The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. MasonJ.F. Dove, 1820 |
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Page 92
... matter , I will find spectacles . I have more time than I thought , and I will em- ploy it in telling you about a ball that we were at the other evening . Figure to yourself a Roman villa ; all its little apartments thrown open , and ...
... matter , I will find spectacles . I have more time than I thought , and I will em- ploy it in telling you about a ball that we were at the other evening . Figure to yourself a Roman villa ; all its little apartments thrown open , and ...
Page 104
... matter : I only meant to ask , Why did you change your lodging ? Was the air bad , or the situation melancholy ? If so , you are quite in the right . Only , is it not putting yourself a little out of the way of a people , with whom it ...
... matter : I only meant to ask , Why did you change your lodging ? Was the air bad , or the situation melancholy ? If so , you are quite in the right . Only , is it not putting yourself a little out of the way of a people , with whom it ...
Page 105
... matter for curiosity and reflection . It is strange if , among all that huge mass of words , there be not some- what intermixed for thought . Laws have been the result of long deliberation , and that not of dull men , but the contrary ...
... matter for curiosity and reflection . It is strange if , among all that huge mass of words , there be not some- what intermixed for thought . Laws have been the result of long deliberation , and that not of dull men , but the contrary ...
Page 108
... matter . The new pope is called Benedict XIV . being created cardinal by Bene- dict XIII . the last pope but one . His name is Lambertini , a noble Bolognese , and archbishop of that city . When I was first there , I remember to have ...
... matter . The new pope is called Benedict XIV . being created cardinal by Bene- dict XIII . the last pope but one . His name is Lambertini , a noble Bolognese , and archbishop of that city . When I was first there , I remember to have ...
Page 137
... matter What ; so ' t be strange , and dreadful . - Sorceries , Assassinations , poisonings - the deeper My guilt , the blacker his ingratitude . And you , ye manes of ambition's victims , Enshrined Claudius , with the pitied ghosts Of ...
... matter What ; so ' t be strange , and dreadful . - Sorceries , Assassinations , poisonings - the deeper My guilt , the blacker his ingratitude . And you , ye manes of ambition's victims , Enshrined Claudius , with the pitied ghosts Of ...
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