CONTENTS. 3 7 82 Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude 97 Translation of a Passage from Statius Ode written in the Album of the Grande Char- treuse, in Dauphiny, August 1741 The First Scene of a Tragedy . . IR. GRAY. . 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, |
