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... wrote letters to a limited number of acquaintances . He left Cam- bridge in 1738 without taking a degree , it being refused him because of his failure to complete his work in philosophy , a study for which he had a peculiar aversion ...
... wrote letters to a limited number of acquaintances . He left Cam- bridge in 1738 without taking a degree , it being refused him because of his failure to complete his work in philosophy , a study for which he had a peculiar aversion ...
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... wrote his first English poems . The " Ode on the Spring , ' " " Sonnet on the Death of Richard West " ( West died on June 1 ) , “ Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College , " and " Hymn to Adversity " all belong to this period ...
... wrote his first English poems . The " Ode on the Spring , ' " " Sonnet on the Death of Richard West " ( West died on June 1 ) , “ Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College , " and " Hymn to Adversity " all belong to this period ...
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... 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 , that he might not be disturbed in his work , and in 1759 went up to London to ...
... 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 , that he might not be disturbed in his work , and in 1759 went up to London to ...
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Thomas Gray. 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 ...
Thomas Gray. 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 ...
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... wrote and published several ballads 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 ...
... wrote and published several ballads 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 ...
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