Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 38
... admired as the Via Appia : there are , at present , several rivulets to be crossed , and which serve to enliven the view all around . The country is exceeding fruitful in ravens and such black cattle ; but , not to tire you with my ...
... admired as the Via Appia : there are , at present , several rivulets to be crossed , and which serve to enliven the view all around . The country is exceeding fruitful in ravens and such black cattle ; but , not to tire you with my ...
Page 39
... admiration : I want you to learn too , that I may know your opinion of him ; nothing can be easier than that language to any one who knows Latin and French already , and there are few so copious and expressive . " In the same letter he ...
... admiration : I want you to learn too , that I may know your opinion of him ; nothing can be easier than that language to any one who knows Latin and French already , and there are few so copious and expressive . " In the same letter he ...
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... admired in England , and many ( whom * Our Author's sentiments here seem to correspond entirely with those which J. J. Rousseau afterwards published in his famous Lettre sur la Musique Fran- çoise . In a French letter also , which Mr ...
... admired in England , and many ( whom * Our Author's sentiments here seem to correspond entirely with those which J. J. Rousseau afterwards published in his famous Lettre sur la Musique Fran- çoise . In a French letter also , which Mr ...
Page 127
... admire in him above all this , is his detestation of tyranny , and the high spirit of liberty that every now and ... admired for saying much in a little compass . He speaks of Domitian , who upon seeing the last will of that general ...
... admire in him above all this , is his detestation of tyranny , and the high spirit of liberty that every now and ... admired for saying much in a little compass . He speaks of Domitian , who upon seeing the last will of that general ...
Page 147
... admired it greatly , and thought that it breathed the very spirit of Pindar , yet I suspected it would by no means hit the public taste . ” Finding afterwards that he did not proceed in finishing it , I often expostulated with him on ...
... admired it greatly , and thought that it breathed the very spirit of Pindar , yet I suspected it would by no means hit the public taste . ” Finding afterwards that he did not proceed in finishing it , I often expostulated with him on ...
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