Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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... hope ) quite departed , though , if I were self - interested , I ought to wish for the con- tinuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me . Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up with ...
... hope ) quite departed , though , if I were self - interested , I ought to wish for the con- tinuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me . Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up with ...
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... hope to be in town , and not long after at Cambridge . Burnham , Sept. 1737 . I am , & c . LETTER XI . MR . WEST TO MR . GRAY . RECEIVING no answer to my last letter , which I writ above a month ago , I must own I am a little uneasy ...
... hope to be in town , and not long after at Cambridge . Burnham , Sept. 1737 . I am , & c . LETTER XI . MR . WEST TO MR . GRAY . RECEIVING no answer to my last letter , which I writ above a month ago , I must own I am a little uneasy ...
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... hope you will excuse it . Perspicui puerum ludentem in margine rivi Immersit vitreæ limpidus error aquæ : At gelido ut mater moribundum e flumine traxit Credula , et amplexu funus inane fovet : Paulatim puer in dilecto pectore , somno ...
... hope you will excuse it . Perspicui puerum ludentem in margine rivi Immersit vitreæ limpidus error aquæ : At gelido ut mater moribundum e flumine traxit Credula , et amplexu funus inane fovet : Paulatim puer in dilecto pectore , somno ...
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... hope it will reach you soon after your arrival , your boxes out of the waggon , your- self out of the coach , and tutors out of your me- mory . Adieu ! we shall see one another , I hope , to- morrow . ELEGIA . Quod mihi tam gratæ ...
... hope it will reach you soon after your arrival , your boxes out of the waggon , your- self out of the coach , and tutors out of your me- mory . Adieu ! we shall see one another , I hope , to- morrow . ELEGIA . Quod mihi tam gratæ ...
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... hope at pre- sent you have your proportion of them , and that all your frosts , and snows , and short - breaths are , by this time , utterly vanished . I have nothing new or particular to inform you of ; and if you see things at home go ...
... hope at pre- sent you have your proportion of them , and that all your frosts , and snows , and short - breaths are , by this time , utterly vanished . I have nothing new or particular to inform you of ; and if you see things at home go ...
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