 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1895 - 530 pages
...letter which he wrote to Warton on the occasion is as follows : — PEMBROKE HALL, i$th April 1770. or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many...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... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - Comparative literature - 1909 - 784 pages
...Hall, Cambridge). [Scheme for a. history of English poetry] Sir, our friend, Dr. Hurd,4 . . . long ago desired me, in your name, to communicate any fragments...design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry. ... A sketch of the division or arrangement of the subject I venture to transcribe. . . . Introduction.... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1911 - 524 pages
...occasion is as follows : — PEMBROKE HALL, iyh April 1770. Sir — Our friend Dr. Hurd having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments...you may well think me rude or negligent, when you sec me hesitating for so many months before 1 comply with your request, and yet, believe me, few of... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poets, English - 1912 - 482 pages
...CCCLXII. To Thomas Warton.1 Pembroke Hall, April 15, 1770. SIR — Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in your name to communicate any fragments...Poetry," you may well think me rude or negligent, 1 M it ford tells us that this letter was in the possession of Al. Chalmers, Esq., and refers us to... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1912 - 480 pages
...CCCLXII. To Thomas Warton.1 Pembroke Hall, April 15, 1770. SIB— 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,2 you may well think me rude or negligent, 1 Mitford tells us that this letter was in the possession... | |
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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... 
