Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 179
... kind of public places with two friends lately returned from abroad . The world itself has some attrac- tions in it to a solitary of six years standing : and agreeable well - meaning people of sense , ( thank heaven there are so few of ...
... kind of public places with two friends lately returned from abroad . The world itself has some attrac- tions in it to a solitary of six years standing : and agreeable well - meaning people of sense , ( thank heaven there are so few of ...
Page 182
... kind of frinds one would wish to meet in a fine summer's evening , if one wished to meet any at all . The heads and tails of the dialogues , published separate in 16mo , would make the sweetest reading in natiur for young gentlemen of ...
... kind of frinds one would wish to meet in a fine summer's evening , if one wished to meet any at all . The heads and tails of the dialogues , published separate in 16mo , would make the sweetest reading in natiur for young gentlemen of ...
Page 185
... kind , where so much de- pends upon the imagination ) ; and if those figures introduced with them a belief of such fables , as first gave them being , and dressed them out in their various attributes , it was natural then , and ( I ...
... kind , where so much de- pends upon the imagination ) ; and if those figures introduced with them a belief of such fables , as first gave them being , and dressed them out in their various attributes , it was natural then , and ( I ...
Page 191
... kind that ever appeared either in our own , or any language . I am not able to inform the reader how many essays he meant to write upon the subject ; nor do I believe that he had ever so far settled his plan as to determine that point ...
... kind that ever appeared either in our own , or any language . I am not able to inform the reader how many essays he meant to write upon the subject ; nor do I believe that he had ever so far settled his plan as to determine that point ...
Page 192
... kind of commentary at the bot- tom of the pages ; they will serve greatly to elu- cidate ( as far as they go ) the method of his rea- soning . ESSAY I. -Πόταγ ̓ ὦ ' γαθέ ; τὰν γὰρ ἀοιδὰν Οὔτι πω εἰς ̓Αΐδαν γε τὸν ἐκλελάθοντα φυλαξεῖς ...
... kind of commentary at the bot- tom of the pages ; they will serve greatly to elu- cidate ( as far as they go ) the method of his rea- soning . ESSAY I. -Πόταγ ̓ ὦ ' γαθέ ; τὰν γὰρ ἀοιδὰν Οὔτι πω εἰς ̓Αΐδαν γε τὸν ἐκλελάθοντα φυλαξεῖς ...
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