Thomas Gray to Richard Stonhewer (12 June 1769) Alexander Huber Editor Thomas Gray Archive
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 Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 497, vol. iii, 1062 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=497 The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, section v, 349 note https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1775/1/349 The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, 3 vols. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-12, letter no. CCCXLVI, vol. iii, 224 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/ToD_1900iii/1/224 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809 Durham, United Kingdom

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 English Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 Ode for Music

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I did not intend the Duke should have heard me till he could not help it. You are desired to make the best excuses you can to his Grace for the liberty I have taken of praising him to his face; but as somebody was necessarily to do this, I did not see why Gratitude should sit silent and leave it to Expectation to sing, who certainly would have sung, and that à gorge deployée upon such an occasion.

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