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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Pagina 5
... appear under my name .. As yet I have not looked into Sir Isaac . Public disputa- tions I hate ; mathematics I reverence ; history , morality , and natural philosophy have the greatest charms in my eye ; but who can forget poetry ? they ...
... appear under my name .. As yet I have not looked into Sir Isaac . Public disputa- tions I hate ; mathematics I reverence ; history , morality , and natural philosophy have the greatest charms in my eye ; but who can forget poetry ? they ...
Pagina 14
... appear , Would pluck the promise of the vernal year ; Or , ere the grapes their purple hue betray , Tear the crude cluster from the mourning spray . Stern Power of Fate , whose ebon sceptre rules The Stygian deserts and Cimmerian pools ...
... appear , Would pluck the promise of the vernal year ; Or , ere the grapes their purple hue betray , Tear the crude cluster from the mourning spray . Stern Power of Fate , whose ebon sceptre rules The Stygian deserts and Cimmerian pools ...
Pagina 16
... appear , The fields as verdant , and the skies as clear ; Nor storms nor comets will my doom declare , Nor signs on earth , nor portents in the air ; Unknown and silent will depart my breath , Nor Nature e'er take notice of my death ...
... appear , The fields as verdant , and the skies as clear ; Nor storms nor comets will my doom declare , Nor signs on earth , nor portents in the air ; Unknown and silent will depart my breath , Nor Nature e'er take notice of my death ...
Pagina 54
... appear a match for a much greater power ; though perhaps Geneva , and all that belongs to it , are not of equal extent with Windsor and its two parks . To one that has passed through Savoy , as we did , nothing can be more striking than ...
... appear a match for a much greater power ; though perhaps Geneva , and all that belongs to it , are not of equal extent with Windsor and its two parks . To one that has passed through Savoy , as we did , nothing can be more striking than ...
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... appears to him , and what it and he say upon the occasion . Locked out of Parma on a cold winter's night ; the Author , by an ingenious stratagem , gains admittance . Despises that city , and proceeds through Reggio to Modena . How the ...
... appears to him , and what it and he say upon the occasion . Locked out of Parma on a cold winter's night ; the Author , by an ingenious stratagem , gains admittance . Despises that city , and proceeds through Reggio to Modena . How the ...
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The letters; with important additions and corrections from his own ... Thomas Gray Visualizzazione completa - 1816 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
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
Brani popolari
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.