Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 55
... sure they do not hate gaiety any more than the rest of their country people , and can enter into diversions , that are once proposed , with a good grace enough : for instance , the other evening we happened to be got together in a ...
... sure they do not hate gaiety any more than the rest of their country people , and can enter into diversions , that are once proposed , with a good grace enough : for instance , the other evening we happened to be got together in a ...
Page 65
... sure , that the inhabitants have built all about it , who received us with much politeness . The same night we eat part of a trout , taken in the lake , that weighed thirty - seven pounds ; as great a monster as it appeared to us , it ...
... sure , that the inhabitants have built all about it , who received us with much politeness . The same night we eat part of a trout , taken in the lake , that weighed thirty - seven pounds ; as great a monster as it appeared to us , it ...
Page 105
... sure , if Coke had been printed by Elzevir , and bound in twenty neat pocket volumes , instead of one folio , you should never have taken him up for an hour , as you would a Tully , or drank your tea over him ? I know how great an ...
... sure , if Coke had been printed by Elzevir , and bound in twenty neat pocket volumes , instead of one folio , you should never have taken him up for an hour , as you would a Tully , or drank your tea over him ? I know how great an ...
Page 108
... sure of writing to you , having been upon a little excursion cross the mountains to Bologna . We set out from hence at sunset , passed the Appennines by moon - light , travelling incessantly till we came to Bologna at four in the ...
... sure of writing to you , having been upon a little excursion cross the mountains to Bologna . We set out from hence at sunset , passed the Appennines by moon - light , travelling incessantly till we came to Bologna at four in the ...
Page 129
... sure to find his reward in the plau- dit of an upper gallery : but the other ought to have some regard to the cooler judgment of the closet : for I will be bold to say , that if Shake- spear himself had not written a multitude of pas ...
... sure to find his reward in the plau- dit of an upper gallery : but the other ought to have some regard to the cooler judgment of the closet : for I will be bold to say , that if Shake- spear himself had not written a multitude of pas ...
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