Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... March 9 , 1755 . I Do not pretend to humble any one's pride ; I love my own too well to attempt it . As to mortifying their vanity , it is too easy and too mean a task for me to delight in . You are very good in shewing so much ...
... March 9 , 1755 . I Do not pretend to humble any one's pride ; I love my own too well to attempt it . As to mortifying their vanity , it is too easy and too mean a task for me to delight in . You are very good in shewing so much ...
Page 237
... March 25 , 1756 . THOUGH I had no reasonable excuse for myself before I received your last letter , yet since that time I have had a pretty good one ; having been taken up in quarrelling with Peter - house , * and in removing myself ...
... March 25 , 1756 . THOUGH I had no reasonable excuse for myself before I received your last letter , yet since that time I have had a pretty good one ; having been taken up in quarrelling with Peter - house , * and in removing myself ...
Page 256
... March 8 , 1758 . Ir is indeed for want of spirits , as you sus- pect , that my studies lie among the cathedrals , and the tombs , and the ruins . To think , though to little purpose , has been the chief amusement of my days ; and when I ...
... March 8 , 1758 . Ir is indeed for want of spirits , as you sus- pect , that my studies lie among the cathedrals , and the tombs , and the ruins . To think , though to little purpose , has been the chief amusement of my days ; and when I ...
Page 300
... March , 1765 . My instructions , of which you are so de- sirous , are twofold : the first part relates to what is past , and that will be rather diffuse : the second , to what is to come ; and that we shall treat more succinctly , and ...
... March , 1765 . My instructions , of which you are so de- sirous , are twofold : the first part relates to what is past , and that will be rather diffuse : the second , to what is to come ; and that we shall treat more succinctly , and ...
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... march a foot farther . Vestibulum ante ipsum , primisque in faucibus Orci stands the solitary mansion of Mr. Robertson , of Fascley ; close by it rises a hill covered with oak , with grotesque masses of rock staring from among their ...
... march a foot farther . Vestibulum ante ipsum , primisque in faucibus Orci stands the solitary mansion of Mr. Robertson , of Fascley ; close by it rises a hill covered with oak , with grotesque masses of rock staring from among their ...
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