Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... night last . Forgive me if the thought of what my poor Horace must feel , on that account , obliges me to have done in re- minding you that I am London , Aug. 22 , 1737 . Yours , & c . LETTER IX . MR . GRAY TO MR . WALPOLE . I was ...
... night last . Forgive me if the thought of what my poor Horace must feel , on that account , obliges me to have done in re- minding you that I am London , Aug. 22 , 1737 . Yours , & c . LETTER IX . MR . GRAY TO MR . WALPOLE . I was ...
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... is not the way : Next day go to dine at my Lord Holdernesse's ; there was the Abbé Prevôt , author of the Cleveland , and several other pieces much esteemed : the rest were English . At night we went to the Pandore ; a spectacle ( 47 )
... is not the way : Next day go to dine at my Lord Holdernesse's ; there was the Abbé Prevôt , author of the Cleveland , and several other pieces much esteemed : the rest were English . At night we went to the Pandore ; a spectacle ( 47 )
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With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Thomas Gray, William Mason. At night we went to the Pandore ; a spectacle lite- rally , for it is nothing but a beautiful piece of ma- chinery of three scenes . The first represents the chaos , and ...
With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Thomas Gray, William Mason. At night we went to the Pandore ; a spectacle lite- rally , for it is nothing but a beautiful piece of ma- chinery of three scenes . The first represents the chaos , and ...
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... night - cap , call for your jack - boots , and set out with me , last Saturday evening , for Versailles- and at eight o'clock passing through a road speckled with vines , and villas , and hares , and partridges , we arrive at the great ...
... night - cap , call for your jack - boots , and set out with me , last Saturday evening , for Versailles- and at eight o'clock passing through a road speckled with vines , and villas , and hares , and partridges , we arrive at the great ...
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... night ; all the characters , particularly Agrip- pina and Nero , done to perfection ; to - morrow Phædra and Hippolitus . We are making you a little bundle of petites pieces ; there is nothing in them , but they are acting at present ...
... night ; all the characters , particularly Agrip- pina and Nero , done to perfection ; to - morrow Phædra and Hippolitus . We are making you a little bundle of petites pieces ; there is nothing in them , but they are acting at present ...
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