. Home school of American literature: . n the groundeliding meteorus, as the evening mistRisen from a river oer the marish glides,And gathers ground fast at the laborers heelHomeward returning. High in front advancedThe brandished sword of God before them blazedFierce as a comet; which with torrid vapor as the Libyan air adust,Eegan to parch that temperate clime. Whereat In either hand the hastening angel caughtOur lingering parents, and to the eastern gateLed them direct, and down the cliff as fastTo the subjected plain ; then disappeared. They, looking back, all the eastern side beh
. Home school of American literature: . n the groundeliding meteorus, as the evening mistRisen from a river oer the marish glides,And gathers ground fast at the laborers heelHomeward returning. High in front advancedThe brandished sword of God before them blazedFierce as a comet; which with torrid vapor as the Libyan air adust,Eegan to parch that temperate clime. Whereat In either hand the hastening angel caughtOur lingering parents, and to the eastern gateLed them direct, and down the cliff as fastTo the subjected plain ; then disappeared. They, looking back, all the eastern side beheldOf Paradise, so late their happy over by that flaming brand, the gateWith dreadful faces thronged and fiery natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon :The world was all before them, where to chooseTheir place of rest, and Providence their , hand in hand,with wandering steps and Ede-n took their solitary way. V-f-e4t-7>-«^i^^**i/:^®^-f^<ii-^»-:vi i THOMAS GRAY. AUTHOR OF THE IMMORTAL ELEGY. SINGLE noble masterpiece, the Elegy Written in a CountryChurchyard is the foundation of the fame of Thomas Gray. Hewon distinction at Cambridge, and traveled abroad with HoraceWalpole, who complained that Gray was too serious a companionfor me ; he was for antiquities, etc., while I was for balls andplays. The fault was mine. Returning to England after the death of his father, Grayspent the rest of his life at Cambridge, He was offered the post of poet laureatein 1757, but declined it. He became Professor of History at Cambridge, but wasunfit for the office and delivered no lectures. The Elegy was printed in 1750. Few poems were ever so popular. Itran through eleven editions, and has ever since been one of those few favoritepieces that every one has by heart. His other poems contain a great number offamous lines, but are themselves little known. He died in 1771, in the fifty-fifthyear of his age. Gray was small and delicate in pers
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