The letters; with important additions and corrections from his own manuscripts selected and edited by the Rev. John MitfordJ. Mawman, 39 Ludgate-Street, 1816 |
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... rank , and withal very good sense , will only feel the pathos of this exclamation . - Mason . + Here follow the Verses beginning Quà Trebie glaucas , & c . & c . - Ed . thirdly , how we passed through Piacenza , Parma , 68.
... rank , and withal very good sense , will only feel the pathos of this exclamation . - Mason . + Here follow the Verses beginning Quà Trebie glaucas , & c . & c . - Ed . thirdly , how we passed through Piacenza , Parma , 68.
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... beginning ; yet , upon a further acquaintance , there is surely matter for curiosity and reflection . It is strange if , among all that huge mass of words , there be not somewhat intermixed for thought . * Laws have been the result of ...
... beginning ; yet , upon a further acquaintance , there is surely matter for curiosity and reflection . It is strange if , among all that huge mass of words , there be not somewhat intermixed for thought . * Laws have been the result of ...
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... beginning of next spring is the time determined for our return at furthest ; possibly it may be before that time . How the interim will be employed , or what route we shall take is not so certain . If we remain friends with France ...
... beginning of next spring is the time determined for our return at furthest ; possibly it may be before that time . How the interim will be employed , or what route we shall take is not so certain . If we remain friends with France ...
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... beginning not of an Epic Poem , but of a Metaphysic one . Poems and Metaphysics ( say you , with your spectacles on ) are inconsistent things . A metaphysical poem is a contradiction in terms . It is true , but I will go on . It is ...
... beginning not of an Epic Poem , but of a Metaphysic one . Poems and Metaphysics ( say you , with your spectacles on ) are inconsistent things . A metaphysical poem is a contradiction in terms . It is true , but I will go on . It is ...
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... beginning of an Heroic Epistle ; but you must give me leave to tell my own story first , because Historians differ . Massinissa was the son of Gala King of the Mas- * Propert . iii . 3. 44 . In the 12th Letter of the first Section , Mr ...
... beginning of an Heroic Epistle ; but you must give me leave to tell my own story first , because Historians differ . Massinissa was the son of Gala King of the Mas- * Propert . iii . 3. 44 . In the 12th Letter of the first Section , Mr ...
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The letters; with important additions and corrections from his own ... Thomas Gray Vista completa - 1816 |
The letters; with important additions and corrections from his own ... Thomas Gray Vista completa - 1816 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbéville Adieu admirable agreeable Alcaic Amiens ancient appear beautiful believe body called Cambridge Cardinal church compliments DEAR DOCTOR dear Sir DEAR WHARTON Duke Dunciad Elegy esteem excellent Opera extremely eyes famous Farinelli Florence French Genoa give Grande Chartreuse Gray's hand head hear heard hither hope imagine Italy journey King Lady LETTER live Lord Lyons manner marigold windows Mason Massinissa mihi miles morning mountains Naples never night obliged occasion opinion palace Paris passed Pembroke Hall Pindaric pleasure Poem poet poetry Pope Posidippus pray pretty rest Rhône road Rome seen shew side sincerely sorry sort spirit Statius Stoke suppose sure Syphax Tacitus taste tell Teverone thing thought Tibullus Tortona town Turin vast verses walk Walpole Walpole's week WEST wish wonder write
Pasajes populares
Página 129 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 262 - Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof; The thread is spun;) Half of thy heart we consecrate. (The web is wove; The work is done.) — Stay, oh stay!
Página 260 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 165 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 260 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro...
Página 497 - I will be candid (for you seem to be so with me), and avow to you, that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because I like it ; and because I like myself better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot.
Página 515 - Letters. Poor man ! he was always wishing for money, for fame, and other distinctions; and his whole philosophy consisted in living against his will in retirement, and in a place which his taste had adorned; but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to see and commend it : his correspondence is about nothing eke but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen, who wrote verses too.
Página 178 - ... knowing one's handsome cat is always the cat one likes best; or if one be alive and the other dead, it is usually the latter that is the handsomest. Besides, if the point were never so clear, I hope you do not think me so ill-bred or so imprudent as to forfeit all my interest in the survivor. Oh no! I would rather seem to mistake, and imagine to be sure it must be the tabby one that had met with this sad accident. Till this affair is a little better determined, you will excuse me if I do not...
Página 8 - It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it.
Página 459 - that if there was any excellence in his own numbers, he had learned it wholly from that great poet ' ; and writing to Beattie afterwards he recurs to Dryden, whom Beattie, he thought, did not honour enough as a poet : 'Remember Dryden,' he writes, 'and be blind to all his faults.