The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1912 - Poets, English |
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... looks in earnest , and as if you could live at Aston , which is not true ; but that is not my affair . 4 I have got a mass of Pergolesi , ' which is all divinity ; but it was lent me , or you should have it by all means . Send for six ...
... looks in earnest , and as if you could live at Aston , which is not true ; but that is not my affair . 4 I have got a mass of Pergolesi , ' which is all divinity ; but it was lent me , or you should have it by all means . Send for six ...
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... looks and their noise made it evident , they did not come thither to hear ; and on similar occasions I have known candles lighted , broken bottles , and pen knives flung on the stage , the benches torn up , the scenes hurried into the ...
... looks and their noise made it evident , they did not come thither to hear ; and on similar occasions I have known candles lighted , broken bottles , and pen knives flung on the stage , the benches torn up , the scenes hurried into the ...
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... looks as if it would eat one , else I should have gone to Lymington and Christchurch , and called upon Mr. Mans- field in the New Forest , to see the bow that killed William Rufus , which he pretends to possess . Say not a word of ...
... looks as if it would eat one , else I should have gone to Lymington and Christchurch , and called upon Mr. Mans- field in the New Forest , to see the bow that killed William Rufus , which he pretends to possess . Say not a word of ...
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... look'd upon it . the climate is remarkably mild , even in Octob : and November . no snow has been seen to lie there for these 30 years past , the myrtles grow in the ground against the houses , and Guernsey - Lillies bloom in every ...
... look'd upon it . the climate is remarkably mild , even in Octob : and November . no snow has been seen to lie there for these 30 years past , the myrtles grow in the ground against the houses , and Guernsey - Lillies bloom in every ...
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... ( look in Cluver's Italy ) , catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno , ex- patiate to the very toe of the continent , perhaps strike over the Faro of Messina , and having measured the gigantic columns of Girgenti , and the ...
... ( look in Cluver's Italy ) , catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno , ex- patiate to the very toe of the continent , perhaps strike over the Faro of Messina , and having measured the gigantic columns of Girgenti , and the ...
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