Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... Cambridge Collection of Verses on the marriage of the Prince of Wales Preface of the Editor to the subsequent letter 4. To Mr. WEST . On the little encouragement which he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge . His aversion to ...
... Cambridge Collection of Verses on the marriage of the Prince of Wales Preface of the Editor to the subsequent letter 4. To Mr. WEST . On the little encouragement which he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge . His aversion to ...
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... Cambridge , and takes a degree in civil law ; during that interval he corresponds with Mr. West LETTER · 1. From Mr. WEST . His spirits not as yet improved by country air . Has begun to read Tacitus , but does not relish him 2. To Mr ...
... Cambridge , and takes a degree in civil law ; during that interval he corresponds with Mr. West LETTER · 1. From Mr. WEST . His spirits not as yet improved by country air . Has begun to read Tacitus , but does not relish him 2. To Mr ...
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... Cambridge his principal residence for the rest of his life . The Editor of these Memoirs becomes acquainted with him in the year 1747. He corresponds with Dr. Wharton and several other persons till the year 1768 , when he is appointed ...
... Cambridge his principal residence for the rest of his life . The Editor of these Memoirs becomes acquainted with him in the year 1747. He corresponds with Dr. Wharton and several other persons till the year 1768 , when he is appointed ...
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... Cambridge Doctor . More of the Erse Frag- • 278 36. To Dr. WHARTON . On employment . Gardening . Character of Froissart . King of Prussia's Poems . Tristram Shandy 37. To Mr. STONHEWER . the Erse Fragments . On the latter volumes of M ...
... Cambridge Doctor . More of the Erse Frag- • 278 36. To Dr. WHARTON . On employment . Gardening . Character of Froissart . King of Prussia's Poems . Tristram Shandy 37. To Mr. STONHEWER . the Erse Fragments . On the latter volumes of M ...
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... Cambridge ; to which place Mr. Gray removed , and was there admitted a pensioner in the year 1734. While at school , he contracted a friendship with Mr. Horace Walpole and Mr. Richard West : the former of these appears , at present ...
... Cambridge ; to which place Mr. Gray removed , and was there admitted a pensioner in the year 1734. While at school , he contracted a friendship with Mr. Horace Walpole and Mr. Richard West : the former of these appears , at present ...
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