The Works of Thomas Gray: LettersMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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... DEAR WEST - My letter enjoys itself before it is opened , in imagining the confusion you will be in when you hear that a coach and six is just stopped at Christ Church gates , and desires to speak with you , with a huddle of things in ...
... DEAR WEST - My letter enjoys itself before it is opened , in imagining the confusion you will be in when you hear that a coach and six is just stopped at Christ Church gates , and desires to speak with you , with a huddle of things in ...
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... DEAR SIR - I should say2 Mr. Inspector - General of the Exports and Imports ; but that appellation would 1 This is a strange construction , and in all probability in- correctly copied .- [ Ed . ] 2 Mr. Walpole was just named to that ...
... DEAR SIR - I should say2 Mr. Inspector - General of the Exports and Imports ; but that appellation would 1 This is a strange construction , and in all probability in- correctly copied .- [ Ed . ] 2 Mr. Walpole was just named to that ...
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... dear West , I am vastly delighted with Trianon , all of us with Chantilly ; if you would know why , you must have patience , for I can hold my pen no longer , except to tell you that I saw Britannicus last night ; all the characters ...
... dear West , I am vastly delighted with Trianon , all of us with Chantilly ; if you would know why , you must have patience , for I can hold my pen no longer , except to tell you that I saw Britannicus last night ; all the characters ...
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... dear West , I hope I shall never see them again . At the foot of Mount Cenis we were obliged to quit our chaise , which was taken all to pieces and loaded on mules ; and we were carried in low arm- chairs , on poles , swathed in beaver ...
... dear West , I hope I shall never see them again . At the foot of Mount Cenis we were obliged to quit our chaise , which was taken all to pieces and loaded on mules ; and we were carried in low arm- chairs , on poles , swathed in beaver ...
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... DEAR , DEAR WHARTON1- ( Which is a dear more than I give anybody else . It is very odd to begin with a parenthesis , but ) You may think me a beast for not haveing sooner wrote to you , and to be sure a beast I am . Now , when one owns ...
... DEAR , DEAR WHARTON1- ( Which is a dear more than I give anybody else . It is very odd to begin with a parenthesis , but ) You may think me a beast for not haveing sooner wrote to you , and to be sure a beast I am . Now , when one owns ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire Amst Antistrophe appear beautiful believe best compliments Brown called Cambridge Caractacus church College Comédie Française Conyers Middleton DEAR DOCTOR-I DEAR MASON-I dear Sir desire Dodsley Duke edition Elidurus eyes famous Florence fortnight give glad gout Gray's head hear heard hither honour hope HORACE WALPOLE imagine JAMES BROWN journey King Lady letter lines live London Lord master mention miles mountains Naples never night obliged opinion pass Pembroke Pembroke College perhaps Peterhouse Pindar pleasure Poems Pray printed published RICHARD WEST Rome seen shew sincerely Sir John Mordaunt soon sorry sort spirit stanza Stoke Stonhewer suppose sure Syphax Tacitus talk tell thing THOMAS WHARTON thought told town Tuthill verse Walpole's week WILLIAM MASON wish wonder word write wrote
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Page 268 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro...
Page 5 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 271 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud...
Page 108 - I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry ; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself ; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatives : nay sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespeare and Milton have been great creators this way ; and...
Page 346 - The office itself has always humbled the professor hitherto (even in an age when kings were somebody), if he were a poor writer by making him more conspicuous, and if he were a good one by setting him at war with the little fry of his own profession, for there are poets little enough to envy even a poet-laureat.
Page 268 - Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford A tear to grace his obsequies ! Is the sable warrior fled ? — Thy son is gone ; he rests among the dead.
Page 269 - Edward, lo ! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof, the thread is spun !) Half of thy heart we consecrate ; (The web is wove, the work is done...
Page 313 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Page 269 - Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof; The thread is spun;) Half of thy heart we consecrate. (The web is wove; The work is done.) — Stay, oh stay!