The Works of Thomas Gray: LettersMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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... expect from your more cheerful hours ? For by this time the ill health that you complain of is ( I hope ) quite departed ; though , if I were self - interested , I ought to wish for the continuance of anything that could be the occasion ...
... expect from your more cheerful hours ? For by this time the ill health that you complain of is ( I hope ) quite departed ; though , if I were self - interested , I ought to wish for the continuance of anything that could be the occasion ...
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... expecting the future Carnival . We cannot well sub- sist upon such slender diet , no more than upon an execrable Italian Comedy , and a Puppet - Show , 1 called Rappresentazione d'un ' anima dannata , which , I think , are all the ...
... expecting the future Carnival . We cannot well sub- sist upon such slender diet , no more than upon an execrable Italian Comedy , and a Puppet - Show , 1 called Rappresentazione d'un ' anima dannata , which , I think , are all the ...
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... expect you should take a handsome crow - quill1 when 1 This was , as Mr. Gray wrote himself , small , neat , and terse . I have several of his letters to me . But as to spectacles , though he could joke about them when he had no ...
... expect you should take a handsome crow - quill1 when 1 This was , as Mr. Gray wrote himself , small , neat , and terse . I have several of his letters to me . But as to spectacles , though he could joke about them when he had no ...
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... expect an immediate ruin ; after that the sea had retired two hundred paces from the shore ( leaving abundance of fish , and springs of fresh water rising in the bottom ) , this mountain visibly ascended about the second hour of the ...
... expect an immediate ruin ; after that the sea had retired two hundred paces from the shore ( leaving abundance of fish , and springs of fresh water rising in the bottom ) , this mountain visibly ascended about the second hour of the ...
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... expect in a much shorter time to see you in your three - cornered villa , doing the honours of a well - furnished table with as much dignity , as rich a mien , and as capacious a belly as Dr. Mead . Methinks I see Dr. Askew at the lower ...
... expect in a much shorter time to see you in your three - cornered villa , doing the honours of a well - furnished table with as much dignity , as rich a mien , and as capacious a belly as Dr. Mead . Methinks I see Dr. Askew at the lower ...
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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!