The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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Page x
... once and since that I have lived with Mr. Chute , who is all vehemence ; with Mr. Fox , who is all disputation ; with Sir C. Williams , who has no time from flattery , himself ; and with Gray , who does not hate to find fault with me ...
... once and since that I have lived with Mr. Chute , who is all vehemence ; with Mr. Fox , who is all disputation ; with Sir C. Williams , who has no time from flattery , himself ; and with Gray , who does not hate to find fault with me ...
Page xii
... once diverged from his way , between Turin and Lyons , again to contemplate the wild and magnificent scenery that surrounded the Grande Chartreuse ; and in the Album of the Fathers he wrote his beautiful ' Alcaic Ode , ' which bears ...
... once diverged from his way , between Turin and Lyons , again to contemplate the wild and magnificent scenery that surrounded the Grande Chartreuse ; and in the Album of the Fathers he wrote his beautiful ' Alcaic Ode , ' which bears ...
Page xxvii
... once ; it always finds some disposition of the mind favour- able to receive it , some passion which cannot resist its power , some feelings which participate in its sorrows . Much time elapses , before works of elaborate structure , of ...
... once ; it always finds some disposition of the mind favour- able to receive it , some passion which cannot resist its power , some feelings which participate in its sorrows . Much time elapses , before works of elaborate structure , of ...
Page xlv
... once owned to me , that they repented of the attempt . " During Gray's residence in London , he became slightly acquainted with the amiable naturalist Mr. Stillingfleet , whose death took place a few months after his own . At the ...
... once owned to me , that they repented of the attempt . " During Gray's residence in London , he became slightly acquainted with the amiable naturalist Mr. Stillingfleet , whose death took place a few months after his own . At the ...
Page xlviii
... once lived from choice , and continued to do so from obligation . " In one of his conversations with Dr. Beattie , who expressed himself with less admi- ration of Dryden than Gray thought his due ; he told him , " that if there was any ...
... once lived from choice , and continued to do so from obligation . " In one of his conversations with Dr. Beattie , who expressed himself with less admi- ration of Dryden than Gray thought his due ; he told him , " that if there was any ...
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