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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. III. The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake

Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

Sketch of His Own Character

TOO poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;

He had not the method of making a fortune:

Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd;

No very great wit, he believed in a God:

A post or a pension he did not desire,

But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire.