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Title

The poetical works of Thomas Gray LL.B., late professor of modern languages in the University of Cambridge : with some account of his life and writings; the whole carefully revised; and illustrated by notes, original and selected; to which are annexed, poems written by, addressed to, or in memory of Mr. Gray; several of which were never before collected.

Author

Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.

Publication

London : Printed for J. Scatcherd, 1799.

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Additional Authors

Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848.

Description

lv, 186 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port., plates; 17 cm.

Subject

• Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Poetry
• Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Wills

Note

• Frontispiece (portrait of Thomas Gray) inscribed: Drawn by E.F. Burney. Engraved by J. Collyer; "Ode on the spring" inscribed: E.F. Burney delt. W. Angus sculpt.; leaf with p. 48 inscribed: J. Neagle Sct.; [leaves for p. 16, 91 without inscriptions]
• Head- and tailpieces.

Contents

• Some account of the life and writings of Mr. Thomas Gray. The last will and testament of Mr. Thomas Gray. Poems of Mr. Gray: Ode on the spring. On the death of a favourite cat. On a distant prospect of Eton College. Ode to adversity. The progress of poesy. The bard. Ode for music. The fatal sisters. The descent of Odin. The triumphs of Owen. The death of Hoel. Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West. Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke. Epitaph on Sir William Williams. Elegy written in a country church-yard. --
• Supplement: comprising the posthumous poems and fragments of Mr. Gray: Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude / [left unfinished by Mr. Grey; with additions, in Italics, by the late Rev. Mr. Mason] Translation of a passage from Statius. Fragment of a Latin poem. Ode written inthe album of the Grande Chartreuse, in Dauphiny, August 1741. The first scene of a tragedy, designed in 1742, by Mr. Gray, on the subject of the death of Agrippina. Hymn to ignorance, a fragment. The alliance of education and government, a fragment. A long story. Stanzas to Mr. Bentley, a fragment. Sketch of his own character. The four following poems, attributed to Mr. Gray, were never before collected: Lyric stanzas. Epigram. Stanzas suggested by a view, in 1766, of the seat and ruins of a deceased nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent. Jemmy Twitcher; or, The Cambridge courtship. --
• Poems: addressed to, and in memory of, Mr. Gray. [except the second and sixth, none of these were ever before collected.]: To Mr. Gray, upon his odes / by David Garrick, Esq. Ode to Mr. Gray, on the backwardness of spring / by the late Mr. Richard West. Ode on the death of Mr. Gray. Fragment of an ode on the death of Mr. Gray. Stanzas on the death of Mr. Gray / by a Lady. The tears of genius: an ode to the memory of Mr. Gray / by J. T-----. Epitaph on Mr. Gray's monument, in Westminster Abbey.

Call Number

NCL (Gray, T. Poetical works. 1799)

OCLC

7684735

Author

Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.

Title

The poetical works of Thomas Gray LL.B., late professor of modern languages in the University of Cambridge : with some account of his life and writings; the whole carefully revised; and illustrated by notes, original and selected; to which are annexed, poems written by, addressed to, or in memory of Mr. Gray; several of which were never before collected.

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Scatcherd, 1799.

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Added Author

Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848. Illustrator

Research Call Number

NCL (Gray, T. Poetical works. 1799)