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" And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that... "
Poésies de Gray - Page 13
by Thomas Gray - 1797 - 173 pages
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Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry Newman

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...two utterances remain significant: Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. 139 For Newman,...
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Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance

Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain. He then pronounces...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire', Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear. And weep the more, because I weep in vain.'' Wordsworth dismisses...
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Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-century Literature

David H. Richter - 1999 - 300 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. 1 These lines, Thomas...
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Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Martin Montgomery - 2000 - 390 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to chear. And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain: I fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. (Gray, 'Sonnet...
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Thomas Gray: A Life

Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...my mind the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. (PTG 67-68) Critical...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 754 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their li ttle loves the birds complain : 1 fruitless mourn to him that can not hear, And weep the more, because...
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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-era Revival, 1750-1850

Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 2002 - 306 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain: I fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Thomas Warton...
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Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-bom pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their litde loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields to all their wonted...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. Wordsworth seems...
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