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" One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him... "
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 64
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...mom I miss'd him on the eustom'd hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree. Another eame ; th gore : Then first the flamen tasted living food...smear'd with human blood ; With Heaven's own thunders ehureh- way path we saw him borne. Approaeh and read (for thou eanst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...cross'd in hopeless love. ' One morn I miss'd him on th' accustom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree : Another came ; nor yet beside the...Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' The Epitaph. HERE rests hip head upon the lap of earth...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...cross'd in hopeless love. " One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the...due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we s;iw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...hopeless love. " One morn I miss'd him on the 'custom'd hill, Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor...borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HEBE rests his head upon the lap of Earth,...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...hopeless love. " One morn, I miss'd him on th' accustom'd hill, " Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree ; " Another came, nor yet beside the rill, "...churchway path we saw him borne. " Approach and read (for tliou can'st read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...favourite tree : ' Another came ; nor yet beside the rilJ, ' Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. t ' The next with dirges due, in sad array, ' Slow through...' Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, ' Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth,...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...crossed in hopeless love. " One morn I missed him on the accustomed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree : Another came; nor yet beside the...read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." » The Epi'aph. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...the custom'd hill, Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree; Another came, nor yet beside the rill, 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through...read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown....
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...hopeless love. "One mom I missed him on the customed hill. Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree; 110 Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the...array Slow through the church-way path we saw him bome. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thom."...
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Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future

Alan D. Chalmers - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 188 pages
...natural landscape: "One Morn I miss'd him on the custom'd Hill, Along the Heath and near his fav'rite Tree; Another came; nor yet beside the Rill, Nor up the Lawn nor at the Wood was he." (109-12) This difference derives in part from the imperatives of the poems' respective genres — though...
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