The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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Page vii
... Pope , died ; and they hastened their journey to Rome , in the hope of seeing the installation of his successor . † That Gray would have wished to have extended his travels , and en- larged his prospect beyond these narrow limits , if ...
... Pope , died ; and they hastened their journey to Rome , in the hope of seeing the installation of his successor . † That Gray would have wished to have extended his travels , and en- larged his prospect beyond these narrow limits , if ...
Page xii
... Pope on his father's death , he answered in the pious language of Euryalus , - " Genitrix est mihi , ” - and Gray , in the like cir- cumstances , assuredly felt no less the pleasure that arose from contributing to preserve the life and ...
... Pope on his father's death , he answered in the pious language of Euryalus , - " Genitrix est mihi , ” - and Gray , in the like cir- cumstances , assuredly felt no less the pleasure that arose from contributing to preserve the life and ...
Page xxiii
... Pope's Dunciad ; the fourth book of which had appeared but a year or two before : and Gray , I should think , had that poem in his mind when he wrote these lines , to ridicule what he calls " that ineffable Octo- grammaton , the power ...
... Pope's Dunciad ; the fourth book of which had appeared but a year or two before : and Gray , I should think , had that poem in his mind when he wrote these lines , to ridicule what he calls " that ineffable Octo- grammaton , the power ...
Page xxiv
... Pope , informs us , that " little no- tice was taken of it , on its first publication . ” This , Walpole wished him to print his own poems with those of his deceased friend West . however , he declined , thinking the materials not ...
... Pope , informs us , that " little no- tice was taken of it , on its first publication . ” This , Walpole wished him to print his own poems with those of his deceased friend West . however , he declined , thinking the materials not ...
Page xxx
... Pope , in their complimentary eulogies on Kneller . In March 1753 , he lost the mother , whom he had so long and so affectionately loved ; and he plate in the etchings of Bentley ; and that his uncle has com- pletely libelled both his ...
... Pope , in their complimentary eulogies on Kneller . In March 1753 , he lost the mother , whom he had so long and so affectionately loved ; and he plate in the etchings of Bentley ; and that his uncle has com- pletely libelled both his ...
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