The Poems and Letters of Thomas GrayR. Priestley, 1820 - 537 pages |
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Page 20
... imagine my taste was any rule for yours ; for which reason my letters are shorter * Mr. Walpole , on my informing him that it was my intention to publish the principal part of Mr. Gray's correspondence with Mr. West , very obligingly ...
... imagine my taste was any rule for yours ; for which reason my letters are shorter * Mr. Walpole , on my informing him that it was my intention to publish the principal part of Mr. Gray's correspondence with Mr. West , very obligingly ...
Page 28
... imagine , in no very agreeable situation ; for my part I am under the misfortune of having nothing to do , but it is a misfortune which , thank my stars , I can pretty well bear . You are in a confusion of wine , and roaring , and ...
... imagine , in no very agreeable situation ; for my part I am under the misfortune of having nothing to do , but it is a misfortune which , thank my stars , I can pretty well bear . You are in a confusion of wine , and roaring , and ...
Page 29
... imagine how miserably my time passes away . My health and nerves and spirits are , thank my stars , the very worst , I think , in Oxford . Four - and - twenty hours of pure unalloyed * A favourite object of Tory satire at the time ...
... imagine how miserably my time passes away . My health and nerves and spirits are , thank my stars , the very worst , I think , in Oxford . Four - and - twenty hours of pure unalloyed * A favourite object of Tory satire at the time ...
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... imagine , will be most likely either to in- form or amuse the reader . The multiplicity of accounts , published both before and after the time when these letters were written , of those very places which Mr. Gray describes , will ...
... imagine , will be most likely either to in- form or amuse the reader . The multiplicity of accounts , published both before and after the time when these letters were written , of those very places which Mr. Gray describes , will ...
Page 48
... Imagine to your- self for the drama four acts * entirely unconnected with each other , each founded on some little hist- ory , skilfully taken out of an ancient author , e . g . Ovid's Metamorphoses , & c . and with great address ...
... Imagine to your- self for the drama four acts * entirely unconnected with each other , each founded on some little hist- ory , skilfully taken out of an ancient author , e . g . Ovid's Metamorphoses , & c . and with great address ...
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