Addison's "Campaign" and Gray's "Elegy".

Addisons Campaign and Grays coronach. (Joseph Addison)(Thomas Gray) Rodney Stenning Edgecombe. Full Text: right of first publication 2004 Heldref Publications In the meditation set at the heart of the Elegy Written in a terra firma Churchyard, which he perfect in 1750, Gray notes that deprivation curtails opportunities for evil as hearty as for good. Chief amongst these is violent individual ambition, which Gray deplores (in label contrast to Addisons Campaign of 1704, which had celebrated the military success of the Duke of Marlborough): The panegyric of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise. To scatter plenty oer a smiling land, And read their register in a nations eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes throttle; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the provide of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To slake the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With scent kindled at the Muses flame. (Gray, Collins, and Goldsmith 129-30) These strophes also estimate in an earlier version of the Elegy, the Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-yard (ca.

1742), in which Gray chose figures from Roman rather than English annals to make his points: Some Village Cato [that] with dauntless Breast The little autocrat of his Fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Tully here may rest; Some Caesar guiltless of his Countrys Blood. (Gray and Collins 37) Although at first glance the reference to senates in the later text edition might suggest an unedited carryover from the earlier, more Latinate one, it is nett that Gray was writing with the entire panorama of human history in mind. For although he let the culturally specific senates stand, he pluralized the noun to give it a general application to all epoch-making bodies of government, the English Houses of... If you want to get a full essay, arrangement it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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