Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... least at your frequent blaming my indolence , it ought rather to be called ingratitude , and I am obliged to your goodness for softening so harsh an appel- lation . When we meet it will , however , be my greatest of pleasures to know ...
... least at your frequent blaming my indolence , it ought rather to be called ingratitude , and I am obliged to your goodness for softening so harsh an appel- lation . When we meet it will , however , be my greatest of pleasures to know ...
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... least for our sakes , and do not be so soon weary of this little world : I do not know what * refined friendships * This thought is very juvenile , but perhaps he meant to ridicule the affected manner of Mrs. Rowe's Letters of the Dead ...
... least for our sakes , and do not be so soon weary of this little world : I do not know what * refined friendships * This thought is very juvenile , but perhaps he meant to ridicule the affected manner of Mrs. Rowe's Letters of the Dead ...
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... amidst all this is , that I have , at the distance of half a mile , through a green lane , a forest ( the vulgar call it a common ) all my own , * At Burnham in Buckinghamshire . He at least as good as so , for I spy ( 26 )
... amidst all this is , that I have , at the distance of half a mile , through a green lane , a forest ( the vulgar call it a common ) all my own , * At Burnham in Buckinghamshire . He at least as good as so , for I spy ( 26 )
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With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Thomas Gray, William Mason. at least as good as so , for I spy no human thing in it but myself . It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains , it is true , that do not as- cend much ...
With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Thomas Gray, William Mason. at least as good as so , for I spy no human thing in it but myself . It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains , it is true , that do not as- cend much ...
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... least I persuade myself so when I look at him , and think of Isabella and Oroonoko . I shall be in town in about three weeks . Adieu . September , 1737 . LETTER X. MR . GRAY TO MR . WALPOLE . * I SYMPATHIZE with you in the sufferings ...
... least I persuade myself so when I look at him , and think of Isabella and Oroonoko . I shall be in town in about three weeks . Adieu . September , 1737 . LETTER X. MR . GRAY TO MR . WALPOLE . * I SYMPATHIZE with you in the sufferings ...
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