Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... Duke of Modena at Tivoli . The Anio . Its cascade . Situation of the town . Villas of Horace and Mecenas , and other remains of antiquity . Modern aqueducts . A grand Roman ball 21. To Mr. WEST . An Alcaic Ode . Ludicrous allusion to ...
... Duke of Modena at Tivoli . The Anio . Its cascade . Situation of the town . Villas of Horace and Mecenas , and other remains of antiquity . Modern aqueducts . A grand Roman ball 21. To Mr. WEST . An Alcaic Ode . Ludicrous allusion to ...
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... Duke of Newcastle's Installation at Cambridge . On the Ode then performed , and more concerning the Author of it · 202 • 204 12. To his MOTHER . Consolatory on the death of her sister 13. To Dr. WHARTON . Wishes to be able to pay him a ...
... Duke of Newcastle's Installation at Cambridge . On the Ode then performed , and more concerning the Author of it · 202 • 204 12. To his MOTHER . Consolatory on the death of her sister 13. To Dr. WHARTON . Wishes to be able to pay him a ...
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... Duke of GRAFTON . Thanking him for his Professorship . 59. To Mr. NICHOLLS . ACCount of Mr. Brocket's death , and of his being made his successor in the Professorship 60. To Mr. BEATTIE . On the same subject SECTION V. Enumeration of ...
... Duke of GRAFTON . Thanking him for his Professorship . 59. To Mr. NICHOLLS . ACCount of Mr. Brocket's death , and of his being made his successor in the Professorship 60. To Mr. BEATTIE . On the same subject SECTION V. Enumeration of ...
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... Duke of Marlborough , he would forget that he was a general . I shall avoid a like fault . I will promise my I will promise my reader that he shall , in the following pages , seldom behold Mr. Gray in any other light than that of a ...
... Duke of Marlborough , he would forget that he was a general . I shall avoid a like fault . I will promise my I will promise my reader that he shall , in the following pages , seldom behold Mr. Gray in any other light than that of a ...
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... Duke of Bourbon's palace , which we only beheld as we passed ; broke down at Lusarche ; stopt at St. Denis , saw all the beautiful monuments of the kings of France , and the vast treasures of the abbey , rubies and emeralds as big as ...
... Duke of Bourbon's palace , which we only beheld as we passed ; broke down at Lusarche ; stopt at St. Denis , saw all the beautiful monuments of the kings of France , and the vast treasures of the abbey , rubies and emeralds as big as ...
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