Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . ): Dark with excessive kind than that of Dryden on bright thy skirts appear. St. Cecilias Day.—Gray. 103. Dryden. Gray admired Dryden 113. Waltes thee now: that is, in this almost beyond bounds. He poem.—he. Gray is here mod- told Beattie that if there was estly referring to himself. 14 GJ^AV. Nor the pride nor ample pinion* That the Theban eagle bear,Sailing with supreme domi
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . ): Dark with excessive kind than that of Dryden on bright thy skirts appear. St. Cecilias Day.—Gray. 103. Dryden. Gray admired Dryden 113. Waltes thee now: that is, in this almost beyond bounds. He poem.—he. Gray is here mod- told Beattie that if there was estly referring to himself. 14 GJ^AV. Nor the pride nor ample pinion* That the Theban eagle bear,Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air;Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muses rayWith orient hues, unborrowed of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant wayBeyond the limits of a vulgar fate,Beneath the good how far ! but far above the great. 115. Theban eagle, Pindar. 120. With orient hues. Compare Mil-ton {Paradise Lost, i., 546) :with orient colors waving. 122. Beyond . .. fate. Grays original manuscript has, Yet never canhe fear a vulgar fate. Thechange is an the great, the merely worldly great,high in station. XIII. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. i^^^^^-^ ^.tT-t^^^--^^-^ THACKERAYS TRIBUTE TO GOLDSMITH. 1. Who, of the millions whom Goldsmith has amused, doesntlove him ? To be the most beloved of English writers, what atitle that is for a man! A wild youth, wayward, but full of ten- * From Thackerays Humorists of the Eighteenth Century. 212 GOLDSMITH. derness and affection, quits the country village where his boy-hood has been passed in happy musing, in idle shelter, in fondlonging to see the great world out-of-doors, and achieve nameand fortune ; and after years of dire struggle, and neglect andpoverty, his heart turning back as fondly to his native place as ithad longed eagerly for change when sheltered there, he writes abook and a poem full of the recollections and feelings of home—he paints the friends an
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