Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 8
... published , and that the letters that pass between particu- lar friends ( if they are written as they ought to be ) can scarce ever be fit to see the light . " What ! not when they express the native tenderness and innocent gaiety of a ...
... published , and that the letters that pass between particu- lar friends ( if they are written as they ought to be ) can scarce ever be fit to see the light . " What ! not when they express the native tenderness and innocent gaiety of a ...
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... Published in the Cambridge Collection of verses on the Prince of Wales's marriage . I have not thought it necessary to insert these hexameters , as adula- tory verses of this kind , however well written , deserve not to be transmitted ...
... Published in the Cambridge Collection of verses on the Prince of Wales's marriage . I have not thought it necessary to insert these hexameters , as adula- tory verses of this kind , however well written , deserve not to be transmitted ...
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... , but perhaps he meant to ridicule the affected manner of Mrs. Rowe's Letters of the Dead to the Living ; a book which was , I believe , published about this time . you may have contracted in the other , but pray ( 17 )
... , but perhaps he meant to ridicule the affected manner of Mrs. Rowe's Letters of the Dead to the Living ; a book which was , I believe , published about this time . you may have contracted in the other , but pray ( 17 )
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... publish the principal part of Mr. Gray's correspondence with Mr. West , very obligingly communicated to me the letters which he had also received from Mr. Gray at the same period . From this collection I have selected such as I thought ...
... publish the principal part of Mr. Gray's correspondence with Mr. West , very obligingly communicated to me the letters which he had also received from Mr. Gray at the same period . From this collection I have selected such as I thought ...
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... published a severe edict against schismatical congregations , and created half a dozen new little procterlings to see its orders executed , being under mighty apprehensions lest Henley * and his gilt tub should come to the fair and ...
... published a severe edict against schismatical congregations , and created half a dozen new little procterlings to see its orders executed , being under mighty apprehensions lest Henley * and his gilt tub should come to the fair and ...
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