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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... kind , however well written , deserve not to be transmitted to posterity ; and , indeed , are usually buried , as they ought to be , in the trash with which they are surrounded . Every person , who feels himself a poet , ought to be ...
... kind , however well written , deserve not to be transmitted to posterity ; and , indeed , are usually buried , as they ought to be , in the trash with which they are surrounded . Every person , who feels himself a poet , ought to be ...
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... kind of poesie , is because my low spirits and constant ill health ( things in me not imaginary , as you surmise , but too real alas ! and , I fear , constitutional ) have tuned my heart to elegies of woe ; " and this likewise is the ...
... kind of poesie , is because my low spirits and constant ill health ( things in me not imaginary , as you surmise , but too real alas ! and , I fear , constitutional ) have tuned my heart to elegies of woe ; " and this likewise is the ...
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... kind . And here let me wonder that a man , longè græcorum doctissimus , should be at a loss for the verse and chapter whence my epigram is taken . I am sorry I have not my Aldus with me that I might satisfy your curiosity ; but * This ...
... kind . And here let me wonder that a man , longè græcorum doctissimus , should be at a loss for the verse and chapter whence my epigram is taken . I am sorry I have not my Aldus with me that I might satisfy your curiosity ; but * This ...
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... kind , and extremely neat . They pressed us to spend the night there , and to stay some days with them ; but this we could not do , so they led us about their house , which is , you must think , like a little city ; for there are 100 ...
... kind , and extremely neat . They pressed us to spend the night there , and to stay some days with them ; but this we could not do , so they led us about their house , which is , you must think , like a little city ; for there are 100 ...
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... kind of animals , more industrious than Italians usually are ; they work till evening ; then take their lute or guitar ( for they all play ) and walk about the city , or upon the sea - shore with it , to enjoy the fresco . One sees ...
... kind of animals , more industrious than Italians usually are ; they work till evening ; then take their lute or guitar ( for they all play ) and walk about the city , or upon the sea - shore with it , to enjoy the fresco . One sees ...
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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
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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.