CONTENTS. COMPRISING THE POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude . 97 Translation of a Passage from Statius ..... 103 Fragment of a Latin Poem ............ 105 Ode written in the Album of the Grande Char- treuse, in Dauphiny, August 1741 ...... 112 The First Scene of a Tragedy .......... 116 Hymn to Ignorance ................ 131 The Alliance of Education and Government . 134 A Long Story ................... 140 Stanzas to Mr. Bentley .............. 150 PREFACE. THE Poems of Mr. Gray are here presented to the Public in a more elegant style of Typography than they ever before assumed; but this, it is true, were a very small advantage, if unaccompanied by others better entitled to consideration. Of Poetry which has incurred the imputation of being difficult to comprehend, it seemed not an ill-bestowed labour to revise and establish the punctuation. The Edition by Mr. Mason, in Four Volumes, |