Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 20
... reason my letters are shorter * Mr. Walpole , on my informing him that it was my intention to publish the principal part of Mr. Gray's correspondence with Mr. West , very obligingly communicated to me the letters which he had also ...
... reason my letters are shorter * Mr. Walpole , on my informing him that it was my intention to publish the principal part of Mr. Gray's correspondence with Mr. West , very obligingly communicated to me the letters which he had also ...
Page 23
... Reason's judging eye ! Born in this moment , in the next we die ; Part mortal clay , and part ethereal fire , Too proud to creep , too humble to aspire . In vain our plans of happiness we raise , Pain is our lot , and patience is our ...
... Reason's judging eye ! Born in this moment , in the next we die ; Part mortal clay , and part ethereal fire , Too proud to creep , too humble to aspire . In vain our plans of happiness we raise , Pain is our lot , and patience is our ...
Page 50
... reason to stomach your last piece of gravity . Supposing you were in your soberest mood , I am sorry you should think me capable of ever being so dissipé , so evaporé , as not to be in a condition of relishing any thing you could say to ...
... reason to stomach your last piece of gravity . Supposing you were in your soberest mood , I am sorry you should think me capable of ever being so dissipé , so evaporé , as not to be in a condition of relishing any thing you could say to ...
Page 60
... reason of our going to Tunbridge , so that you cannot expect much description or amuse- ment from thence . Nor indeed is there much room for either ; for all diversions there may be reduced to two articles , gaming and going to church ...
... reason of our going to Tunbridge , so that you cannot expect much description or amuse- ment from thence . Nor indeed is there much room for either ; for all diversions there may be reduced to two articles , gaming and going to church ...
Page 62
... reason to think our time lost . After having tra- velled seven days very slow ( for we did not change horses , it being impossible for a chaise to go post in these roads ) we arrived at a little village , among the mountains of Savoy ...
... reason to think our time lost . After having tra- velled seven days very slow ( for we did not change horses , it being impossible for a chaise to go post in these roads ) we arrived at a little village , among the mountains of Savoy ...
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