Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 103
... mind , which Mr. West endeavours to conceal by an unusual carelessness of manner ) is chiefly inserted to introduce the answer to it ; which appears to me to be replete with delicate feeling , manly sense , and epistolary ease . If the ...
... mind , which Mr. West endeavours to conceal by an unusual carelessness of manner ) is chiefly inserted to introduce the answer to it ; which appears to me to be replete with delicate feeling , manly sense , and epistolary ease . If the ...
Page 106
... mind to be of any consequence among them : nay , he must not refuse being in a certain degree even dependent upon some men who already are So. If he has the good fortune to light on such as will make no ill use of his humility , there ...
... mind to be of any consequence among them : nay , he must not refuse being in a certain degree even dependent upon some men who already are So. If he has the good fortune to light on such as will make no ill use of his humility , there ...
Page 116
... minds of the populace , the government has thought fit to bring into the city in a solemn manner , and at a great expense , a famous statue of the Virgin , called the Madonna dell ' Impruneta , from the place of her residence , which is ...
... minds of the populace , the government has thought fit to bring into the city in a solemn manner , and at a great expense , a famous statue of the Virgin , called the Madonna dell ' Impruneta , from the place of her residence , which is ...
Page 121
... mind of the man who wrote a Treatise of Canon Law in hexameters . Pray help me to the description of a mixed mode , and a little Epi- sode about Space .. Mr. Walpole and Mr. Gray set out from Florence at the time specified in the ...
... mind of the man who wrote a Treatise of Canon Law in hexameters . Pray help me to the description of a mixed mode , and a little Epi- sode about Space .. Mr. Walpole and Mr. Gray set out from Florence at the time specified in the ...
Page 122
... mind must have been in a far more tranquil state than when he wrote this excellent Ode . It is marked , I think , with all the finest touches of his melancholy Muse , and flows with such an originality of expression , that one can ...
... mind must have been in a far more tranquil state than when he wrote this excellent Ode . It is marked , I think , with all the finest touches of his melancholy Muse , and flows with such an originality of expression , that one can ...
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