Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and WritingsJ. F. Dove, 1820 - 527 pages |
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... thought it not worth while to answer my last letter . I hope this will have better success in behalf of your quondam school - fellow ; in behalf of one who has walked hand in hand with you , like the two children in the wood , Through ...
... thought it not worth while to answer my last letter . I hope this will have better success in behalf of your quondam school - fellow ; in behalf of one who has walked hand in hand with you , like the two children in the wood , Through ...
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... thought it so when I had seen it ; but sincerely it pleased me best . Methinks the college bards have run into a strange taste on this occasion . Such soft , un- meaning stuff about Venus and Cupid , and Peleus and Thetis , and Zephyrs ...
... thought it so when I had seen it ; but sincerely it pleased me best . Methinks the college bards have run into a strange taste on this occasion . Such soft , un- meaning stuff about Venus and Cupid , and Peleus and Thetis , and Zephyrs ...
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... thought is 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 ...
... thought is 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 ...
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... thought would be most likely to please the generality of readers ; omitting , though with regret , many of the more sprightly and humorous sort , because either from their per- sonality , or some other local circumstance , they did not ...
... thought would be most likely to please the generality of readers ; omitting , though with regret , many of the more sprightly and humorous sort , because either from their per- sonality , or some other local circumstance , they did not ...
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... thought but all the world might know ? As yet just started from the lists of time , My growing years have scarcely told their prime ; Useless , as yet , through life I've idly run , No pleasures tasted , and few duties done . * Ah ! who ...
... thought but all the world might know ? As yet just started from the lists of time , My growing years have scarcely told their prime ; Useless , as yet , through life I've idly run , No pleasures tasted , and few duties done . * Ah ! who ...
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