Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and WritingsJ. F. Dove, 1820 - 527 pages |
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... hear no more of it than that it is ever , Peterhouse , Dec. 23 , 1736 . Yours . LETTER VII . MR . WEST TO MR . GRAY . I HAVE been very ill , and am still hardly recovered . Do you remember Elegy 5th , Book i . e . A man who deals only ...
... hear no more of it than that it is ever , Peterhouse , Dec. 23 , 1736 . Yours . LETTER VII . MR . WEST TO MR . GRAY . I HAVE been very ill , and am still hardly recovered . Do you remember Elegy 5th , Book i . e . A man who deals only ...
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... hear the bad news of Lady Wal- pole's death on Saturday night last . Forgive me if the thought of what my poor Horace must feel , on that account , obliges me to have done in re- minding you that I am London , Aug. 22 , 1737 . Yours ...
... hear the bad news of Lady Wal- pole's death on Saturday night last . Forgive me if the thought of what my poor Horace must feel , on that account , obliges me to have done in re- minding you that I am London , Aug. 22 , 1737 . Yours ...
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... hear the la- dies and the nightingales sing . Next morning , being Whitsunday , make ready to go to the instal- lation of nine knights du Saint Esprit , Cambis is one : * high mass celebrated with music , great croud , much incense ...
... hear the la- dies and the nightingales sing . Next morning , being Whitsunday , make ready to go to the instal- lation of nine knights du Saint Esprit , Cambis is one : * high mass celebrated with music , great croud , much incense ...
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... hears a continual croaking of frogs ; the country round about is one great plain covered with vines , which at this time of the year afford no very pleasing prospect , as being not above a foot high . What pleasures the place denies to ...
... hears a continual croaking of frogs ; the country round about is one great plain covered with vines , which at this time of the year afford no very pleasing prospect , as being not above a foot high . What pleasures the place denies to ...
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... hear again from me . LETTER VI . MR . GRAY TO MR . WEST . Lyons , Sept. 18 , N.S. 1739 . Scavez vous bien , mon cher ami , que je vous hais , que je vous deteste ? voila des termes un peu forts ; and that will save me , upon a just ...
... hear again from me . LETTER VI . MR . GRAY TO MR . WEST . Lyons , Sept. 18 , N.S. 1739 . Scavez vous bien , mon cher ami , que je vous hais , que je vous deteste ? voila des termes un peu forts ; and that will save me , upon a just ...
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