Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings |
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Page 32
... grace and an Augustan urbanity that amazes me : your Greek too is per- fect in its kind . And here let me wonder that a man , longè Græcorum doctissimus , should be at a loss for the verse and chapter whence my epigram is taken . I am ...
... grace and an Augustan urbanity that amazes me : your Greek too is per- fect in its kind . And here let me wonder that a man , longè Græcorum doctissimus , should be at a loss for the verse and chapter whence my epigram is taken . I am ...
Page 55
... grace enough : for instance , the other evening we happened to be got together in a company of eighteen people , men and women of the best fashion here , at a garden in the town to walk ; when one of the ladies be- thought herself of ...
... grace enough : for instance , the other evening we happened to be got together in a company of eighteen people , men and women of the best fashion here , at a garden in the town to walk ; when one of the ladies be- thought herself of ...
Page 145
... grace to the composition ; in the same manner as Poussin gave a beauty to his pictures by his knowledge in the ancient propor- tions : but should he , or any other painter , carry the imitation too far , and neglect that best of mo ...
... grace to the composition ; in the same manner as Poussin gave a beauty to his pictures by his knowledge in the ancient propor- tions : but should he , or any other painter , carry the imitation too far , and neglect that best of mo ...
Page 158
... grace ( to borrow one of his own expressions ) on the Ode on a distant prospect of Eton , and on that to Adversity ; both of them written the August following : for as both these poems abound with pathos , those who have feeling hearts ...
... grace ( to borrow one of his own expressions ) on the Ode on a distant prospect of Eton , and on that to Adversity ; both of them written the August following : for as both these poems abound with pathos , those who have feeling hearts ...
Page 162
... grace , and leaves the ear fully satisfied . Mr. Gray could not fail to ob- serve , 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 ...
... grace , and leaves the ear fully satisfied . Mr. Gray could not fail to ob- serve , 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 ...
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