The Works of Thomas Gray: LettersMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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Page 125
... expect to have a letter from you when I come to town , at your lodg- ings . Adieu , S " , I am sincerely yours , Stoke , Thursday , [ post - mark 16th Nov. ] T. G. [ endorsement 1744 or 1745. ] LII . TO JOHN CHUTE - FRAGMENT . Jews ...
... expect to have a letter from you when I come to town , at your lodg- ings . Adieu , S " , I am sincerely yours , Stoke , Thursday , [ post - mark 16th Nov. ] T. G. [ endorsement 1744 or 1745. ] LII . TO JOHN CHUTE - FRAGMENT . Jews ...
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... expect . You remember a paper in the Museum on Message - Cards which he told me was Fielding's , and asked my opinion about it was his own , and so was the Adver- tisement on Good Breeding , that made us laugh so . 1 See Walpole's ...
... expect . You remember a paper in the Museum on Message - Cards which he told me was Fielding's , and asked my opinion about it was his own , and so was the Adver- tisement on Good Breeding , that made us laugh so . 1 See Walpole's ...
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... expect . This and a few Autumnal verses are my entertainments during the fall of the leaf . Nothwithstanding which my time lies heavy on my hands , and I want to be at home again . I have just received a visit from A [ shton ] , he ...
... expect . This and a few Autumnal verses are my entertainments during the fall of the leaf . Nothwithstanding which my time lies heavy on my hands , and I want to be at home again . I have just received a visit from A [ shton ] , he ...
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... expect , have prevailed upon me to like it far better than I did in manuscript ; for I think it is not the very genteel deportment of Polymetis , nor the lively wit of Mysagetes , that have at all corrupted me . 1 The admirable ...
... expect , have prevailed upon me to like it far better than I did in manuscript ; for I think it is not the very genteel deportment of Polymetis , nor the lively wit of Mysagetes , that have at all corrupted me . 1 The admirable ...
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... expect good news . Your opinion of Diodorus is doubtless right ; but there are things in him very curious , got out of better authors , now lost . Do you remember the Egyptian His- tory , and particularly the account of the gold - mines ...
... expect good news . Your opinion of Diodorus is doubtless right ; but there are things in him very curious , got out of better authors , now lost . Do you remember the Egyptian His- tory , and particularly the account of the gold - mines ...
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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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Page 268 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro...
Page 5 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 271 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud...
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...
Page 346 - The office itself has always humbled the professor hitherto (even in an age when kings were somebody), if he were a poor writer by making him more conspicuous, and if he were a good one by setting him at war with the little fry of his own profession, for there are poets little enough to envy even a poet-laureat.
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...
Page 313 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
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.) — Stay, oh stay!