Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... strongest sense of obligation and respect ) is the sincere and constant wish of , SIR , Your ever grateful humble Servant , St. John's Square , Jan. 1 , 1820 . THE PRINTER . CONTENTS . SECTION I. INTRODUCTION . Mr. GRAY's birth .
... strongest sense of obligation and respect ) is the sincere and constant wish of , SIR , Your ever grateful humble Servant , St. John's Square , Jan. 1 , 1820 . THE PRINTER . CONTENTS . SECTION I. INTRODUCTION . Mr. GRAY's birth .
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... wishes to accompany his friend . His retired life in London . Address to his Lyre , in Latin Sapphics , on the prospect of Mr. Gray's return • 8. To his MOTHER . Lyons . Excursion to the Grande Chartreuse . So- lemn and romantic ...
... wishes to accompany his friend . His retired life in London . Address to his Lyre , in Latin Sapphics , on the prospect of Mr. Gray's return • 8. To his MOTHER . Lyons . Excursion to the Grande Chartreuse . So- lemn and romantic ...
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... wishes to see 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 ...
... wishes to see 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 ...
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... Wishes to be able to pay him a visit at Durham . On Dr. Middleton's death . Some account of the first volumes of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle • Narrative of the incident which led Mr. Gray to write his Long Story . That poem inserted ...
... Wishes to be able to pay him a visit at Durham . On Dr. Middleton's death . Some account of the first volumes of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle • Narrative of the incident which led Mr. Gray to write his Long Story . That poem inserted ...
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... wish he had been less scrupulously de- licate , and lament that the letters in question are not now extant . Of one thing I am fully confident that , had this been the case , the judicious Dr. Hurd would have found his critical labour ...
... wish he had been less scrupulously de- licate , and lament that the letters in question are not now extant . Of one thing I am fully confident that , had this been the case , the judicious Dr. Hurd would have found his critical labour ...
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