Template:RQ:Gray Poems

a. 1772 (date written), [Thomas] Gray, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poems of Mr. Gray. […], York, Yorkshire: […] A. Ward; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […]; and J. Todd, […], published 1775, →OCLC:

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Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of Thomas Gray's works entitled The Poems of Mr. Gray (1st edition, 1775). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – mandatory in some cases:
  • If quoting from "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Gray" by William Mason, specify |chapter=Memoirs.
  • If quoting from "Imitations, Variations, and Additional Notes", use this parameter to specify the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |quotee= – if quoting from a part of the "Memoirs" which is by Gray, specify |quotee=Gray.
• |letter= and |lettername= – if quoting from one of the letters in the "Memoirs", use |letter= to specify the letter number in uppercase Roman numerals, and |lettername= the name of the letter.
• |subchapter= – if quoting from a subchapter of the "Memoirs", the name of the subchapter.
• |date= – if quoting from one of the letters in the "Memoirs", use this parameter to specify the date of the letter in the format 14 November 1735 or November 14, 1735. Dates up to 2 September 1752 will be converted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
• |stanza= – the stanza number quoted from.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. 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.
  • 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 determine the poem quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

The pagination restarts from 1 in the part of the work containing the poems.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Gray Poems|stanza=II.2|page=31|passage=Fair laughs the Morn, and ſoft the Zephyr blovvs, / VVhile proudly riding o'er the azure realm / In gallant trim the gilded Veſſel goes; / Youth on the provv, and Pleaſure at the '''helm'''; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Gray Poems|stanza=II.2|31|Fair laughs the Morn, and ſoft the Zephyr blovvs, / VVhile proudly riding o'er the azure realm / In gallant trim the gilded Veſſel goes; / Youth on the provv, and Pleaſure at the '''helm'''; {{...}}}}; or
• Result:
  • 1755–1757 (date written), [Thomas] Gray, “Ode VI. The Bard. Pindaric.”, in The Poems of Mr. Gray. […], York, Yorkshire: […] A. Ward; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […]; and J. Todd, […], published 1775, →OCLC, stanza II.2, page 31:

    Fair laughs the Morn, and ſoft the Zephyr blovvs, / VVhile proudly riding o'er the azure realm / In gallant trim the gilded Veſſel goes; / Youth on the provv, and Pleaſure at the helm; […]