The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence with Several Eminent Literary Characters : to which are Added, Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Volum 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; J. Walker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; J. Murray and J. Booker, 1807 |
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... friend's translation of an Epigram of Posidippus , " Græcam illam " ¿ Qλéíα mirificè sapit . " The learned reader , I imagine , will readily give this tetrastic the same character . be greatly for their interest , if they could bring 3.
... friend's translation of an Epigram of Posidippus , " Græcam illam " ¿ Qλéíα mirificè sapit . " The learned reader , I imagine , will readily give this tetrastic the same character . be greatly for their interest , if they could bring 3.
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... reader . * This singular anecdote is founded on a marginal note in his common - place book , where that Ode is transcribed , and the follow- ing memorandum annexed : " Written at Stoke the beginning of " June 1742 , and sent to Mr. West ...
... reader . * This singular anecdote is founded on a marginal note in his common - place book , where that Ode is transcribed , and the follow- ing memorandum annexed : " Written at Stoke the beginning of " June 1742 , and sent to Mr. West ...
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... Readers of taste will feel when they learn this anecdote ; and which will make them read it with redoubled pleasure . It will also throw a me , lancholy grace ( to borrow one of his own expressions ) on the Ode on a distant prospect of ...
... Readers of taste will feel when they learn this anecdote ; and which will make them read it with redoubled pleasure . It will also throw a me , lancholy grace ( to borrow one of his own expressions ) on the Ode on a distant prospect of ...
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... Reader : but the Sonnet , being com- pleted , is inserted amongst the rest of his Poems . It may seem somewhat extraordinary , that Mr. Gray never attempted any thing in English verse , ( except the beginning of Agrippina , and a few ...
... Reader : but the Sonnet , being com- pleted , is inserted amongst the rest of his Poems . It may seem somewhat extraordinary , that Mr. Gray never attempted any thing in English verse , ( except the beginning of Agrippina , and a few ...
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... reader more insight into his design , than the few scattered papers , which he has left , able me to do . It is clear , however , from the Exor- dium itself , that he meant to make the same use of Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human ...
... reader more insight into his design , than the few scattered papers , which he has left , able me to do . It is clear , however , from the Exor- dium itself , that he meant to make the same use of Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human ...
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