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Page iii
... hexameters , of the sudden rising of Monte Nuovo near Puzzoli , and of the destruction which at- tended it • 28. To his FATHER . Uncertainty of the route he shall take in his return to England . Magnificence of the Italians in their ...
... hexameters , of the sudden rising of Monte Nuovo near Puzzoli , and of the destruction which at- tended it • 28. To his FATHER . Uncertainty of the route he shall take in his return to England . Magnificence of the Italians in their ...
Page iv
... 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 Chartreuse , where he wrote an Alcaic Ode , which concludes the Section Page 118 121 SECTION ...
... 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 Chartreuse , where he wrote an Alcaic Ode , which concludes the Section Page 118 121 SECTION ...
Page 14
... hexameters , as adula- tory verses of this kind , however well written , deserve not to be transmitted to posterity ; and , indeed , are usually buried , as they ought to be , in the trash with which they are surrounded . Every person ...
... hexameters , as adula- tory verses of this kind , however well written , deserve not to be transmitted to posterity ; and , indeed , are usually buried , as they ought to be , in the trash with which they are surrounded . Every person ...
Page 39
... accordingly his hexameters are , as far as modern ones can be , after the manner of Virgil : they move in the succession of his pauses and close with his elisions . they were my Horace and Tibullus - Non ita lo- D 2 ( 39 )
... accordingly his hexameters are , as far as modern ones can be , after the manner of Virgil : they move in the succession of his pauses and close with his elisions . they were my Horace and Tibullus - Non ita lo- D 2 ( 39 )
Page 121
... hexameters . Pray help me to the description of a mixed mode , and a little Epi- sode about Space . Mr. Walpole and Mr. Gray set out from Florence at the time specified in the foregoing Letter . When Mr. Gray left Venice , which he did ...
... hexameters . Pray help me to the description of a mixed mode , and a little Epi- sode about Space . Mr. Walpole and Mr. Gray set out from Florence at the time specified in the foregoing Letter . When Mr. Gray left Venice , which he did ...
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