Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and WritingsJ. F. Dove, 1820 - 527 páginas |
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Página 150
... genteel as her- self . You bid me find fault ; I am afraid I cannot ; however I will try . The first stanza ( if what you say to me in it did not make me think it the best ) I should call the worst of the five ( except ( 150 )
... genteel as her- self . You bid me find fault ; I am afraid I cannot ; however I will try . The first stanza ( if what you say to me in it did not make me think it the best ) I should call the worst of the five ( except ( 150 )
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... stanza is full as good as the second and third ; the last line bold , but I think not too bold . Now , as to myself and my translation , pray do not call names . I never saw Broukhusius in my life . It is Scaliger who attempted to range ...
... stanza is full as good as the second and third ; the last line bold , but I think not too bold . Now , as to myself and my translation , pray do not call names . I never saw Broukhusius in my life . It is Scaliger who attempted to range ...
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... already apprized who these ladies were ; the two descriptions are prettily contrasted ; and nothing can be more happily turned than the com- pliment to Lady Cobham in the eighth stanza . F The first came cap - a - pee from ( 211 )
... already apprized who these ladies were ; the two descriptions are prettily contrasted ; and nothing can be more happily turned than the com- pliment to Lady Cobham in the eighth stanza . F The first came cap - a - pee from ( 211 )
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... stanza is more pure , and consequently more obvious . It might have been written by Prior , and the wit at the end is much in his best manner . g Here fancy is again uppermost , and soars as high on her comic , as on ano- ther occasion ...
... stanza is more pure , and consequently more obvious . It might have been written by Prior , and the wit at the end is much in his best manner . g Here fancy is again uppermost , and soars as high on her comic , as on ano- ther occasion ...
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... stanza is of the sort where wit rather than fancy prevails , consequently much in Prior's manner . n Hagged , i . e . the face of a witch or hag ; the epithet hagard has been sometimes mistaken , as conveying the same idea ; but it ...
... stanza is of the sort where wit rather than fancy prevails , consequently much in Prior's manner . n Hagged , i . e . the face of a witch or hag ; the epithet hagard has been sometimes mistaken , as conveying the same idea ; but it ...
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