OF HIS OWN CHARACTER. [This was written in 1761, and was found in one of his Po Books.] Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to portune; He had not the method of making a fortune Could love, and could hate, so was thought s what odd; NO VERY GREAT WIT, HE BELIEV'D IN A C od of making a fortune: I hate, so was thought some TT, HE BELIEV'D IN A GOD. me did not desire, tate to Charles Townshend LYRIC STANZ THYRSIS, when he left me, In the Spring he would retur Ah! what means the op'ning f And the bud that decks the t 'Twas the nightingale that sung 'Twas the lark that upward spr L for the eccentricities of his character, as for h A Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an et presented it to Mr. Gray, who wrote under it THUS Tophet look'd; so grin fiend, Whilst frighted prelates bow'd, Our mother-church, with half-av SEAT AND RUINS OF A DECEASED NOBLEM AT KINGSGATE, KENT. OLD, and abandon'd by each venal friend Here Hd took the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighb'ring Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoic And mariners, though shipwreck'd, fear to Here reigns the blust'ring North and blighting No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Art he invokes new terrors still to bring. |