 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.4 Nowadays, rather than... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard...images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning "Yet e'en these bones"... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1997 - 212 pages
...nevertheless was compelled to the highest praise of Gray on encountering notions that seemed to him original: The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning Yet even these bones, are... | |
 | Sandie Byrne - 1997 - 258 pages
...in the mid-19Sos'81 echoes Dr Johnson's claim (in Lives of the English Poets, vol. 1) that the Elegy 'abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo', and John Guillory's suggestion that the poem 'seems... | |
 | Alan Sinfield, Lindsay Smith - 1998 - 208 pages
...with lirerary prejudices, afrer all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which even,' bosom rcturns an echo.14 This aligning of... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 pages
...reader even further, allowing him only a reactive and not notably selfaware affinity for Gray's poem: "The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."77 The common reader was among Johnson's most authoritative... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray (1716-1771). Samuel Johnson paid it high tribute, declaring that it "abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Northwest of London, not far from Windsor Castle... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilry and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours....images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning Yet even these bones, are... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 pages
...Johnson singles out the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" for special praise: The Church yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning "Yet even these bones,"... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - 2006 - 230 pages
...nature."18 For Johnson, it is the "general" nostalgia of a poem like Gray's Elegy that makes its successful: "The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."19 To find these echoes, Gray and other poets turned... | |
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Yet even these bones," are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. 
