Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and WritingsJ. F. Dove, 1820 - 527 pages |
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... believe Mr. Wal- pole's phrase not very hyperbolical , who has often asserted to me that , " Gray never was a boy . " In April , 1738 , Mr. West left Christ Church for the Inner Temple , and Mr. Gray removed from Peterhouse to town the ...
... believe Mr. Wal- pole's phrase not very hyperbolical , who has often asserted to me that , " Gray never was a boy . " In April , 1738 , Mr. West left Christ Church for the Inner Temple , and Mr. Gray removed from Peterhouse to town the ...
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... my life is but a span , were I not afraid lest you should not believe that a person so short - lived could write even so long a letter as this ; (い 11 From Mr WEST Sends him a translation into Latin of a Greek epi- gram.
... my life is but a span , were I not afraid lest you should not believe that a person so short - lived could write even so long a letter as this ; (い 11 From Mr WEST Sends him a translation into Latin of a Greek epi- gram.
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... believe I must not send you the history of my own time , till I can send you that also of the reforma- tion . * However , as the most undeserving people in the world must sure have the vanity to wish somebody had a regard for them , so ...
... believe I must not send you the history of my own time , till I can send you that also of the reforma- tion . * However , as the most undeserving people in the world must sure have the vanity to wish somebody had a regard for them , so ...
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... very juvenile , but perhaps he meant to ridicule the affected manner of Mrs. Rowe's Letters of the Dead to the Living ; a book which was , I believe , published about this time . you may have contracted in the other , but pray ( 17 )
... very juvenile , but perhaps he meant to ridicule the affected manner of Mrs. Rowe's Letters of the Dead to the Living ; a book which was , I believe , published about this time . you may have contracted in the other , but pray ( 17 )
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... believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions , and be discarded . Would I could turn them to the same use that you have done , and make an Apollo of them . If they could write such verses with me ( 25 )
... believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions , and be discarded . Would I could turn them to the same use that you have done , and make an Apollo of them . If they could write such verses with me ( 25 )
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