Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... four days , one of which was spent at Sienna , an agreeable , clean , old city , of no great magnificence , or extent ; but in a fine situation , and good air . What it has most considerable is its cathedral , a huge pile of marble ...
... four days , one of which was spent at Sienna , an agreeable , clean , old city , of no great magnificence , or extent ; but in a fine situation , and good air . What it has most considerable is its cathedral , a huge pile of marble ...
Page 89
... four little mountains , and laid them out in an irregu- lar semicircle ; from certain others behind , at a greater distance , she has drawn a canal , into which she has put a little river of her's , called Anio ; she has cut a huge ...
... four little mountains , and laid them out in an irregu- lar semicircle ; from certain others behind , at a greater distance , she has drawn a canal , into which she has put a little river of her's , called Anio ; she has cut a huge ...
Page 92
... four sides of a sheet royal . Do you but find 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 ...
... four sides of a sheet royal . Do you but find 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 ...
Page 99
... four years 虐*螺 since ran down its side . We have but a few days longer to stay here ; too little in conscience for such a place . LETTER XXIII . MR . GRAY TO HIS FATHER . Florence , July 16 , 1740 . Ar my return to this city , the day ...
... four years 虐*螺 since ran down its side . We have but a few days longer to stay here ; too little in conscience for such a place . LETTER XXIII . MR . GRAY TO HIS FATHER . Florence , July 16 , 1740 . Ar my return to this city , the day ...
Page 103
... with delicate feeling , manly sense , and epistolary ease . If the reader should think as highly of it as I do , let me remind him that the writer was not now quite four and twenty years old . LETTER XXV . MR . GRAY TO MR . WEST H 2 ( 103 )
... with delicate feeling , manly sense , and epistolary ease . If the reader should think as highly of it as I do , let me remind him that the writer was not now quite four and twenty years old . LETTER XXV . MR . GRAY TO MR . WEST H 2 ( 103 )
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