elegy, but he may have had in mind merely an idealized rustic poet who is described in the succeeding stanzas. Hendrickson, 1966. Some love poems rhyme and some don't. 1898]. "After this verse, in the [...]" E. Gosse, 1884. R. Lonsdale, 1969. G. was understandably reluctant that his new poem should be first published in The Magazine of Magazines, a recently established and undistinguished periodical edited by William Owen. 81.5-9 spelt ... muse,] "'Under the yew tree [in [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 74.5 learned] "Knew. 60.2 Cromwell] "Caesar. 119.2 Science] "knowledge in general." Fable xv. by.] Gray is thinking of possible statesmen and warriors, as well as poets; although it is of poetic inspiration that the word was commonly used in a good sense. Hendrickson, 1966. in the British Museum. 101.1 'There] "Oft. Hendrickson, 1966. 5.1 - 8.7 Now ... folds;] "And here may be the [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. / Instruct me (for thou knowest)...'' - Par. Poole/L. air.] own.] "It is ''at the foot'' of a beech that Gray describes himself as ''squatting,'' in a letter to Walpole (already quoted, note on line 17 of the ''Ode on the Spring''), and there he ''grows to the trunk for a whole morning.''". H.W. It is Gothic architecture that Gray has in his mind's eye; the lines that go to make the fanshaped roof of King's College Chapel or of S. George's, Windsor, for example. A Far Country - Beyond the cities I have seen, Beyond the cities I have seen, - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. The present reading is written in the margin.". William Drummond, Sonnet xlix 11: 'Far from the madding worldling's hoarse discords'. 88, the only place in Milton's poems where ''precincts'' occurs: - ''Not far off Heaven, in the precincts of light.''". R. Lonsdale, 1969. "There are six stanzas altogether which have not commonly been printed as part of the "Elegy". 50.9 unroll;] "The image is of a [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "And buried Ashes glow with [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. A Mother's Lament For the Death of Her Son. Skeat hesitates between tracing it to an A.-S. word meaning to 'adorn,' or through French and Low-Latin to 'ferrum.' the well-known line from [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. 23.5 lisp] "speak with childlike utterance." 106.5-6 he would] "would he Pembroke and Wharton [...]" A.L. "Cp. 1891]. me.] Cowley has 'noble rage' in Davideis Bk iv; and see Pope, Windsor Forest 291: 'Here noble Surrey felt the sacred Rage'; and Prologue to Cato 43: 'Be justly warm'd with your own native rage'; and Collins, The Passions 111. "After this follows in Fraser [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 7.1-4 Save ... beetle] "Cf. 1898]. " Title/Paratext] "First printed by Dodsley in [...]" H.W. "Petrarch, Canzoniere 223 1-2: Quando [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Letter XI., ''Friday, midnight, I have now a calmer moment: Envy, ambition, high and selfish resentment, and all the violent passions are now, most probably, asleep around me; and shall not my own angry ones give way to the silent hour and subside likewise?'' 107.1-7 'Now ... forlorn,] "Now woeful wan, he droop'd, [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Poole/L. "Cp. 523 (describing the joys of the husbandman): 24.6 envied] "coming but envied written above [...]" H.W. "Cp. 4. Note Shakespeare's use of the word: 39.7 fretted] "adorned with interlacing fillets. Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? "The line in Fraser MS. stands thus: 'Some village Cato         with dauntless Breast.' The first two lines may barely pass, as not bad. 96.2 kindred] "hidden Q[uarto]1 [a misprint]." ''That this 'thing' was the Elegy there can be no doubt. - Original MS. [Mason [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. The body of a dead man ('this identical' four-limbed structure of flesh and bone) cannot be said to 'sleep by' a 'fable', except figuratively. "To the title of the Pembroke MS. he [Gray] has appended a note: ''Published in Febry. grave.] Starr/J.R. "Gray probably took this expression from Paradise Lost, III. 46.4-7 pregnant ... fire;] "Full of heaven-sent inspiration; cf. Two marginal problems associated with the Elegy may be mentioned in conclusion. 66.2 growing] "struggling in Fraser MS. with [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. XIII. 95.1-2 If chance,] "If by chance or if [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "Warm, creative. blood.] 45.1 - 51.6 Perhaps ... rage,] "For the thought from ll. Gray has it in ''Agrippina,'' 83, already quoted.". - Egerton MS." E. Gosse, 1884. flame.] Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! Spenser has 'chearfull day', Faerie Queene I iii 27, 7 and II vii 29, 4; and Colin Clout 856; and Pope, Odyssey xi 116 and 570.". 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