 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, in what form...  Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 203by Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without my name, in what form is most convenient to him, but on his best paper and character; he must...continued beyond them; and the title must be, — Elegy, writ- [30 ten in a Country Church-yard. If he would add a line or two to say it came into his hands... | |
 | William Newnham Chattin Carlton - Elegiac poetry, English - 1925 - 30 pages
...it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy; but without my name, in what form is most convenient for him; but on his...the title must be — "Elegy, written in a Country Church Yard." If he would add a line or two to say it came into his hands by accident, I should like... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 322 pages
...to Walpole. He added further instructions in his letter which was dated Febr. n, 1751: 'He [Dodsley] must correct the press himself, and print it without...be, — Elegy, written in a Country Church-yard.' " When Gray had seen the printed copy, he complained to Walpole that 'Nurse Dodsley has given it a... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 334 pages
...to Walpole. He added further instructions in his letter which was dated Febr. n, 1751: 'He [Dodsley] must correct the press himself, and print it without...be, — Elegy, written in a Country Church-yard.' 8 When Gray had seen the printed copy, he complained to Walpole that 'Nurse Dodsley has given it a... | |
 | 1861 - 590 pages
...the day. He therefore solicited Walpole to get Dodsley to print it immediately, but anonymously, " in what form is most convenient for him, but on his...sense is, in some places, continued beyond them." The scene of the poem is supposed to be the churchyard at Stoke, where the mother of the poet lived... | |
 | Archaeology - 1883 - 358 pages
...the " Elegy " printed, without the author's name, " in what form is most convenient to the printer, but on his best paper and character ; he must correct the press himself, and print it without any intervals between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued without." Accordingly,... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 386 pages
...— sentiment. In consenting to its publication the author wrote to Dodsley, the publisher, in 1751: "Print it without any interval between the stanzas,...the sense is in some places continued beyond them." Accordingly, in the early editions it was printed, not in separated, but in continuous stanzas. 1224... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 600 pages
...his name, and merely with the title " Elegy written in a Country Churchyard." He wishes to have " no interval between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued beyond them." Gray was just thirty-four years of age when this poem was written. GB Chester. SLEEPERS IN CHURCH (5th... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 574 pages
...name, and merely with the title " Elegy written ' in a Country Churchyard." He wishes to have " no interval between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued beyond them." Chester. SLEEPERS IN CHURCH (5 th S. iii. 266.)—In the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine for October, 1829,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 730 pages
...it immediately (which may be done in less than a »eek's time from your copy), but without my name, in what form is most convenient for him, but on his best >aper and character; he must correct the press himself, ind print it without any interval between the... | |
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