 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1915 - 446 страници
...field, yet he continues still to regale his Ears & Nose with their comfortable Noise and Stink ; he holds me mighty cheap I perceive for walking, when I should ride, & reading, when I should hunt : my comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1916 - 480 страници
...own." There is a significant passage in one of his early letters to Horace Walpole 0737): "! havei at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices.... | |
 | Margaret Coult - 1917 - 458 страници
...dogs take up every chair in the house, so I am forced to stand at this present writing. . . . s He holds me mighty cheap, I perceive, for walking when...lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own,0 at least as good as so, jo for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 страници
...him to Walpole in September, 1737. The wood described is that containing the famous Burnham beeches : "I have at the distance of half a mile through a green...vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices.... | |
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...interesting letter serves also to explain to us the lines towards the conclusion of the Elegy. He writes : My comfort amidst all this is that I have at the distance of half-a-mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good... | |
 | Gordon S. Maxwell - 1924 - 350 страници
...scene as can be found in England, Gray loved to wander ; and of these woods he writes to Walpole : "I have at the distance of half a mile, through a...vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains. Both vale and... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 страници
...field, yet he continues still to regale his ears and nose with their comfortable noise and stink. He holds me mighty cheap, I perceive, for walking when I should ride, and reading when I should mnt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 страници
...interesting letter serves also to explain to us the lines towards the conclusion of the Elegy. He writes : My comfort amidst all this is that I have at the distance of half-a-mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2004 - 1220 страници
...ghettos would reveal the dangers of regarding the United States as the Kingdom come. 36 THE ROMANTIC MOOD "I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest," wrote Thomas Gray to his friend Horace Wai pole in 1736, about six years before he began his famous... | |
 | Frederic Mansel Reynolds - 2006 - 442 страници
...it in a letter to Horace Walpole, written in the year 1737, nearly a century ago: "I have," hesaya, "at the distance of half a mile, through " a green...vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least " as good as so, for I spy no human being in it but myself. It is a little '' chaos of mountains and precipices;... | |
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My comfort amidst all this is", that i have, at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. 
