The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are Added Memoirs of His Life and WritingsA. Ward, 1778 - 564 pages |
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... himself well read in Stage - Coaches , Coun- try Squires , Inns , and Inns of Court . His reflections upon high people and low people , and miffes and maf- NO Ꭲ E .. I fuppofe at Eton School . ters ters , are very good . However the ...
... himself well read in Stage - Coaches , Coun- try Squires , Inns , and Inns of Court . His reflections upon high people and low people , and miffes and maf- NO Ꭲ E .. I fuppofe at Eton School . ters ters , are very good . However the ...
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... himself , I believe my amufe- ments NOT E. The lines which he means here are from - thus ever grave and undisturb'd reflection - to Rubellius lives . For the part of the scene , which he fent in his former letter , began there . ments ...
... himself , I believe my amufe- ments NOT E. The lines which he means here are from - thus ever grave and undisturb'd reflection - to Rubellius lives . For the part of the scene , which he fent in his former letter , began there . ments ...
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... himself would be numbered amongst the living . But this is almost conftantly the cafe with fuch perfons as die of that moft remedilefs , yet most flattering of all diftempers , a Confumption . Humanity be thankful or forry that it is fo ...
... himself would be numbered amongst the living . But this is almost conftantly the cafe with fuch perfons as die of that moft remedilefs , yet most flattering of all diftempers , a Confumption . Humanity be thankful or forry that it is fo ...
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... himself with intenfe affiduity to the study of the best Greek authors ; infomuch that , in the space of about fix years , there were hardly any wri- ters of note in that language which he had not only read but digested ; remarking , by ...
... himself with intenfe affiduity to the study of the best Greek authors ; infomuch that , in the space of about fix years , there were hardly any wri- ters of note in that language which he had not only read but digested ; remarking , by ...
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... , or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art , being in fome fort his own invention ; fo that he NOT E. Thucydides , L. vik he often lofes himself in little trifling diftinctions and verbal [ 82 ]
... , or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art , being in fome fort his own invention ; fo that he NOT E. Thucydides , L. vik he often lofes himself in little trifling diftinctions and verbal [ 82 ]
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