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By way of recreation , he occasionally composed Latin verses , translated from the Italian authors , and wrote letters to a limited number of acquaintances . He left Cambridge in 1738 without taking a degree , it being refused him ...
By way of recreation , he occasionally composed Latin verses , translated from the Italian authors , and wrote letters to a limited number of acquaintances . He left Cambridge in 1738 without taking a degree , it being refused him ...
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Before reëntering the university however , he spent the summer of 1742 at Stoke , and during that time wrote his first English poems . The “ Ode on the Spring , ' " “ Sonnet on the Death of Richard West ” ( West died on June 1 ) ...
Before reëntering the university however , he spent the summer of 1742 at Stoke , and during that time wrote his first English poems . The “ Ode on the Spring , ' " “ Sonnet on the Death of Richard West ” ( West died on June 1 ) ...
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After the latter event he turned again to poetry for comfort , and in 1754 wrote the “ Ode to Vicissitude ” and “ The Progress of Poesy , " and began “ The Bard . ” In 1756 he removed from Peterhouse to Pembroke Hall at Cambridge ...
After the latter event he turned again to poetry for comfort , and in 1754 wrote the “ Ode to Vicissitude ” and “ The Progress of Poesy , " and began “ The Bard . ” In 1756 he removed from Peterhouse to Pembroke Hall at Cambridge ...
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Britain , accounts of which he wrote in a series of delightful letters . In 1771 he planned an excursion to Switzerland , but it was not to be carried out . He was seized on July 24 with an acute attack of gout in the stomach , which ...
Britain , accounts of which he wrote in a series of delightful letters . In 1771 he planned an excursion to Switzerland , but it was not to be carried out . He was seized on July 24 with an acute attack of gout in the stomach , which ...
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He associated himself with several of the writers of the period , became a member of a literary club , wrote and published several ballads and prose compositions , made a careful study of Pope's translation of Homer , and translated two ...
He associated himself with several of the writers of the period , became a member of a literary club , wrote and published several ballads and prose compositions , made a careful study of Pope's translation of Homer , and translated two ...
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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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