The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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Page iv
... English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I have said , from the time when he left Eton for Cambridge ; but from them it is difficult to trace the line of study which he pursued at College . His letters treat chiefly of his ...
... English literature . Gray's Letters commence , as I have said , from the time when he left Eton for Cambridge ; but from them it is difficult to trace the line of study which he pursued at College . His letters treat chiefly of his ...
Page v
... English translation of part of the fourteenth canto of Tasso's ' Gerusalemme Liberata , ' which is inserted in the present edition . From September till the following March , Gray resided at his fa- ther's house ; but his correspondence ...
... English translation of part of the fourteenth canto of Tasso's ' Gerusalemme Liberata , ' which is inserted in the present edition . From September till the following March , Gray resided at his fa- ther's house ; but his correspondence ...
Page vii
... English travellers , and see a little of the country . Throw yourselves into the bosom of the Apennine ; survey the horrid lake of Amsanctus ; catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno ; expatiate to the very toe of the ...
... English travellers , and see a little of the country . Throw yourselves into the bosom of the Apennine ; survey the horrid lake of Amsanctus ; catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno ; expatiate to the very toe of the ...
Page viii
... English travel- lers who visited the remains of Herculaneum , * as it was discovered only the preceding year ; and he pointed out to his companion , the description in Statius that pictured the latent city : " Hæc ego Chalcidicis ad te ...
... English travel- lers who visited the remains of Herculaneum , * as it was discovered only the preceding year ; and he pointed out to his companion , the description in Statius that pictured the latent city : " Hæc ego Chalcidicis ad te ...
Page xvii
... English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is of the very essence of our own tongue , derived to it from its Saxon origin , and a main source of ...
... English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is of the very essence of our own tongue , derived to it from its Saxon origin , and a main source of ...
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