 I find myself able to write a Catalogue, or to read the Peerage book, or Miller's Gardening Dictionary, and am thankful that there are such employments and such authors in the world. Some people, who hold me cheap for this, are doing perhaps what is not...  The Quarterly Review - Page 421edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...been the chief amusement of my days; and when I would not, or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel myself able to write a Catalogue, or to read the Peerage...well worth while. As to posterity, I may ask, (with some body whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? To make a transition from myself... | |
 | 1821 - 394 pages
...• He wrote it, under its several divisions, .on the blank pages of a pocket atlas. present I feel myself able to write a catalogue, or to read the peerage...while. As to posterity, I may ask, (with somebody whom J have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me ? To make a transition from myself to as poor a subject,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pages
...been the chief amusement of my days; and when 1 would not, or cannot think, 1 dream. At present 1 feel myself able to write a catalogue, or to read the peerage...I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me ? To make a transition from myself to as poor a subject, the tragedy of Agis; I cry to think that it... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...the chief amusement of my days ; and when I would not, or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel myself able to write a catalogue, or to read the Peerage...I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me ? To make a transition from myself to as poor a subject, the tragedy of Agis ; I cry to think that... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...appeared. chief amusement of my days ; and when I would not, or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel myself able to write a catalogue, or to read the Peerage...I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? To make a transition from myself to as poor a subject, the tragedy of Agis ; I cry to think that it... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pages
...been the chief amusement of my days ; and when I would not or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel myself able to write a catalogue, or to read the Peerage...doing perhaps what is not half so well worth while.' His pilgrimage to cathedrals, tombs, and ruins, put him upon investigating the history of Gothic architecture.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...been the chief amusement of my days ; and when I would not or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel Й 8o e = B G =뛯 磉 j ~ ` l /x M...wiݷ o=p [K[<q #N ԯn w[ U ~3ަa q 5 2h His pilgrimage to cathedrals, tombs, and ruins, put him upon investigating the history of Gothic architecture.... | |
 | 1854 - 544 pages
...the chief amusement of my days : and when I would not, or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel myself able to write a Catalogue, or to read the Peerage book, or Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, and am thankful there are such employments and such authors in the world. Some... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 pages
...you and M™ Wharton. CLXIV. To Wharton.3 Cambridge, March 8, 1758. It is indeed for want of spirits, as you suspect, that my studies lie among the Cathedrals,...well worth while. As to posterity, I may ask, (with some body* whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me ? burgh. Walpole tells Montagu, May... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 pages
...been the chief amusement of my days; and when I would not or cannot think, I dream. At present I feel myself able to write a catalogue, or to read the Peerage...there are such employments, and such authors in the 1 [Dec. 19, 1757, Correspondence of Gray and Afason, p. 1 12.] 2 [Sept. 7, 1758, Ibid., p. I60.J world.... | |
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