The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, 1865 - 223 pages |
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Page ii
... Mason says that , when at school , West's genius was thought to be more brilliant than his friend's . A portrait of the father is in the hall of the Inner Temple , given by Richard Glover . He was appointed Lord Chancellor in the reign ...
... Mason says that , when at school , West's genius was thought to be more brilliant than his friend's . A portrait of the father is in the hall of the Inner Temple , given by Richard Glover . He was appointed Lord Chancellor in the reign ...
Page vi
... says Mr. Mason , " and made occa- sional short remarks on the pictures which he saw . He wrote a minute description of every thing which he saw in his tour from Rome to Naples ; as also of the environs of Rome , Florence , & c They ...
... says Mr. Mason , " and made occa- sional short remarks on the pictures which he saw . He wrote a minute description of every thing which he saw in his tour from Rome to Naples ; as also of the environs of Rome , Florence , & c They ...
Page xiii
... says Mr. Mason , 66 was not the only thing that dis- tressed him at this period . He had , as we have seen , lost the friendship of Mr. Walpole abroad . He had also lost much time in his travels ; a loss which application could not ...
... says Mr. Mason , 66 was not the only thing that dis- tressed him at this period . He had , as we have seen , lost the friendship of Mr. Walpole abroad . He had also lost much time in his travels ; a loss which application could not ...
Page xv
... said that Gray ... says : " I have often wondered what it was that could attach Mr. Gray so strongly to a poet whose genius was so little analo- gous to his own . I must confess I cannot , even in the Dramatic Fragment given us by Mr. Mason ...
... said that Gray ... says : " I have often wondered what it was that could attach Mr. Gray so strongly to a poet whose genius was so little analo- gous to his own . I must confess I cannot , even in the Dramatic Fragment given us by Mr. Mason ...
Page xvi
... ( says Mr. Mason ) was the amiable youth then aware of the short time that he himself would be numbered amongst the living . I shall here insert a very correct and judicious criticism , on a censure made by Johnson of an expression in ...
... ( says Mr. Mason ) was the amiable youth then aware of the short time that he himself would be numbered amongst the living . I shall here insert a very correct and judicious criticism , on a censure made by Johnson of an expression in ...
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