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The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse (1885)
The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse - 1885 Author:Thomas Gray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and how utterly he forgot all the beauties ? Surely the grossest taste is better than such a sort of delicacy. The invasion goes on as quietly as if we believ... more »ed every Frenchman that set his foot on English ground would die on the spot, like a toad in Ireland; nobody but I and Fobus are in a fright about it: by the way, he goes to church, not for the invasion, but ever since his sister Castlecomer1 died, who was the last of the brood. Moralise upon the death of my Lady Essex,2 and do write to me soon, for I am ever yours. At Mr. Jauncey's, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury. I have not a frank in the world, nor have I time to send to Mr. Fraser. II.TO THE REV. WILLIAM PALGRAVE. London, July 24, 1759. I AM now settled in my new territories commanding Bedford Gardens, and all the fields as far as High- gate and Hampstead, with such a concourse of moving pictures as would astonish you; so rus-in-urbe-ish, 1 Sister of the Duke of Newcastle. Frances, second daughter of Lord Pelham, married Christoper Wandesford, Viscount Castlecomer; she died in 1756. Walpole, in a MS. note of his, which I possess, says, "The Duke of Newcastle is afraid of spirits, and never durst lie in a room alone 1 This is literally true."[Mit.] 2 Lady Essex died in childbirth, July 19, 1759. She was daughter of Sir Charles Han bury Williams, K.B., by Lady Frances, daughter of Thomas, Earl Coningsby.[Mit.] that I believe I shall stay here, except little excursions and vagaries, for a year to come. What though I am separated from the fashionable world by broad St . Giles's, and many a dirty court and alley, yet here is air, and sunshine, and quiet, however, to comfort you: I shall confess that I am basking with heat all the summer, and I suppose shall be blown down all the winter, besides being...« less