CONTENTS

THE BARD

CONTENTS

HYMN TO ADVERSITY

NOTES

CONTENTS

APPENDIX TO NOTES

INDEX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY.

 

 

Thomas Gray, the author of the celebrated Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, was born in Cornhill, London, December 26, 1716. His father, Philip Gray, an exchange broker and scrivener, was a wealthy and nominally respectable citizen, but he treated his family with brutal severity and neglect, and the poet was altogether indebted for the advantages of a learned education to the affectionate care and industry of his mother, whose maiden name was Antrobus, and who, in conjunction with a maiden sister, kept a millinery 

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