| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile through a gree/i lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my...as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but * At Burnham in Buckinghamshire, N myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that 1 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 31 good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little... | |
| Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have, at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good * At Jtarnbaiu in { as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have, at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the v\Ugar call it a common) all my own, * At Buruhuu in BiKkingtuanhirr. at least as good as so, for I... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...walking when I should ride, .and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have, at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy 1 no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 328 pages
...walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing * At Burnham, in Buckinghamshire. in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing * At Burnham, in Buckinghamshire. in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 334 pages
...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing * At Burnham, in Buckinghamshire. in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains...precipices ; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much ahove the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff; but just such hills as people... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...call it a common) all my own, at least as good as K>, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It isa little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains,... | |
| 1840 - 488 pages
...latter thus describes his favourite resort, in the neighbourhood of Stoke Pogis, Bucks: — "I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that,... | |
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