The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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Page xvii
... writer of an 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 ...
... writer of an 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 ...
Page xxviii
... writing to Sir William Forbes , says : " Of all the English poets of this age , Mr. Gray is most admired , and I think with justice ; yet there are comparatively speaking , but a few who know any thing of his , but his ' Church- yard ...
... writing to Sir William Forbes , says : " Of all the English poets of this age , Mr. Gray is most admired , and I think with justice ; yet there are comparatively speaking , but a few who know any thing of his , but his ' Church- yard ...
Page xxx
... writing called ' Philodamus , ' which was acted at Covent Garden . For an account of R. Bentley see Brydges ' Resti- tuta , vol . iv . p . 364. Scott's Lives of the Novelists , vol . ii . p . 235. Boaden's Life of Mrs. Siddons , i . p ...
... writing called ' Philodamus , ' which was acted at Covent Garden . For an account of R. Bentley see Brydges ' Resti- tuta , vol . iv . p . 364. Scott's Lives of the Novelists , vol . ii . p . 235. Boaden's Life of Mrs. Siddons , i . p ...
Page xxxv
... write his own Ode . I like Mr. Whitehead's little poems , ( I mean The Ode on a Tent , The Verses to Garrick , and parti- cularly those to Charles Townshend , ) better than any thing I had ever seen before of him . I gladly pass over H ...
... write his own Ode . I like Mr. Whitehead's little poems , ( I mean The Ode on a Tent , The Verses to Garrick , and parti- cularly those to Charles Townshend , ) better than any thing I had ever seen before of him . I gladly pass over H ...
Page xxxvi
... write prose , write sermons , write nothing at all , ' they will disdain me and my advice . Mr. S. Jenyns now and then can write a good line or two , such as these : ' Snatch us from all our little sorrows here , Calm every grief , and ...
... write prose , write sermons , write nothing at all , ' they will disdain me and my advice . Mr. S. Jenyns now and then can write a good line or two , such as these : ' Snatch us from all our little sorrows here , Calm every grief , and ...
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