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The Letters Of Thomas Gray Volume II Including The Correspondence Of Gray And Mason
Author: Thomas Gray

Of the preface to the first volume one English critic has, indeed, said in effect that the editor might possibly be found to have a meaning, if he knew how to make it clear. Of the Appendix the same critic has said again in effect that the public was not at all interested in the question there raided. If this writer could not understand the Pref... more »ace, he certainly could not understand the Appendix otherwise he would have discovered that it deals with a question of morals, and only to that end with minutiae. It may be added that the l This is no question of exact reproduction the phrase is commonly understood. Whether an editor chooses to modernize spelling or not is a matter of very subordinate importance. public cannot follow the details of many an analysis in the reaults of which it may nevertheloss be concerned it was highly indigpant for example when it discovered that it had been devouring margarine instead of butter. With the un- just buttermen d Literature, however numerous and prosperous they may be, the present editor has no ambition to be classed. I had moro to say upon this subject, but I forbear, for, with a sense of relief not unmixed with pain, I have discovered that the offence of which I thought it necessary to clear myself has little or no place in the statute- books of modern criticism. The present voIume contains letters from the beginning of 1758 to the end of 1762, including those of Mason during that period. Gray spent much of his time in London, near the British Museum, busied in researches there, but all the while an amused spectator of current events. Readers will be interested in comparing his account of the coronation of Gcorge III with their own very recent memories, and perhaps even the notes with which I have illustrated the letter of September 24th, 1761, may help them the better to contrast the then and the now. These great occasions bring into focus our otherwise vague estimates of progress in certain of its aspects. They are to the historian what the rarer phenomena of the heavens, the transits of Venus, or the reappearances of comets, are to the astronomer. In both cases the spectacle, after the lapse of centuries, is essentially the same in both cases the infer- ences reach far beyond its limits, and, at every repetition, are of wider scope and import. We still reckon our epochs by our kings The People is the foliage of mankind, The People fluctuates, perishes, revives Kings are the trunks...

ISBN-13: 9781443761406
ISBN-10: 1443761400
Publication Date: 10/6/2008
Pages: 348
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Publisher: Vintage Cookery Books
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