To Mr. Gray, on his odes

To Mr. Gray, on his odes

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TO Mr. GRAY, ON HIS ODES.

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TO Mr. GRAY, ON HIS ODES.

I.

REPINE not, GRAY, that our weak dazzled Eyes

Thy daring heights and brightness shun,

How few can track the Eagle to the skies,

Or like Him, gaze upon the Sun!

II.

The gentle Reader loves the gentle Muse,

That little dares, and little means,

Who humbly sips her Learning from Reviews,

Or flutters in the Magazines.

III.

No longer now from Learning's sacred Store

Our Minds their health and vigor draw;

HOMER, and PINDAR are rever'd no more,

No more the Stagyrite is Law.

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IV.

Tho' nurst by these, in vain thy Muse appears,

To breath her ardors in our Souls;

In vain to sightless Eyes, and deaden'd Ears

The Light'ning gleams, and Thunder rolls!

V.

Yet droop not, GRAY, nor quit thy Heav'n-born Art,

Again thy wond'rous Powers reveal,

Wake slumb'ring Virtue in the Briton's Heart.

And rouse Us to reflect, and feel!

VI.

With antient Deeds our long-chill'd Bosoms fire,

Those Deeds, which mark ELIZA's reign!

Make Britons, Greeks again—Then strike the Lyre,

And PINDAR shall not Sing in vain.

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Title statement

To Mr. Gray, on his odes

Garrick, David, 1717-1779.

Publication

Publisher

University of Michigan Library

Place of publication

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Date

2007 January

ID [DLPS]

004772929

ID [ESTC]

N13888

ID [DOCNO]

CW112998134

ID [TCP]

K008591.000

ID [GALEDOCNO]

CW3312998134

ID [CONTENTSET]

ECLL

ID [IMAGESETID]

0149003200

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— To Mr. Gray, on his odes, Garrick, David, 1717-1779..

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printed at the Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate,. [Twickenham :: 1797?]. (Anonymous. By David Garrick.) (Verse - "Repine not, Gray, that our weak dazzled Eyes".) (One of Kirgate's reprints, published possibly in 1797 after Walpole's death but before Kirgate's departure from Strawberry Hill and distinguished from the original edition by a flaw in the comma following "Gray".) (Imprint from Hazen, p.13.) (Reproduction of original from the Harvard University Houghton Library.) (Hazen. Strawberry Hill, Detached Pieces 7) (English Short Title Catalog, ESTCN13888.) (Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group).)

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