The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1912 - Poets, English |
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... The mere Titles of such things are fatally sufficient to us , " says Carlyle . Perhaps we owe the description of the young dilettante's " dusky skin , very white linen Paradisi . For my part I am ravished ( for 4 GRAY'S LETTERS .
... The mere Titles of such things are fatally sufficient to us , " says Carlyle . Perhaps we owe the description of the young dilettante's " dusky skin , very white linen Paradisi . For my part I am ravished ( for 4 GRAY'S LETTERS .
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... thing is repeated in the north transept , but this is only an imitation of the other , done for the sake of regularity , for this part of the build- ing is no older than Archbishop Romaine , who came to the see in 1285 , and died 1296 ...
... thing is repeated in the north transept , but this is only an imitation of the other , done for the sake of regularity , for this part of the build- ing is no older than Archbishop Romaine , who came to the see in 1285 , and died 1296 ...
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... due cose- relle " ; what these " little things " were we shall see later . In the same letter he tells him that he intends to be the herald of his for them , I think , till one has read 10 GRAY'S LETTERS . MASON TO GRAY June 28th, 1763.
... due cose- relle " ; what these " little things " were we shall see later . In the same letter he tells him that he intends to be the herald of his for them , I think , till one has read 10 GRAY'S LETTERS . MASON TO GRAY June 28th, 1763.
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... thing of this value for a thing not worth three halfpence ? " " What , " says he , " a portrait of Mr. Gray done by Mr. Mason of no value ! " & c . & c . In short he pressed me to accept it till there was hardly any such thing as ...
... thing of this value for a thing not worth three halfpence ? " " What , " says he , " a portrait of Mr. Gray done by Mr. Mason of no value ! " & c . & c . In short he pressed me to accept it till there was hardly any such thing as ...
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... thing ' than you have yours , though they were sent by the Beverley , Captain Allen , I have returned no answer yet ; but I must soon , and that in plain English , and so should you too . In the meantime I borrowed and read them . That ...
... thing ' than you have yours , though they were sent by the Beverley , Captain Allen , I have returned no answer yet ; but I must soon , and that in plain English , and so should you too . In the meantime I borrowed and read them . That ...
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