Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... leaving school , and going to the University LETTER 1. From Mr. WEST . Complains of his friend's silence . Page · 5 2. To Mr. WEST . Answer to the former . A translation of some lines from Statius 10 . 11 3. From Mr. WEST . Approbation ...
... leaving school , and going to the University LETTER 1. From Mr. WEST . Complains of his friend's silence . Page · 5 2. To Mr. WEST . Answer to the former . A translation of some lines from Statius 10 . 11 3. From Mr. WEST . Approbation ...
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... leaving the University , and removing to the Temple · 14. To Mr. WEST . A Sapphic Ode , occasioned by the preceding letter , with a Latin postscript , concluding with an Alcaic fragment 15. From Mr. WEST . Thanks for his Ode , & c . His ...
... leaving the University , and removing to the Temple · 14. To Mr. WEST . A Sapphic Ode , occasioned by the preceding letter , with a Latin postscript , concluding with an Alcaic fragment 15. From Mr. WEST . Thanks for his Ode , & c . His ...
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... leaving school to the death of the accomplished youth in question . His father was Lord Chancellor of Ireland . His grandfather , by the mother , the famous Bishop Burnet . He removed from Eton to Oxford , about the same time that Mr ...
... leaving school to the death of the accomplished youth in question . His father was Lord Chancellor of Ireland . His grandfather , by the mother , the famous Bishop Burnet . He removed from Eton to Oxford , about the same time that Mr ...
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... leave college , * and rejoice much you carry no degrees with you : for I would not have had You dignified , and I ... leaving this dismal land of bondage , and which way are you turning your face ? Your friends , indeed , may be happy in ...
... leave college , * and rejoice much you carry no degrees with you : for I would not have had You dignified , and I ... leaving this dismal land of bondage , and which way are you turning your face ? Your friends , indeed , may be happy in ...
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... leave to say , I find no physic comparable to your letters . If , as it is said in Ecclesiasticus , Friendship be the physic of the mind , " prescribe to me , dear Gray , as often and as much as you think proper , I shall be a most ...
... leave to say , I find no physic comparable to your letters . If , as it is said in Ecclesiasticus , Friendship be the physic of the mind , " prescribe to me , dear Gray , as often and as much as you think proper , I shall be a most ...
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