The British Prose Writers...: Gray's lettersJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Pagina 72
... time , utterly vanished . I have nothing new or particular to inform you of ; and , if you see things at home go on much in their old Clement the Twelfth . course , you must not imagine them more various abroad 72 GRAY'S LETTERS .
... time , utterly vanished . I have nothing new or particular to inform you of ; and , if you see things at home go on much in their old Clement the Twelfth . course , you must not imagine them more various abroad 72 GRAY'S LETTERS .
Pagina 78
... , which , not to be too particular , we shall pass over . The said rooms contain nine chairs , two tables , five stools , and a cricket . From whence we shall proceed to the garden , containing two mil- 78 GRAY'S LETTERS .
... , which , not to be too particular , we shall pass over . The said rooms contain nine chairs , two tables , five stools , and a cricket . From whence we shall proceed to the garden , containing two mil- 78 GRAY'S LETTERS .
Pagina 136
... particular favour to inform me of them , as I have not heard this half - year from them . LXII . TO DR . WHARTON . Cambridge , December 11 , 1746 . I WOULD make you an excuse ( as indeed I ought ) , if they were a sort of thing I ever ...
... particular favour to inform me of them , as I have not heard this half - year from them . LXII . TO DR . WHARTON . Cambridge , December 11 , 1746 . I WOULD make you an excuse ( as indeed I ought ) , if they were a sort of thing I ever ...
Pagina 151
... particular nations and on their policy . The subject , you see , is as extensive as mankind ; the thoughts perfectly new , generally admirable as they are just , sometimes a little too refined . In short , there are faults , but such as ...
... particular nations and on their policy . The subject , you see , is as extensive as mankind ; the thoughts perfectly new , generally admirable as they are just , sometimes a little too refined . In short , there are faults , but such as ...
Pagina 159
... particular one of all the known nations , their pe * Mr. Gray used to say , that good writing not only re- quired great parts , but the very best of those parts . culiar figure and manners , which is the best epitome GRAY'S LETTERS . 159.
... particular one of all the known nations , their pe * Mr. Gray used to say , that good writing not only re- quired great parts , but the very best of those parts . culiar figure and manners , which is the best epitome GRAY'S LETTERS . 159.
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acquaintance Adieu admire antiquity antistrophe appear beautiful believe body Borrowdale called Cambridge Caractacus castle church crags desire Dodsley duke Dunciad Elfrida eyes Florence Genoa give Gothic Grande Chartreuse Gray Gray's Greek hand head hear heard hill honour hope house of York imagine Italy journey Keswick king lady lake late least letter live London lord lord Bolingbroke Mason Massinissa mean miles mind Monody mountains Naples never night obliged opinion passed Pembroke College Pembroke-Hall perhaps Peterhouse Pindaric pleasure poem poetry Pray Rheims rise river road rock Rome round scene Scotland seems seen side Skiddaw sort spirits sure Syphax Tacitus taste tell Teverone thing thought tion town trees vale valley verses walk WALPOLE WEST WHARTON whole wish wood write
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Pagina 67 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Pagina 27 - It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their...
Pagina 16 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Pagina 123 - I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry ; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself ; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatives : nay sometimes words of their own composition or invention.
Pagina 186 - I know, will make me ridiculous enough; but to appear in proper person, at the head of my works, consisting of half a dozen ballads in thirty pages, would be worse than the pillory. I do assure you, if I had received such a book, with such a frontispiece, without any warning, I believe it would have given me a palsy...
Pagina 144 - In the first place he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather than a book ; it tastes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verbal niceties, and what is worse, leaves you to extricate yourself as you can. Thirdly, he...
Pagina 170 - Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Pagina 13 - When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was.
Pagina 174 - Guernsey lilies bloom in every window ; the town, clean and well-built, surrounded by its old stone walls, with their towers and gateways, stands at the point of a peninsula, and opens full south to an arm of the sea. which, having formed two beautiful bays on each hand of it, stretches away in direct view till it joins the British Channel: it is skirted on either side with gently-rising grounds, clothed with thick wood, and directly cross its mouth rise the high lands of the Isle of Wight at distance,...
Pagina 168 - As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me ; and, therefore, am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without...