CONTENT S. Laft Will and Teftament of Mr. Gray Tears of Genius, an Ode, to the Memory of II - - 25 33 43 51 Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat, drown- ed in a Tub of Gold Fishes A SHORT A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS O F MR. GRA Y. MR. THOMAS GRAY, the subject of this memoir, was born in Cornhill, the twenty-fixth day of December 1716. His grandfather had been a confiderable B fiderable merchant; but his father, Mr. Philip Gray, exercised the trade of a money-scrivener; and being of an indolent difpofition, he did not add to his paternal fortune. He neglected not however, the education of his fon; whom he fent to Eton fchool; where he contracted an intimacy with Mr. Horace Walpole, who is at present so distinguished in the republic of letters, and with Mr. Richard Weft, a young gentleman of uncommon ability, whose father was Lord Chancellor of Ireland. From Eton Mr. Gray, in the year 1734, removed to Cambridge, and was admitted a penfioner of St. Peter's College. Mr. Weft went to study in ChriftChurch College at Oxford; and these ingenious |