The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence with Several Eminent Literary Characters : to which are Added, Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Volumen2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; J. Walker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; J. Murray and J. Booker, 1807 |
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... leave to tell my own story first , because Historians differ . Massinissa was the son of Gala King of the Massyli ; and , when very young at the head of his father's army , gave a most signal over- throw to Syphax , King of the ...
... leave to tell my own story first , because Historians differ . Massinissa was the son of Gala King of the Massyli ; and , when very young at the head of his father's army , gave a most signal over- throw to Syphax , King of the ...
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... leaves the ear fully satisfied . Mr. Gray could not fail to observe , and of course to aim at this happy effect of Elisions in a concluding Line ; of which the present Poem , in particular , affords indubitable and and abundant proofs ...
... leaves the ear fully satisfied . Mr. Gray could not fail to observe , and of course to aim at this happy effect of Elisions in a concluding Line ; of which the present Poem , in particular , affords indubitable and and abundant proofs ...
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... leaves you to extri- cate him as well as you can . Thirdly , he has suffered vastly from the transcribblers , as all authors of great brevity necessarily must . Fourthly and lastly , he has * Thucydides , L. vii . abundance of fine ...
... leaves you to extri- cate him as well as you can . Thirdly , he has suffered vastly from the transcribblers , as all authors of great brevity necessarily must . Fourthly and lastly , he has * Thucydides , L. vii . abundance of fine ...
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... leave a name behind them . " . I find also among these papers a single couplet much too beauti- ful to be lost , though the place where he meant to introduce it can- not be ascertained ; it must , however , have made a part of some ...
... leave a name behind them . " . I find also among these papers a single couplet much too beauti- ful to be lost , though the place where he meant to introduce it can- not be ascertained ; it must , however , have made a part of some ...
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... reasons too obvious to insist upon , I shall beg leave to preface it with my own idea of the author's peculiar vein of humour ; which , with my notes on the piece itself , may perhaps account in some sort for the variety of opi- 3 75.
... reasons too obvious to insist upon , I shall beg leave to preface it with my own idea of the author's peculiar vein of humour ; which , with my notes on the piece itself , may perhaps account in some sort for the variety of opi- 3 75.
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