The Works of Thomas Gray: LettersMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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... perhaps it may also allude to your habitation , for you know all types may be taken by abundance of handles ; however , I defy your owls to match mine . If the default of your spirits and nerves be no- thing but the effect of the hyp ...
... perhaps it may also allude to your habitation , for you know all types may be taken by abundance of handles ; however , I defy your owls to match mine . If the default of your spirits and nerves be no- thing but the effect of the hyp ...
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... 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 . [ Mason . ] 2 Horace Walpole , Earl of Orford ( 1717-1797 ) , entered Eton on ...
... 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 . [ Mason . ] 2 Horace Walpole , Earl of Orford ( 1717-1797 ) , entered Eton on ...
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... perhaps slip a little out of your pocket , as a decayed gentlewoman would a piece of right mecklin , or a little quantity of run · tea , but this only now and then , not to make a prac- tice of it . Monsters appertaining to this climate ...
... perhaps slip a little out of your pocket , as a decayed gentlewoman would a piece of right mecklin , or a little quantity of run · tea , but this only now and then , not to make a prac- tice of it . Monsters appertaining to this climate ...
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... perhaps be as much ad- mired as the Via Appia ; there are at present several rivulets to be crossed , and which serve to enliven the view all around , The country is exceeding fruitful in ravens and such black cattle ; but , not to tire ...
... perhaps be as much ad- mired as the Via Appia ; there are at present several rivulets to be crossed , and which serve to enliven the view all around , The country is exceeding fruitful in ravens and such black cattle ; but , not to tire ...
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... perhaps the best comic dramatist of that age . It was brought out at the Comédie Française on the 15th of February 1727 , and its plot was founded on the poet's own secret marriage with Dorothy Johnston in London , in 1723.— [ Ed . ] 4 ...
... perhaps the best comic dramatist of that age . It was brought out at the Comédie Française on the 15th of February 1727 , and its plot was founded on the poet's own secret marriage with Dorothy Johnston in London , in 1723.— [ Ed . ] 4 ...
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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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