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... Italy and Greece 17. To his MOTHER . Death of the Pope . Intended departure for Rome . First and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring 18. To his MOTHER . Cathedral of Sienna . Viterbo . Distant sight of Rome . The Tiber . Entrance ...
... Italy and Greece 17. To his MOTHER . Death of the Pope . Intended departure for Rome . First and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring 18. To his MOTHER . Cathedral of Sienna . Viterbo . Distant sight of Rome . The Tiber . Entrance ...
Page iv
... Italian fair and an English one . A farewell to Florence and its prospects , in Latin hexameters . Imitation , in the same language , of an Italian sonnet Account of Mr. Gray's return home , and of his second visit to the Grande ...
... Italian fair and an English one . A farewell to Florence and its prospects , in Latin hexameters . Imitation , in the same language , of an Italian sonnet Account of Mr. Gray's return home , and of his second visit to the Grande ...
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... Italian till about a year and a half before he translated this scene ; and I find amongst his papers an English trans- lation of part of the fourth Canto of Tasso's Gierusalemma Liberata , done pre- viously to this , which has great ...
... Italian till about a year and a half before he translated this scene ; and I find amongst his papers an English trans- lation of part of the fourth Canto of Tasso's Gierusalemma Liberata , done pre- viously to this , which has great ...
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... Italy , my province will be chiefly that of an Editor ; and my only care to se- lect , from a large collection of letters written to his parents and to his friend Mr. West , those parts which , I imagine , will be most likely either to ...
... Italy , my province will be chiefly that of an Editor ; and my only care to se- lect , from a large collection of letters written to his parents and to his friend Mr. West , those parts which , I imagine , will be most likely either to ...
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... Italy . LETTER I. MR . GRAY TO HIS MOTHER . Amiens , April 1 , N. S. 1739 . As we made but a very short journey to- day , and came to our inn.early , I sit down to give you some account of our expedition . On the 29th , ( according to ...
... Italy . LETTER I. MR . GRAY TO HIS MOTHER . Amiens , April 1 , N. S. 1739 . As we made but a very short journey to- day , and came to our inn.early , I sit down to give you some account of our expedition . On the 29th , ( according to ...
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