The letters of Thomas Gray, chronologically arranged from the Walpole and Mason collections1827 |
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acquaintance Adieu admire antistrophe appear beautiful believe body Borrowdale called Cambridge Caractacus castle church crags desire Dodsley duke Dunciad elegy Elidurus father Florence Genoa give Gothic Grande Chartreuse Gray Greek hand head hear heard hill honour hope house of York imagine Italy journey Keswick king lady lake least letter live London lord lord Bolingbroke Mason mean miles mind Monody mountains Naples never night obliged passed Pembroke College Pembroke-Hall perhaps Peterhouse Pindaric pleased pleasure poem poetry pope Pray racter rejoice rise river road rock Rome round scene seems seen side Skiddaw sort spirits sure Syphax Tacitus taste tell Teverone thing THOMAS GRAY thought tion town trees vale verses walk WALPOLE WEST WHARTON whole wish wood write
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الصفحة 106 - modern dramatics : But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass: I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph : 1, that am
الصفحة 150 - The verse to which he alludes is this: " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." The last line of which he had at first written thus: •• Awake and faithful to her wonted fires.
الصفحة 106 - one to my understanding. As to matter of style, I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.
الصفحة 88 - I mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but as yesterday, and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart*. Many a corollary could I draw from this axiom for your use, (not for my own) but I will leave you the merit of doing it
الصفحة 17 - sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. In this situation I often converse with my Horace, aloud -too, that is talk to you, but 1 do not remember that I
الصفحة 125 - up Skiddaw, but I thought it better employed; it was perfectly serene, and hot as midsummer. In the evening 1 walked alone down to the lake by the side of Crow-park after sunset, and saw the solemn colouring of night draw on, the last gleam of sun-shine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters,
الصفحة 106 - enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatives: nay, sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakspeare and Milton have been great creators this way ; and no one more licentious than Pope or Dryden, who perpetually borrow expressions from the former. Let me give you some instances from
الصفحة 136 - he is really in simplicity a child, and loves every body he meets with: he reads little or nothing; writes abundance, and that with a design to make his fortune by it. My best compliments to Mrs. Wharton and your family: does that name include any body I am not yet acquainted with
الصفحة 55 - gutter, which they call goscia. Mont Cenis, I confess, carries the permission mountains have of being frightful rather too far; and its horrors were accompanied with too much danger to give one time to reflect upon their beauties. There is a family of the Alpine monsters I have mentioned, upon its very top, that in the
الصفحة 122 - overturned between York and Edinburgh. I heard three people, sensible middle-aged men (when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby), talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high road) to see the Pretender and the Highlanders as they passed. I can say no more for