The letters; with important additions and corrections from his own manuscripts selected and edited by the Rev. John MitfordJ. Mawman, 1816 |
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... like most other ancient people , are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds , * At Burnham , in Buckinghamshire . And as they bow their hoary tops relate , In 18 Country Meets with Mr Southern, the Dramatic Poet.
... like most other ancient people , are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds , * At Burnham , in Buckinghamshire . And as they bow their hoary tops relate , In 18 Country Meets with Mr Southern, the Dramatic Poet.
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... wind - mill , a crucifix , or a Virgin Mary dressed in flowers , and a sarcenet robe ; one sees not many people or carriages on the road ; now and then indeed you meet a strolling friar , a countryman with his great muff , or a woman ...
... wind - mill , a crucifix , or a Virgin Mary dressed in flowers , and a sarcenet robe ; one sees not many people or carriages on the road ; now and then indeed you meet a strolling friar , a countryman with his great muff , or a woman ...
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... before . The grapes were then perfectly ripe , and still continue the best I ever eat in England . October 9th , it began to rain , and we have had showers every day VOL . II . 21 since , with brisk winds in the S. and S. 241.
... before . The grapes were then perfectly ripe , and still continue the best I ever eat in England . October 9th , it began to rain , and we have had showers every day VOL . II . 21 since , with brisk winds in the S. and S. 241.
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Thomas Gray, John Mitford. since , with brisk winds in the S. and S. W .; to - day it is in the North , clear sunshine , but cold , and a little wintry and so ends my Georgick in prose . Excuse me if I had nothing better to send you ; it ...
Thomas Gray, John Mitford. since , with brisk winds in the S. and S. W .; to - day it is in the North , clear sunshine , but cold , and a little wintry and so ends my Georgick in prose . Excuse me if I had nothing better to send you ; it ...
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... winds , and at the distance of five or six miles , a circle of hills well wooded , and with various objects crowning them , that close the prospect . Out of the town on one side of it , rises a rock that might remind one of your rocks ...
... winds , and at the distance of five or six miles , a circle of hills well wooded , and with various objects crowning them , that close the prospect . Out of the town on one side of it , rises a rock that might remind one of your rocks ...
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Page 129 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
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Page 497 - I will be candid (for you seem to be so with me), and avow to you, that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because I like it ; and because I like myself better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot.
Page 515 - Letters. Poor man ! he was always wishing for money, for fame, and other distinctions; and his whole philosophy consisted in living against his will in retirement, and in a place which his taste had adorned; but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to see and commend it : his correspondence is about nothing eke but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen, who wrote verses too.
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Page 459 - that if there was any excellence in his own numbers, he had learned it wholly from that great poet ' ; and writing to Beattie afterwards he recurs to Dryden, whom Beattie, he thought, did not honour enough as a poet : 'Remember Dryden,' he writes, 'and be blind to all his faults.