 | Questions and answers - 1871 - 632 pages
...extract from a letter by Gray the poet a joke or not ? — • "Our friend Dr. (one of its [Cambridge] nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five fine mackarel (large and full of roc) in his belly. He ate them all at one dinner; but bis fare was a turbot... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...fear I must come to town much sooner. Cambridge is a delight ofn place now there is nobody in it. 1 do believe you would like it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants. It is they, I assure you, who get it an ill name and spoil it." So far Gray ; but some of the residents, MA's of forty years'... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 432 pages
...College. — [Mason. ] He was the husband of the lady whose Epitaph in verse Gray wrote. — [Ed.] is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....that get it an ill name and spoil all. Our friend Dr. Chapman (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1885 - 434 pages
...scene, it must be confessed) till Michaelmas ; but I fear I must come to town much sooner. Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it. 1 do believe you would like it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants. It is they, I assure you,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English letters - 1899 - 268 pages
...scene, it must be confessed) till Michaelmas ; but I fear I must come to town much sooner. Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....that get it an ill name and spoil all. Our friend Dr. Chapman (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English letters - 1899 - 266 pages
...be confessed) till Michaelmas ; but I fear I must come to town much sooner. Cambridge is a delight s of a place, now there is nobody in it. I do believe...that get it an ill name and spoil all. Our friend Dr. Chapman (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 366 pages
...scene, it must be confessed) till Michaelmas ; but I fear I must come to town much sooner.^ Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it. 1 I do believe you would like it, if you knew what it was Tvithout inhabitants. It is they, I assure... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - Cambridge (England) - 1912 - 246 pages
...at the creation of this ridiculous Mamamouchi. PEMBROKE HALL, Aug. 12, 1760. From Tnomas CAMBRIDGE is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....that get it an ill name and spoil all. Our friend Dr. Chapman (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - Cambridge (England) - 1912 - 244 pages
...at the creation of this ridiculous Mamamouchi. PEMBROKE HALL, Aug. 12, 1760. From Thomas CAMBRIDGE is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it. I Oray to d o believe you would like it, if you knew what it was without r ' e inhabitants. It is they,... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...scene, it must be confessed) till Michaelmas; but I fear I must come to town much sooner. Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five fine mackarel (large and full of roe) in his belly. He eat them all at one dinner ; but his fate was a turbot... | |
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Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it. I do believe you would like it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants. 
