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Gray, Thomas

( 1716 - 1771 )

 

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Kingsgate

Having decided to retire to the fishing hamlet of Kingsgate he spared no expense in building a grandiose residence for himself, Holland House, modelled on Cicero’s villa on the Appian way, and in ornamenting its grounds with sham ruins to which Gray mockingly refers in his verses...

Margate

Staying with a friend at Denton, halfway between Canterbury and Folkestone, he visited Margate in June 1766 but was not impressed...


 

 

   
   
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