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expired
without a groan. It was also r [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]rkable that his death took place much in
the manner which he himself had wished; and that the last o?ces were
rendered himnot in his own houseor by the hand of kindred a
?ection
but in an inn and by strangers.
Sir Walter Scott
Lives of the Novelists
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laurence sterne??
Thomas Gray
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1716–1771
Gray had a morbid fear of ?re.His rooms at Pembroke CollegeCambridge
where he was a Fellow––he had previously been at Peterhouse––were on the
second?oorand he arranged to have a rope-ladder installed with an iron bar
outside his window to hold it:
His precautions were not unobservedand in fact invited the practical
joke which Williams and Forrester and their friend Lord Percevala
fellow-commoner of Magdalenedecided to play upon him. Its outcome
was described in a letter written to a friend shortly afterwards by the
Reverend John Sharpa Fellow of Corpus.
Mr Grayour elegant Poetand delicate Fellow Commoner of Peterhousehas
just removed to Pembroke-hallin resentment of some usage he met with at the
former place. The case is much talked ofand is this. He is much afraid of
?re
and was a great su?erer in Cornhill; he has ever since kept a ladder of ropeyilai:
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