2018年2月15日 星期四

ThomasGray’s great ‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’

“Full many a desert flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air”.
#ThomasGray’s great ‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’ was first published #onthisday 1751. Two years later the celebrated edition with designs by Richard Bentley appeared. Here it is:

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