The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason1820 |
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Page 79
... eat mustard and sugar with a dish of crows gizzards : Persons of very high rank , and withal very good sense , will only feel the pathos of this exclamation . secondly , how we passed the famous plains Quà Trebie ( 79 )
... eat mustard and sugar with a dish of crows gizzards : Persons of very high rank , and withal very good sense , will only feel the pathos of this exclamation . secondly , how we passed the famous plains Quà Trebie ( 79 )
Page 103
... feeling , manly sense , and epistolary ease . If the reader should think as highly of it as I do , let me remind him that the writer was not now quite four and twenty years old . LETTER XXV . MR . GRAY TO MR . WEST II 2 ( 103 )
... feeling , manly sense , and epistolary ease . If the reader should think as highly of it as I do , let me remind him that the writer was not now quite four and twenty years old . LETTER XXV . MR . GRAY TO MR . WEST II 2 ( 103 )
Page 118
... feel , that you are the principal pleasure I have to hope for in my own country . Try at least to make me imagine myself not indifferent to you ; for I must own I have the vanity of desiring to be esteemed by somebody , and would choose ...
... feel , that you are the principal pleasure I have to hope for in my own country . Try at least to make me imagine myself not indifferent to you ; for I must own I have the vanity of desiring to be esteemed by somebody , and would choose ...
Page 119
Thomas Gray. what others feel , and indulgence for their faults or weaknesses , a love of truth , and detestation of every thing else . Then you are to deduct a little impertinence , a little laughter , a great deal of pride , and some ...
Thomas Gray. what others feel , and indulgence for their faults or weaknesses , a love of truth , and detestation of every thing else . Then you are to deduct a little impertinence , a little laughter , a great deal of pride , and some ...
Page 135
Thomas Gray. Of rage , and thinks to quench the fire it feels not . Say'st thou I must be cautious , must be silent , And tremble at the phantom I have rais'd ? Carry to him thy timid counsels . He : Perchance may heed ' em tell him too ...
Thomas Gray. Of rage , and thinks to quench the fire it feels not . Say'st thou I must be cautious , must be silent , And tremble at the phantom I have rais'd ? Carry to him thy timid counsels . He : Perchance may heed ' em tell him too ...
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