 I shall continue good part of the summer); and having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it you.* You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it ; a merit that most of my writings...  Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 197by Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1900 - 438 pages
...from me for writing so seldom, especially as of all people living I know you are the least a friend to letters spun out of one's own brains, with all...good part of the summer) ; and having put an end to a thing,1 whose beginning you have seen long ago,8 I im1 This was the "Elegy in a Country Church-yard."—... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...it, however, as he began it, at Stoke Pogis, giving the last touches to it on the 12th of June, 1750. "Having put an end to a thing whose beginning you have seen long ago," he writes on that day to Horace Walpole, " I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...however, as he began it, at Stoke Pogis, giving the last touches to it on the 1 2th of June, 1750. "Having put an end to a thing whose beginning you have seen long ago," he writes on that day to Horace Walpole, " I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - England - 1906 - 430 pages
...poem at Stoke in June of the following year, and in sending a 116 copy to Horace Walpole he wrote, " Having put an end to a thing whose beginning you have seen so long, I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with... | |
 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 pages
...poem at Stoke in June of the following year, and in sending a 116 copy to Horace Walpole he wrote, " Having put an end to a thing whose beginning you have seen so long, I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with... | |
 | American fiction - 1909 - 550 pages
...on June the twelfth in the next year, he transmitted it with the following note to Horace Walpole : I have been here at Stoke a few days (where I shall...beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it; a merit that most... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 126 pages
...until 1750. Gray sent the poem, when completed, to his friend Horace Walpole, with a letter saying : " Having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it ; a merit that most... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - Authors, American - 1910 - 442 pages
...something to lose and to regret." On the 12th of June, 1750, Gray wrote to his friend, Horace Walpole, — "Having put an end to a thing whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it : a merit that most... | |
 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 pages
...regret." On the 12th of June, 1750, Gray wrote to his friend, Horace Walpole,—"Having put an end toa thing whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it: a merit that most... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - English poetry - 1912 - 336 pages
...years after its commencement he finished his Elegy and sent it to Horace Walpole he wrote with it, " Having put an end to a thing whose beginning you have seen long ago I immediately send it to you. You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it : a merit that most... | |
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