Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in OneWells and Lilly, Court-street, 1820 - 244 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... turning your face ? Your friends , indeed , may be happy in you , but what will you do with your classic compan- ions ? An inn of court is as horrid a place * I suspect that Mr. West mistook his correspondent ; who , in saying he did ...
... turning your face ? Your friends , indeed , may be happy in you , but what will you do with your classic compan- ions ? An inn of court is as horrid a place * I suspect that Mr. West mistook his correspondent ; who , in saying he did ...
Pagina 22
... turn of his epistle would not admit so ludicrous a thought , as was in its place in Mr Pope's familiar letter ; so that we see , young as he was , he had obtained the art of judiciously selecting ; one of the first provinces of good ...
... turn of his epistle would not admit so ludicrous a thought , as was in its place in Mr Pope's familiar letter ; so that we see , young as he was , he had obtained the art of judiciously selecting ; one of the first provinces of good ...
Pagina 23
... turn them to the same use that you have done , and make an Apollo of them . If they could write such verses with me , not hartshorn , nor spirit of amber , nor all that furnishes the closet of an apothecary's wi- dow , should persuade ...
... turn them to the same use that you have done , and make an Apollo of them . If they could write such verses with me , not hartshorn , nor spirit of amber , nor all that furnishes the closet of an apothecary's wi- dow , should persuade ...
Pagina 38
... turns I shall be sure to acquaint you with ; the most wonderful is , that it now rains ex- ceedingly , this has refreshed the prospect , as the way for the most part lies between green fields on either hand , terminated with buildings ...
... turns I shall be sure to acquaint you with ; the most wonderful is , that it now rains ex- ceedingly , this has refreshed the prospect , as the way for the most part lies between green fields on either hand , terminated with buildings ...
Pagina 64
... turn to realities , I would fling down my law books , and sup with you But , alas ! here I am doomed to fix , while you are fluttering from city to city , and enjoying all the pleasures which a gay climate can afford . It is out of the ...
... turn to realities , I would fling down my law books , and sup with you But , alas ! here I am doomed to fix , while you are fluttering from city to city , and enjoying all the pleasures which a gay climate can afford . It is out of the ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire antiquity antistrophe appear beautiful believe body called Cambridge Caractacus castle church Dodsley duke Dunciad Elegy Elfrida Elidurus eyes Florence Genoa give Gothic Gray Gray's Greek hand head hear heard Herculaneum hill honour hope house of York imagine Ingleborough 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 perhaps Peterhouse Pindaric pleasure poem poetry pope Pray rest Rheims rise river road rock Rome round scene seems seen side Skiddaw sort spirits sure Syphax Tacitus taste tell Teverone thing THOMAS GRAY thought Tibullus tion town trees vale valley verses walk WALPOLE WEST WHARTON wish wood write
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Pagina 147 - And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them...
Pagina 74 - 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 74 - There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it.
Pagina 128 - I had discovered a thing very little known, which is, that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near) as wise as you, and yet I never discovered this (with full evidence and conviction I mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but as yesterday, and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart...
Pagina 197 - I shall continue good part of the summer); and having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it you.* You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it ; a merit that most of my writings have wanted, and are like to want, but which this epistle I am determined shall not want, when it tells you that I am ever Yours.
Pagina 22 - My comfort amidst all this is", that i have, at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself.
Pagina 10 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 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 63 - ... almost perpendicular, at the bottom of which rolls a torrent, that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have fallen from on high, and sometimes precipitating itself down vast descents with a noise like thunder, which is still made greater by the echo from the mountains on each fide, concurs to form one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes I ever beheld.
Pagina 5 - 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 203 - 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 my name, in what form is most convenient for him, but on his best paper and character; he must correct the press himself, and print it without any interval between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued beyond them ; and the title must be, — Elegy,...