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| Genre/Form: | Correspondence |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Thomas Gray; John Lydgate; Plato.; Aristophanes.; Norton Nicholls; Carl von Linné |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Gray; William Mason; Thomas James Mathias |
| OCLC Number: | 1657840 |
| Notes: | The "Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Gray" (v. 1, p. 131-493) consists largely of his letters. |
| Description: | 2 v. fronts. (v. 1: port.) pl., facsims. 39 x 29.5 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. Poems. Memoirs [including letters] Two translations of Gray's Elegy, the Latin by Messrs. Anstey and Roberts--the Greek by W. Cooke. Letter on the death of N. Nicholls [by T.J. Mathias] Appendix: Letters to Hon. Horace Walpole.--v. 2. Extracts: Metrum, observations on English metre; on the pseudo-rhythmus; on rhyme; and the poems of Lydgate. Extracts--poetical--miscellaneous--classical [including notes on Aristophanes] Extracts geographical, relating to some parts of India and of Persia. Some account of the Dialogues and the Epistles of Plato. Appendix: Some illustrations of the Systema naturae of Linnaeus. Postscript by the editor. |
| Responsibility: | to which are subjoined extracts philological, poetical and critical from the author's original manuscripts, selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias. |
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- Gray, Thomas, -- 1716-1771 -- Correspondence.
- Poets, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence.
- English language -- Versification.
- Lydgate, John, -- 1370?-1451? -- Versification.
- Plato.
- Aristophanes.
- Nicholls, Norton, -- 1742?-1809.
- Linné, Carl von, -- 1707-1778.
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