...not, £c. for almost all the employment of my hours may be best explained by negatives; take my word and experience upon it, doing nothing is a most amusing...the same dull prospect, and to know that having made fouiand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was -- I may, better than most people, say my life...

...not, &c. for almost all the employment of my hours may be best explained by negatives : take my word and experience upon it, doing nothing is a most amusing...fancying he makes a progress, and gets some ground ; triy eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty...

...His life was monotonous and cheerless. " When you have seen one of my days," he wrote at this time, " you have seen a whole year of my life; they go round...fourand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was." He wrote, during this period, letters to his friends so full of humor and elegance that we may well...

...His life was monotonous and cheerless. " When you have seen one of my days," he wrote at this time, " you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round...fourand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was." He wrote, during this period, letters to his friends so full of humor and elegance that we may well...

...neither fomething nor nothing gives me any pleafure. When you have feen one of my days, you have feen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horfe in the mill, only he has the fatisfa&ion of fancying he makes a progrefs and gets fome ground...

...a mostamu«ing business; and yet neither something nor nothing gives me any pleasure. When you hare seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of...fourand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was : 1 may, better l bau most people, say my life is but a span, were I not afraid lest you should not...

...and chicken fricasse'e." In a letter to his old classmate and constant friend, Mr. West, he says : " When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a...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 over...

...not, &c., for almost all the employment of my hours may be best explained by negatives; take my word and experience upon it, doing nothing is a most amusing...four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was." This is the real Gray speaking to us for the first time, and after a few more playful phrases he turns...

...most amusing business ; and \ yet neither something nor nothing gives me any pleasure. When you h,ive seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of...fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; I my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, . and to know that having made four-and-twenty...

...Cambridge, in order to be near the libraries ; and here his career was so quiet that he wrote to a friend, " When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life." Some amusing incidents are related of his quiet and retired life. He had a great dread of fire, and...