The Works of Thomas Gray: Letters

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Macmillan, 1884 - 4 pages

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To Horace Walpole
11
To Richard West
13
To Richard West
15
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
16
To Richard West
19
To Richard West
24
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
28
To Philip Gray
31
To Richard West
32
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
35
To Philip Gray
37
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
40
To Richard West
43
LETTER PAGE XXIII To Richard West
47
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
49
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
51
To Richard West
54
To Thomas Wharton
55
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
63
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
64
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
68
To Richard West
70
To Richard West
72
To Richard West
77
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
80
To Philip Gray
83
To Richard West
86
To Richard West
90
To Mrs Dorothy Gray
92
To Richard West
94
To Philip Gray
97
To Philip Gray
99
To Richard West
101
To Richard West
104
To Richard West
106
To Richard West
110
To Richard West
112
To Richard West
113
To Thomas Wharton
116
To Thomas Wharton
119
To Thomas Wharton
122
To Thomas Wharton
123
To John ChuteFragment
125
To Horace Walpole
129
LETTER PAGE LIV To John Chute
131
To John Chute
136
To Thomas Wharton
137
To Thomas Wharton
145
To Thomas Wharton
154
To Thomas Wharton
157
To Thomas Wharton
160
To Horace Walpole
165
To Horace Walpole
166
To Horace Walpole
169
To Horace Walpole
172
To Thomas Wharton
175
To Thomas Wharton
176
To Thomas Wharton
177
To Thomas Wharton
181
To Thomas Wharton
185
To Thomas Wharton
188
To Thomas Wharton
191
To Thomas Wharton
195
To Thomas Wharton
198
To Thomas Wharton
201
To John Chute
204
To John Chute
206
To Dorothy Gray
208
To Horace Walpole
209
To Horace Walpole
210
To Horace Walpole
211
To Horace Walpole
212
To Horace Walpole
233
To Robert Dodsley
236
To Thomas Wharton
237
To Thomas Wharton
238
To Thomas Wharton
239
To the Rev William Mason
240
To the Rev William Mason
242
To the Rev William Mason
243
To Thomas Wharton
245
To the Rev William Mason
250
To Thomas Wharton
251
To Thomas Wharton
254
To Thomas Wharton
259
To Thomas Wharton
260
To Thomas Wharton
261
To Thomas Wharton
264
To Thomas Wharton
266
To John Chute
271
To Thomas Wharton
272
To Thomas Wharton
274
To Richard Stonehewer
277
To Thomas Wharton
279
To the Rev William Mason
283
To the Rev William Mason
285
To the Rev William Mason
287
LETTER PAGE CXVI To Thomas Wharton
290
To Thomas Wharton
291
To Thomas Wharton
292
To the Rev William Mason
293
To Thomas Wharton
307
To Thomas Wharton
308
To the Rev William Mason
309
To the Rev William Mason
311
To the Rev William Mason
314
To Horace Walpole
318
To the Rev James Brown
319
To the Rev William Mason
321
To the Rev James Brown
322
To Thomas Wharton
323
To the Rev Richard Hurd
324
To the Rev William Mason
326
To Horace Walpole
329
To Thomas Wharton
330
To the Rev William Mason
332
To the Rev William Mason
338
To Thomas Wharton
340
To Thomas Wharton
342
To Thomas Wharton
343
To the Rev William Mason
344
To the Rev William Mason
347
To Thomas Wharton
350
To the Rev William Mason
354
To Thomas Wharton
359
To Thomas Wharton
360
To the Rev William Mason
362
To Thomas Wharton
364
To the Rev William Mason
367
To Thomas Wharton
369
To the Rev William Mason
370
To Richard Stonehewer
373
To Thomas Wharton
376
To the Rev James Brown
377
To William Palgrave
379
To Thomas Wharton
381
To the Rev James Brown
383
To Thomas Wharton
384
To the Rev William Mason
386
To Thomas Wharton
387
To the Rev William Mason
390
To the Rev William Mason
392
To the Rev William Mason
394
To Thomas Wharton
397

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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...
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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...
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