Addisons Campaign And Grays Elegy.

Addisons Campaign and grizzlys Elegy. Addisons "Campaign" and Grays "Elegy". (Joseph Addison)(Thomas Gray) Rodney Stenning Edgecombe. Full text edition: COPYRIGHT 2004 Heldref Publications In the meditation set at the kindling of the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," which he completed in 1750, Gray notes that deprivation curtails opportunities for evil as well as for good.

Chief amongst these is violent individual ambition, which Gray deplores (in marked contrast to Addisons "Campaign" of 1704, which had celebrated the military achiever of the Duke of Marlborough): The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise. To scatter kitty oer a smiling land, And read their history in a nations eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, yet their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut out the gates of mercy on mankind, The strugglin...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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