 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...sent the following letter: " Sir, 15th April, 1770, Pembroke Hall. " Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments,...may well think me rude or negligent, when you. see Ģie besitating for so many months before I comply with your request, and yet (believe me) few of your... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...his Life of 2\ Warton, v. British Poets, vol. xviii; p. 80. Sir, Our friend, Dr. Kurd, having long ago desired me, in your name to communicate any fragments...a design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry,f you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months, before... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...v. British Poets, vol. xviii. p. 80. Sir, Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in yonr name to communicate any fragments or sketches of a...design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry. t you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months, before 1... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...in his own way.'* • t Dryden first called Donne metaphysical. See Warton'fl Pope, vol. iv. p. 252. design I once had to give a History of English Poetry,*...comply with your request; and yet, believe me, few of y^ur friends have been better pleased than I, to find this subjeet (surely neither unentertaining nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...Life of T. Warton, v. Brieish Poets, vol. xviii. p. 80. Sir, — Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in your name, to communicate any fragments or sketches of a * Perhaps Pope alluded to Suckling's verses to Davenant: — "Thou hast redeem'd us, Will: — and... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...Life of T. Warton, v. British Poets, vol. xviii. p. 80. Sir, — Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in your name, to communicate any fragments or sketches of a * Perhaps Pope alluded to Suckling's verses to Davenant: — " Thou hast redeem'd us, Will : — and... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1866 - 360 pages
...See his Life of T. Warton, v. Biithh Poets, vol. xviii. p. 80. Sir, Our friend, Dr. Kurd, having long ago desired me, in your name to communicate any fragments...design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry, t you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months, before 1... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 432 pages
...CLXV. — TO THOMAS WARTON. Pembroke Hall, April 15, 1770. SIR — Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in your name to communicate any fragments...a design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry,1 you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months, before... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1885 - 356 pages
...his Life of T. Warton, v. British Poets, vol. xviii. p. 80. Sir, Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in your name to communicate any fragments...design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry ,f you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months, before 1... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1895 - 534 pages
...Our friend Dr. Hurd having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments or sketehes of a design I once had to give a History of English...pleased than I to find this subject (surely neither uninteresting nor unuseful) had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice : few have felt a higher... | |
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Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments, or sketches of a design I once had to give a history of English poetry, you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months... 
