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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 243 — BOOK VIII[239]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Chateaubriand: Tombeaux champêtres, 52-53, imitated from Gray's Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. Cf. 57-60:

"Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."—T.

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