Letters of Thomas GraySmall, Maynard & Company, 1899 - 222 sayfa |
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Sayfa xv - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining: not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Sayfa 6 - ... dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
Sayfa xxiv - I had discovered a thing very little known, which is,- that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You me a green gosling! I was at the same age (very near) as wise as you, and yet I never discovered this (with full evidence and conviction 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...
Sayfa 138 - Sermons,' with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them ? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
Sayfa 143 - He eat them all at one dinner; but his fate was a Turbot on Trinity Sunday, of which he left little for the company besides bones. He had not been hearty all the week ; but after this sixth fish he never held up his head more, and a violent looseness carried him off. — They say he made a very good end.
Sayfa 161 - We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas.
Sayfa 36 - And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Sayfa 77 - As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they 76 desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me ; and therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without . my name...
Sayfa 24 - ... that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day: You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it. I am well persuaded St. Bruno was a man of no common genius, to choose such a situation for his retirement; and perhaps should have been a disciple of his, had I been born in his time.
Sayfa 35 - Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...