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 something 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.

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END OF GRAY'S POEMS.

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THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

TOBIAS SMOLLETT.


THE

LIFE OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT.

The combination of a great writer and a small poet, in one and the
same person, is not uncommon. With not a few, while other, and severer
branches of study are the laborious task of the day, poetry is the