The British Poets Grays Letters Poems

Author : Thomas Gray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483424173
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Gray's Letters and Poems written by Thomas Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gray's Letters and Poems: With a Life of the Author But the favourite study of Gray, for the last two years of his life, was natural history, which he ra ther resumed than began, as he had acquired some knowledge of botany in early life, while he was un der the tuition of his uncle Antrobus. He wrote co pious rflhrginal notes to the works of Linnaeus, and other writers in the three kingdoms of nature and Mr. Mason further observes, that, excepting pure mathematics, and the studies dependent on that sci ence, there was hardly any part of human learning in which he had not acquired a competent skill in most of them a'consummate mastery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.