Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 58
... to its en- virons , which are beautiful beyond expression ; it is surrounded with mountains , and those mountains all bedroped and bespeckled with houses , gardens , and plantations of the rich Bourgeois , who have from ( 58 )
... to its en- virons , which are beautiful beyond expression ; it is surrounded with mountains , and those mountains all bedroped and bespeckled with houses , gardens , and plantations of the rich Bourgeois , who have from ( 58 )
Page 70
... expression . In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation , that there was no restraining : not a precipice , not a torrent , not a cliff , but is pregnant with ...
... expression . In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation , that there was no restraining : not a precipice , not a torrent , not a cliff , but is pregnant with ...
Page 122
... with such an originality of expression , that one can hardly lament he did not honour his own language by making it the vehicle of this noble imagery and pathetic sentiment . SECTION III . WHEN Mr. Gray returned from abroad , ( 122 )
... with such an originality of expression , that one can hardly lament he did not honour his own language by making it the vehicle of this noble imagery and pathetic sentiment . SECTION III . WHEN Mr. Gray returned from abroad , ( 122 )
Page 142
... expressions from the former . Let me give you some instances from Dryden , whom every body reckons a great master of our poetical tongue . -Full of museful mopings - unlike the trim of love a pleasant beverage - a roundelay of love ...
... expressions from the former . Let me give you some instances from Dryden , whom every body reckons a great master of our poetical tongue . -Full of museful mopings - unlike the trim of love a pleasant beverage - a roundelay of love ...
Page 143
... expressions may be these - silken son of dalliance . -drowsier pretensions - wrinkled beldams - arched the hearer's brow and riveted his eyes in fearful extasy . These are easily altered or omitted : and indeed if the thoughts be wrong ...
... expressions may be these - silken son of dalliance . -drowsier pretensions - wrinkled beldams - arched the hearer's brow and riveted his eyes in fearful extasy . These are easily altered or omitted : and indeed if the thoughts be wrong ...
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