The Poems of Mr. Gray: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life and WritingsThe first 416 pages are letters ; the last 109 pages are poems. |
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Page 24
... distance of half a mile , through a green lane , a forest ( the vulgar call it a common ) all my own , at least as good as fo , for I spy no human thing in it but myself . It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains ...
... distance of half a mile , through a green lane , a forest ( the vulgar call it a common ) all my own , at least as good as fo , for I spy no human thing in it but myself . It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains ...
Page 35
... distance , caftles , I prefume , and of great antiquity . The roads are very good , being , as I sus- pect , the works of Julius Cæfar's army , for they still pre- serve , in many places , the appearance of a pavement in pretty good ...
... distance , caftles , I prefume , and of great antiquity . The roads are very good , being , as I sus- pect , the works of Julius Cæfar's army , for they still pre- serve , in many places , the appearance of a pavement in pretty good ...
Page 53
... distance , entirely covered with woods and vineyards , and every now and then the ruins of fome old castle on their tops ; we lay at St. Dizier the first night , and at Langres the second , and got hither the next evening time enough to ...
... distance , entirely covered with woods and vineyards , and every now and then the ruins of fome old castle on their tops ; we lay at St. Dizier the first night , and at Langres the second , and got hither the next evening time enough to ...
Page 67
... distance among the trees ; il me femble , que j'ai vu çe chien de vifage là quelque part . You feemed to call to me from the other fide of the precipice , but the noise of the river below was fo great , that I really could not ...
... distance among the trees ; il me femble , que j'ai vu çe chien de vifage là quelque part . You feemed to call to me from the other fide of the precipice , but the noise of the river below was fo great , that I really could not ...
Page 80
... distance ) the cupola of St. Peter's , and a little after began to enter on an old Roman pavement , with now and then a ruined tower , or a fepulcher on each hand . We now had a clear view of the city , though not to the best advantage ...
... distance ) the cupola of St. Peter's , and a little after began to enter on an old Roman pavement , with now and then a ruined tower , or a fepulcher on each hand . We now had a clear view of the city , though not to the best advantage ...
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