The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1912 - Poets, English |
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... edition owes the more exact reprint of the Journal in the Lakes , to Mr. W. L. Courtney and Mr. H. Littledale , whose loss many students have cause to lament . An early correspondence of Gray's , which is said to throw light upon his ...
... edition owes the more exact reprint of the Journal in the Lakes , to Mr. W. L. Courtney and Mr. H. Littledale , whose loss many students have cause to lament . An early correspondence of Gray's , which is said to throw light upon his ...
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... edition of his works . - Mason . 2 After this follow , according to Mason , the words , " and this is no small honour to us , since neither Italy nor France have ever had the least notion of it , nor yet do at all comprehend it when ...
... edition of his works . - Mason . 2 After this follow , according to Mason , the words , " and this is no small honour to us , since neither Italy nor France have ever had the least notion of it , nor yet do at all comprehend it when ...
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... editions of the classics were very famous , some of them remarkable for their extremely minute size , but all exquisitely printed . We shall hear of them again as the printers of Gray's Poems . They spent their money too lavishly in the ...
... editions of the classics were very famous , some of them remarkable for their extremely minute size , but all exquisitely printed . We shall hear of them again as the printers of Gray's Poems . They spent their money too lavishly in the ...
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... edition with Bradshaw's notes ) . The nickname , " Jemmy Twitcher , " from the “ Beggar's Opera , " was originally given to Calcraft by Wilkes ( Walpole to Conway , May 1 , '63 ) , in an unpublished " North Briton " found among his ...
... edition with Bradshaw's notes ) . The nickname , " Jemmy Twitcher , " from the “ Beggar's Opera , " was originally given to Calcraft by Wilkes ( Walpole to Conway , May 1 , '63 ) , in an unpublished " North Briton " found among his ...
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... edition of his " Evening " : " Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene Or find some ruin ' midst its dreary dales . " " " And in the later form of the same poem adds , " the sheety lake " whose " last cold gleam " is reflected by ...
... edition of his " Evening " : " Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene Or find some ruin ' midst its dreary dales . " " " And in the later form of the same poem adds , " the sheety lake " whose " last cold gleam " is reflected by ...
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