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Indeed , Mr. Gray and his friend ( Walpole ) were looked upon as too delicate , upon which ix account they had few associates and never engaged in any INTRODUCTION : PAGE A Brief Life of Thomas Gray.
Indeed , Mr. Gray and his friend ( Walpole ) were looked upon as too delicate , upon which ix account they had few associates and never engaged in any INTRODUCTION : PAGE A Brief Life of Thomas Gray.
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account they had few associates and never engaged in any exercise nor partook of any boyish amusements . ” In 1734 Gray left Eton and entered Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he was admitted a pensioner . Here , as at the other school ...
account they had few associates and never engaged in any exercise nor partook of any boyish amusements . ” In 1734 Gray left Eton and entered Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he was admitted a pensioner . Here , as at the other school ...
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He possesses isolated passages of remarkable force and beauty , and never sinks below a certain level ; but among the most remarkable characteristics of his mind was an almost utter absence of creative or reproductive power , and an ...
He possesses isolated passages of remarkable force and beauty , and never sinks below a certain level ; but among the most remarkable characteristics of his mind was an almost utter absence of creative or reproductive power , and an ...
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Long afterward , in speaking of this period in his life , he said , " I was bred to the law , a profession to which I was never much inclined and in which I engaged , rather because I was desirous to gratify a most indulgent father ...
Long afterward , in speaking of this period in his life , he said , " I was bred to the law , a profession to which I was never much inclined and in which I engaged , rather because I was desirous to gratify a most indulgent father ...
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Far from the maddingo crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . 75 Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail ...
Far from the maddingo crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . 75 Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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