Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 42
... published both before and after the time when these letters were written , of those very places which Mr. Gray describes , will necessarily take from them much of their novelty ; yet the elegant ease of his epistolary style has a charm ...
... published both before and after the time when these letters were written , of those very places which Mr. Gray describes , will necessarily take from them much of their novelty ; yet the elegant ease of his epistolary style has a charm ...
Page 49
... published in his famous Lettre sur la Musique Fran- çoise . In a French letter also , which Mr. Gray writ to his friend soon after this , he calls their music " des miaulemens et des hurlemens effroyables , melés avec un tintamarre du ...
... published in his famous Lettre sur la Musique Fran- çoise . In a French letter also , which Mr. Gray writ to his friend soon after this , he calls their music " des miaulemens et des hurlemens effroyables , melés avec un tintamarre du ...
Page 60
... . They were pleased to publish certain Tunbrigiana this season ; but such ana ! I believe there were never so many vile little verses put together before . So much for Tunbridge : London affords me as little to ( 60 )
... . They were pleased to publish certain Tunbrigiana this season ; but such ana ! I believe there were never so many vile little verses put together before . So much for Tunbridge : London affords me as little to ( 60 )
Page 107
... published last year by a † namesake of yours , with which we are all enrap- tured and enmarvailed . * The reader will find this in Dodsley's Miscellany , and also amongst Mr. Walpole's Fugitive Pieces . + Gilbert West , Esq . This poem ...
... published last year by a † namesake of yours , with which we are all enrap- tured and enmarvailed . * The reader will find this in Dodsley's Miscellany , and also amongst Mr. Walpole's Fugitive Pieces . + Gilbert West , Esq . This poem ...
Page 141
... prosing ? As to Crebillon , ' twas his " Egaremens du Cœur et de l'Esprit " that our author chiefly esteemed ; he had not , I believe , at this time published his more licen- tious pieces . a very ill one to my understanding . As to ( 141 )
... prosing ? As to Crebillon , ' twas his " Egaremens du Cœur et de l'Esprit " that our author chiefly esteemed ; he had not , I believe , at this time published his more licen- tious pieces . a very ill one to my understanding . As to ( 141 )
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