SONNE T.

A LONELY Man he was, from whom these lays
Flow'd in his cloister'd musings: He in scorn
Held them, the unfeeling multitude, who born
For deeds of nobler purpose, their ripe days
Waste amidst fraudful industry, to raise
Inglorious wealth.— But He, life's studious morn
Gave to the Muse, so best might he adorn
His thoughtful brow with never-dying bays.
And well the Muse repaid him. She hath given
An unsubstantial world of richer fee;

High thoughts, unchanging visions, that the leaven
Of earth partake not; Rich then must he be,
Who of this cloudless world, this mortal heaven,
Possesseth in his right the Sovereignty.

CONTENTS.

MEMOIR OF GRAY, by the Rev. J. Mitford
Appendix to the Memoir

POEMS.

Ode. On the Spring

of Gold Fishes

Ode. On the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub

Ode. On a Distant Prospect of Eton College

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10

Hymn to Adversity

17

The Progress of Poesy

22

The Bard

38

Ode for Music

61

The Fatal Sisters

70

The Vegtam's Kivitha; or, the Descent of Odin'

The Fragment of a Tragedy, on the Subject of the Death

Impromptu, on the Seat of a deceased Nobleman

The Candidate.

143

153

155

156

157

159

161

163

Latin Lines, addressed to Mr. West, from Genoa

188

Elegiac Verses, occasioned by the sight of the Plains

where the Battle of Trebia was fought

188

Carmen ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum

189

Fragment of a Latin Poem on the Gaurus

192

A Farewell to Florence

196

Imitation of an Italian Sonnet or Signior Abbate Buon-

delmonte

197

Alcaic Ode

198

Part of an Heroic Epistle from Sophonisba to Masinissa

De Principiis Cogitandi, Liber Primus

200

204

Liber Quartus

Greek Epigram

218

EXTRACTS.

In Bacchæ Furentis Statuam

In Alexandrum, ære effictum

In Medeæ Imaginem, Nobile Timomachi Opus

In Niobes Statuam

A Nymph offering a Statue of herself to Venus

In Amorem Dormientem

THE LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY.

BY JOHN MITFORD.

THOMAS GRAY, the subject of the present narrative, was the fifth child of Mr. Philip Gray, a respectable citizen and money-scrivener in London. His grandfather was also a considerable merchant in that place. The maiden name of his mother was Dorothy Antrobus. Thomas was born in Cornhill, the 26th of December, 1716; and was the only one of twelve children who survived. The rest died in their infancy, from suffocation, produced by a fullness of blood; and he owed his life to a memorable instance of the love and courage of his mother, who removed the paroxysm, which attacked him, by opening a vein with her own hand: an instance of affection that seems to have been most tenderly preserved by him through his after life, repaid with care and attention, and remembered when the object of his filial solicitudes could no longer claim them. Mason informs us, "that Gray seldom mentioned his mother without a sigh."

He was educated at Eton, under the protection of Mr. Antrobus, his maternal uncle, who was at

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