 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
 | James Thorne - London Region (England) - 1876 - 456 pages
...and imagery of the Elegy. And we have his own testimony that the poem was finished at Stoke :— " I have been here at Stoke a few days (where I shall continue я good part of the summer) ; and having put an end to ж thing, whose beginning you have seen long... | |
 | James Thorne - London Region (England) - 1876 - 430 pages
...poem was finished at Stoke : — " I иате been here at Stoke a few days (where I shall continue a good part of the summer) ; and having put an end to a tiling, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it to you. You will I hope look... | |
 | Francis George Heath - Burnham Beeches (Buckinghamshire) - 1879 - 136 pages
...of June, 1750, Gray wrote (and it is believed he could only have been writing of his ' Elegy ') : ' I have been here at Stoke a few days (where I shall continue a good part of the summer), and, having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Authors, English - 1882 - 252 pages
...however, as lie 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... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...finished, and received the fast corrections of the author. Writing to Walpole, June 10th, 1750, he says, " I have been here at Stoke a few days (where I shall continue a good part of the summer) and having put an end ti a thing whose beginning you have seen long ago,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 430 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, I immediately send it you. You will, I hope, look upon... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English language - 1884 - 436 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, I immediately send it you. You will, I hope, look upon... | |
 | Bibliography - 1884 - 396 pages
...1750; for Gray, writing to his friend Horace Walpole on the i7th of that month from Stoke, says, " 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... | |
 | New England - 1898 - 842 pages
...the poem at Stoke in June of the following year; and in sending a copy to Horace Waipole he wrote: "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... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1885 - 580 pages
...until 175°, when Gray sent it to Walpole with a letter, (dated June 12, 1750,) in which he says : I have been here at Stoke a few days, (where I shall continue agood part of the summer,) and having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago,... | |
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