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Representative Short Stories . Cossetti's ( Christina ) Selected Poems . Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies . Ruskin's The Crown of Wild olive and Queen of the Air . Scott's Ivanhoe . scott's Kenilworth . scott's Lady of the Lake . scott's Lay ...
Representative Short Stories . Cossetti's ( Christina ) Selected Poems . Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies . Ruskin's The Crown of Wild olive and Queen of the Air . Scott's Ivanhoe . scott's Kenilworth . scott's Lady of the Lake . scott's Lay ...
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The story of Gray's life is a short and simple one , for it was a life of secluded studiousness spent in the companionship of books , art , and nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal ...
The story of Gray's life is a short and simple one , for it was a life of secluded studiousness spent in the companionship of books , art , and nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal ...
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... and prose compositions , made a careful study of Pope's translation of Homer , and translated two books of Voltaire's Henriade . In short , as one critic has expressed it , “ The twelve years which he spent in the Temple were ...
... and prose compositions , made a careful study of Pope's translation of Homer , and translated two books of Voltaire's Henriade . In short , as one critic has expressed it , “ The twelve years which he spent in the Temple were ...
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From time to time he had written short poems , but hardly with the view of becoming a literary character . He now worked earnestly , and in 1782 published his first volume . After the fashion of the day it consisted almost wholly of ...
From time to time he had written short poems , but hardly with the view of becoming a literary character . He now worked earnestly , and in 1782 published his first volume . After the fashion of the day it consisted almost wholly of ...
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... and some of his best short poems were produced , among them “ Lines on the Receipt of my Mother's Picture , " " To Mary , “ To Mary , ” and “ The Castaway . " In 1794 a pension of £ 300 was granted him by the government in ...
... and some of his best short poems were produced , among them “ Lines on the Receipt of my Mother's Picture , " " To Mary , “ To Mary , ” and “ The Castaway . " In 1794 a pension of £ 300 was granted him by the government in ...
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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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