Template:RQ:Gray Works

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a. 1772 (date written), Thomas Gray, “(please specify the page)”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. [], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC:

Usage

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of Thomas Gray's works edited by Edmund Gosse entitled The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse (1st edition, 1884, 4 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:Gray Six Poems}}), use it instead of this template.

Parameters

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The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1= or |volume=mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=IV.
  • |2=, |chapter=, |poem=, or |title=mandatory in some cases: if quoting from volume I or IV, the name of the chapter, poem, or title quoted from, if the template does not automatically provide it. If quoting from one of the titles indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse
Parameter value Result First page number
Volume I
Ode on the Spring Ode on the Spring (written June 1742; published 1748) page 3
Essays
Metrum (written c. 1760–1761)
Observations on the Pseudo-rhythmus Observations on the Pseudo-rhythmus page 361
Volume II
Volume III
Volume IV
  • |letter=, and |2=, |lettername=, |chapter=, or |title= – if quoting from one of the letters in volume II or III, use |letter= to specify the letter number in uppercase Roman numerals, and |2=, |lettername=, |chapter=, or |title= the name of the letter.
  • |date=, or (|month= and) |year= – if quoting from title (such as a letter) which has a specific date that is not automatically provided by the template, use |date= to specify the date of the title in the format 8 May 1736 or May 8, 1736 (dates up to 2 September 1752 will be converted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar), or (|month= and) |year= to specify the (month and) year of the title.
  • |stanza= – if quoting from a poem, the stanza number quoted from.
  • |3= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
    • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=x–xi.
    • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
You must specify this information to have the template, in some cases, determine the title quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
  • |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
  • |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
  • |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

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  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Gray Works|volume=I|poem=Ode to the Spring|stanza=1|page=5|passage=Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, / Fair [[w:Venus (mythology)|{{smallcaps|Venus}}]]' train appear, / Disclose the long-expecting flowers, / And wake the '''purple''' year!}}; or
    • {{RQ:Gray Works|I|Ode to the Spring|stanza=1|5|Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, / Fair [[w:Venus (mythology)|{{smallcaps|Venus}}]]' train appear, / Disclose the long-expecting flowers, / And wake the '''purple''' year!}}; or
  • Result:
    • Thomas Gray, “[Poems.] Ode to the Spring.”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. [], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 5:
      Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, / Fair Venus' train appear, / Disclose the long-expecting flowers, / And wake the purple year!
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Gray Works|volume=I|chapter=Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus|pages=374–375|pageref=375|passage=Observe, that, if the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the '''Leonine''' verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false; {{...}} It is not therefore very likely, as Leonius flourished in 1154, that he should give name to such Latin verses upwards of thirty years before. Indeed some people have thought that it was called after [[w:Pope Leo II|{{smallcaps|Leo}}]], probably the Second, who lived in 684, a pope who is said to have reformed the hymns and the music of the church.}}
  • Result:
    • c. 1760–1761 (date written; published 1814), Thomas Gray, “[Essays. Metrum.] Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus.”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. [], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 374–375:
      Observe, that, if the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the Leonine verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false; [] It is not therefore very likely, as Leonius flourished in 1154, that he should give name to such Latin verses upwards of thirty years before. Indeed some people have thought that it was called after Leo, probably the Second, who lived in 684, a pope who is said to have reformed the hymns and the music of the church.