Selections From the Poetry And Prose of Thomas Gray
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By reason whereof, King Henrie the Seaventh sued to Pope lulio the Second to have him canonized a saint. But for that the c nonizing of a king seemed to be more costlie than for a bishop, the said king left off his sute in that behalf. " Wakefield calls attention to some of Gray's other references to Henry VI. : "And spare the meek Usurper's holy head, " Bard, v. 90; "the murther'd saint, " Ode for Music, v. 46. 5. And ye, etc. The towers of the castle of Windsor, the present residence of the Q...ueen. 9, Hoary Thames. Rivers are often spoken of as old; cf. "Old Father Tiber. " Cf. Also Pope, " Old father Thames advanced his reverend head, " Windsor Forest, 330. Cf. Also Spenser's famous description of "full-aged" Thame {F. Q. Iv, 11, 25-26), and Milton's of Camus "reverend sire, " Lycidas, 103 ff. 12. Fields belov'd in vain. They recall to him the happy days he had spent with his school friend Richard West, who had just died (seep. 127). These fields cannot now give him any pleasure, because they remind him of his loss.
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