Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 24
... idea , Nor storms nor comets , & c . justly perceiving that the elegiac turn of his epistle would not admit so ludicrous a thought , as it was in its place in Mr. Pope's familiar letter ; so that we see , young as he was , he had ...
... idea , Nor storms nor comets , & c . justly perceiving that the elegiac turn of his epistle would not admit so ludicrous a thought , as it was in its place in Mr. Pope's familiar letter ; so that we see , young as he was , he had ...
Page 118
... idea , two years of age , a reasonable quantity of dull- ness , a great deal of silence , and something that rather resembles , than is , thinking ; a confused notion of many strange and fine things that have swum before my eyes for ...
... idea , two years of age , a reasonable quantity of dull- ness , a great deal of silence , and something that rather resembles , than is , thinking ; a confused notion of many strange and fine things that have swum before my eyes for ...
Page 130
... idea of a plot and under - plot , I shall here unite ; as it will tend to shew that the action itself was possest of sufficient unity . The drama opens with the indignation of Agrip- pina , at receiving her son's orders from Anicetus to ...
... idea of a plot and under - plot , I shall here unite ; as it will tend to shew that the action itself was possest of sufficient unity . The drama opens with the indignation of Agrip- pina , at receiving her son's orders from Anicetus to ...
Page 144
... as yet , any just idea of the speeches in regard to their length or shortness ? The connexion and symmetry of such little parts with one another must naturally escape me , as not having the plan of the whole in my head ; ( 144 )
... as yet , any just idea of the speeches in regard to their length or shortness ? The connexion and symmetry of such little parts with one another must naturally escape me , as not having the plan of the whole in my head ; ( 144 )
Page 160
... ideas . Unde Animus scire incipiat- The 2d . On the distribution of these ideas in the memory . quibus inchoet orsa Principiis seriem rerum , tenuemque catenam Mnemosyne The 3d . On the province of reason and its dual improvement ...
... ideas . Unde Animus scire incipiat- The 2d . On the distribution of these ideas in the memory . quibus inchoet orsa Principiis seriem rerum , tenuemque catenam Mnemosyne The 3d . On the province of reason and its dual improvement ...
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