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' A PSEUDO-HERO OF THE REVOLUTION.• IF it -be a fact, as Carlyle said, that "History is the essence of innumerable biographies," it is very necessary that the :biographies from......

Thomas Gray.t

GRAY probably wrote, and certainly published, fewer verses than any English poet whose work survives and circulates. He wrote much less than any poet who has attained so high a......