 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 are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very...  Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 128by Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - English literature - 1892 - 218 pages
...mother. You may think this obvious and (what you call) a trite observation. . . . You_are a _green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near) as wise...till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago and it seems but as yesterday, and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart." In his letters of condolence,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 350 pages
...this (with full evidence and conviction, I mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago and it seems but as yesterday, and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart." In his letters of condolence, perhaps the most arduous species of all composition, Gray shows the same... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1894 - 382 pages
...gosling ! I was at the same age very near as wise as you; I never discovered this with full evidence—I mean till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago...and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart." So it is in the author's case, he never knew the extent of his misfortune until it was irreparable.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 250 pages
...observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near) as wise as you, and yet 10 I never discovered this (with full evidence and conviction,...too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but yesterday ; and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart. Many a corollary could I draw from... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 252 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near) as wise as you, and yet 10 I never discovered this (with full evidence and conviction, I mean) till it was too late. It is... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pages
...full evidence and conviction, I mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but yesterday ; and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart. Many a corollary could I draw from this axiom for your use (not for my own) but I 15 will leave you the merit of doing it yourself.... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1894 - 318 pages
...more than a single mother. You may think this obvious and what you call a trite observation, You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age very near as wise as you; I never discovered this with full evidence — I mean till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 410 pages
...single mother. ' You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observa' tion. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very ' near)...was too late. It is thirteen 'years ago, . . . and every day I live it sinks deeper into my ' heart." — Gray to Nicholls, Works, vol. ip 482. 3. One... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English letters - 1899 - 268 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near)...discovered this (with full evidence and conviction,! mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but yesterday, and every day I live... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 586 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near)...wise as you, and yet I never discovered this (with fall evidence and conviction, I mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but... | |
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