The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With the Life of the Author : [Containing His Odes, Miscellanies]Cooke, 1800 - 71 pages |
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... Himself . EMBELLISHED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS . London : Printed for C. COOKE , No. 17 , Paternoter - Row ; And fold by all the Bookfellers in Great Britain and Ireland . THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS GRAY . CONTAINING HIS ODES Front Cover.
... Himself . EMBELLISHED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS . London : Printed for C. COOKE , No. 17 , Paternoter - Row ; And fold by all the Bookfellers in Great Britain and Ireland . THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS GRAY . CONTAINING HIS ODES Front Cover.
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... himself to the ftudy of the law : but this intention was foon laid aside , upon an invitą- tion given him by Mr. Walpole , to accompany him in his travels abroad ; a fituation highly preferable , in Gray's opinion , to the dry study of ...
... himself to the ftudy of the law : but this intention was foon laid aside , upon an invitą- tion given him by Mr. Walpole , to accompany him in his travels abroad ; a fituation highly preferable , in Gray's opinion , to the dry study of ...
Page xviii
... himself alfo to the study of heraldry , of which he obtained a very competent knowledge , as appears from his Remarks on Saxon Churches , in the introduction to Mr. Bentham's Hiflory of Ely . But the favourite study of Gray , for the ...
... himself alfo to the study of heraldry , of which he obtained a very competent knowledge , as appears from his Remarks on Saxon Churches , in the introduction to Mr. Bentham's Hiflory of Ely . But the favourite study of Gray , for the ...
Page xix
... himself merely as a man of letters ; and though with- out birth , or fortune , or ftation , his defire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman , who read for his amufement . Perhaps it may be faid , What fignifies so ...
... himself merely as a man of letters ; and though with- out birth , or fortune , or ftation , his defire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman , who read for his amufement . Perhaps it may be faid , What fignifies so ...
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... himself folely to ftrictures on words and forms of expreffion ; and Mr. Mafon very pertinently adds , that verbal criticifm is an ordeal which the most perfect compofition cannot pafs without injury . He has alfo fallen under Mr ...
... himself folely to ftrictures on words and forms of expreffion ; and Mr. Mafon very pertinently adds , that verbal criticifm is an ordeal which the most perfect compofition cannot pafs without injury . He has alfo fallen under Mr ...
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