The Poems and Letters of Thomas GrayR. Priestley, 1820 - 537 pages |
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Page 39
... March , 1737 , he says , " I learn Italian like any dragon , and in two months am got through the sixteenth book of Tasso , whom I hold in great admiration : I want you to learn too , that I may know your opinion of him ; nothing can be ...
... March , 1737 , he says , " I learn Italian like any dragon , and in two months am got through the sixteenth book of Tasso , whom I hold in great admiration : I want you to learn too , that I may know your opinion of him ; nothing can be ...
Page 41
... March follow- ing , in which interval Mr. Walpole being disin- clined to enter so early into the business of Par- liament , prevailed on Sir Robert Walpole to per- mit him to go abroad , and on Mr. Gray ( as was said before ) to be the ...
... March follow- ing , in which interval Mr. Walpole being disin- clined to enter so early into the business of Par- liament , prevailed on Sir Robert Walpole to per- mit him to go abroad , and on Mr. Gray ( as was said before ) to be the ...
Page 82
Thomas Gray. LETTER XVII . MR . GRAY TO HIS MOTHER . Florence , March 19 , 1740 . THE Pope is at last dead , and we are to set out for Rome on Monday next . The conclave is still sitting there , and likely to continue so some time longer ...
Thomas Gray. LETTER XVII . MR . GRAY TO HIS MOTHER . Florence , March 19 , 1740 . THE Pope is at last dead , and we are to set out for Rome on Monday next . The conclave is still sitting there , and likely to continue so some time longer ...
Page 117
... march was near three hours in passing before the window . The subject of all this devotion is supposed to be a large tile with a rude figure in bas - relief upon it . I say supposed , because since the time it was found ( for it was ...
... march was near three hours in passing before the window . The subject of all this devotion is supposed to be a large tile with a rude figure in bas - relief upon it . I say supposed , because since the time it was found ( for it was ...
Page 125
... March 1742 , and , for the benefit of the air , went to David Mitchell's , Esq . at Popes , near Hatfield , Hertford- shire ; at whose house he died the 1st of June following . It is from this place , and from the former date , that ...
... March 1742 , and , for the benefit of the air , went to David Mitchell's , Esq . at Popes , near Hatfield , Hertford- shire ; at whose house he died the 1st of June following . It is from this place , and from the former date , that ...
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