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Thomas Gray. PREFACE to J. J. Lankes and his Gray's ELEGY HAVEN'T known many geniuses . Many I am sure of , anyway . I guess I am like most people and don't know a genius from a big barn door until he is safely dead . Most people prefer ...
Thomas Gray. PREFACE to J. J. Lankes and his Gray's ELEGY HAVEN'T known many geniuses . Many I am sure of , anyway . I guess I am like most people and don't know a genius from a big barn door until he is safely dead . Most people prefer ...
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Thomas Gray. American . He has made Stoke Poges into a Virginian village , the yew into a mul- berry tree , the villagers ... Gray's immortal poem all along for two hundred years . We have been making it American . On thousands of Friday ...
Thomas Gray. American . He has made Stoke Poges into a Virginian village , the yew into a mul- berry tree , the villagers ... Gray's immortal poem all along for two hundred years . We have been making it American . On thousands of Friday ...
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Thomas Gray. These lovely words , which General Wolfe first brought to the New World that last night of his life as he was rowing over the Indian River of Death to storm Quebec and make North America forever English , have been ...
Thomas Gray. These lovely words , which General Wolfe first brought to the New World that last night of his life as he was rowing over the Indian River of Death to storm Quebec and make North America forever English , have been ...
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