The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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... lord chancellor of Ireland ; who died in 1727 or 1728 , aged 36 ; and his grandfather , by the mother's side , was Bishop Burnet . His father was the maternal uncle of Glover the poet , and is supposed to be the author of a tragedy ...
... lord chancellor of Ireland ; who died in 1727 or 1728 , aged 36 ; and his grandfather , by the mother's side , was Bishop Burnet . His father was the maternal uncle of Glover the poet , and is supposed to be the author of a tragedy ...
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... lord chancellor of Ireland , who died the 1st of June , 1742 , in the 26th year of his age . " West's poems have never been fully collected . There is one , An Ode to Mary Magdalene , ' in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419 : another ...
... lord chancellor of Ireland , who died the 1st of June , 1742 , in the 26th year of his age . " West's poems have never been fully collected . There is one , An Ode to Mary Magdalene , ' in Walpole's Works , vol . iv . p . 419 : another ...
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With a Memoir Thomas Gray. " Lord Grenville , a criticism which does credit to his Lordship's learning and taste ... Lord Grenville , privately printed . C participle similarly formed , though strangely dis- torted in its LIFE OF ...
With a Memoir Thomas Gray. " Lord Grenville , a criticism which does credit to his Lordship's learning and taste ... Lord Grenville , privately printed . C participle similarly formed , though strangely dis- torted in its LIFE OF ...
Page xli
... Lord Chamberlain , to Gray ; with a remarkable and honourable privilege , to hold it as a mere sinecure . This he respectfully declined ; and some of his reasons for refusing it , he gives in a letter to Mr. Mason : " The office itself ...
... Lord Chamberlain , to Gray ; with a remarkable and honourable privilege , to hold it as a mere sinecure . This he respectfully declined ; and some of his reasons for refusing it , he gives in a letter to Mr. Mason : " The office itself ...
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... Lord John Cavendish ( he says ) made an apology to him , ' that being in orders , he was thought less eligible than a lay man . A little tinge of that satire which occa- sionally darted its shafts into the world from the retirement of ...
... Lord John Cavendish ( he says ) made an apology to him , ' that being in orders , he was thought less eligible than a lay man . A little tinge of that satire which occa- sionally darted its shafts into the world from the retirement of ...
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