...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love, and to forgive,...scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a man. ON THE SPRING. Lo ! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, Fair Venus"' train, appear, Disclose the long-expected...

...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there, To soften, not to wound the heart. The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, Wha* others are, to feel, and know myselt a man. JOHNSON. FROM " THE VANITY OP HUMAN WISHES: ON what...

...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there, To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive; Teach me to love and to forgive;...scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds...

...influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there, To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark3 extinct revive ; Teach me to love and to forgive ;...scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.4 GRAY. 1. What is meant by purple tyrants f I S. Meaning of generous sparkf 2. To whit? I 4. Paraphrase...

...philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The gen'rous spark extinct revive, 45 Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects...scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man. Lost, act iv. so. 3. In Beaumont. Passionate Madman, act iii. sc. 1 : " A look that's fasten'd to the...

...classically poetical ; but might now perish almost unobserved. Yet the last stanza is worth rescuing : " Teach me to love and to forgive ; Exact my own defects...; What others are to feel, and know Myself a man." " The Progress of Poesy " though illconceived in its plan, and sometimes unintelligible, contains passages...

...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive,...scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a man. — T. GRAY THE OLD MAN AND KRISHNA. There was once a certain old man, who, whatever he did, used to...

...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart, The' generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive,...scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man. 48 IJ42. 1753. Thomas Gray. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE YE distant spires, ye antique...

...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart, The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive,...to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself ;i Man. 48 77^.'. 1753. Thomas Gray. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE YE distant spires, ye...

...milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive Teach me to love, and to forgive,...scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man. THE PROGRESS OF POESY. ii Awake, ^Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings....