The Letters Of Thomas Gray: Including The Correspondence Of Gray & Mason, Volume 2 - Couverture rigide
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Preliminaiv. Corouation of George III. Gray srelatione with hia jonioTB at Peterhonse and Pembroke. Lord Strathtnoreand the Ljoua William Palgrave. Norton Nicho Us. Ma oD. de Bonatetten. Wharton. I HOPE that I liave acknowledged in the notes to this Tolnme my obligations to my sereral correepondenta, but I mast not omit to mention tiie help which I have received from Mr. Walter Jerrold and my son, Mr. Duncan Tovey, vrho have made extracts for me from irorks of reference to which I had no direct access. From Mr. Henry Davis, of the Camera Club, I have received several very interesting communications, of which I have made or shall make use. I ought to have recorded in vol. i. my debt to Dr. Q. Birkbeck Hill; and now to the regret of all who have profited by his services to eighteenth-century literature he rests from his labours, and I am compelled mutae vana ha cjactare favillae. This edition, as far as it has gone, has been favourably received, especially in the United States. 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 ef Eect) that the public was not at all interested in the question there raised. I this writer conld not understand the Preface, he certainly could not understand the A ppendix; 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 This is no question of exact leproductjon ae the phrase ia commonly understood. Whether an editor chooaea to modernize epelling or not is a matter of very Bnhordiikat importance. i7P cihy Gt.
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