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Roberts's, Gray asks Mason to procure

him lodgings at, ii. 251, 284.
Robertson, Dr. William, author of Life
of Charles V., Gray sups with him,
iii. 209.

History of Mary Stuart and her Son,

ii. 396.

Robinson, Rev. Wm., Impromptu on
Lord Holland's house, written by
Gray at his rectory of Denton, i.
135.

at Cambridge, ii. 163.
biographical note on, iii. 15.
Gray makes a list of wild plants
native to the neighbourhood of
Denton, iii. 15.

his marriage to Miss Richardson, iii.
57, 63.

proceeds to Naples for his honey-
moon, iii. 57.

Gray hopes to see him in many new
lights, iii. 161.

Gray hopes to be better known to
Mrs. Robinson, iii. 162.

visited by Gray at Denton, iii. 237,

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Roman Senate, Chapman's Essay on the,
ii. 163.

Romances, purpose of, i. 338.
Romans, foundation of their religion,
ii. 173.

Ronsard's Art of Poetry, reference to,
i. 333.

Roper, Mr., his opinion of The Odes,
ii. 330.

Ross, John, Bishop of Exeter, ii. 193.
his Epistles of Tully, ii. 193.
Ross, Mr., of Cambridge, reference to,
ii. 232-233.

Ross, Mr., murder of, iii. 339.
Ross, Dr., obtains the living of Frome,
iii. 32.

Gray remembers his kind invitation
and in better days hopes to accept
it, iii. 161.

his contentment, iii. 161.
said to be made Dean of Ely, iii.335,337.
succeeds Dr. Law as prebend of Dur-
ham, iii. 338.

Rousseau, his characters do not inter-
est Gray, ii. 329.

Gray has not seen, ii. 389.

his Nouvelle Heloise, Walter Savage
Landor on, iii. 79; Mason and
Hurd admire it, iii. 83.

everybody that has children should
read his Emile, iii. 151.

Gray sets his religious discourses at
nought, iii. 152.

resides near Neufchâtel, iii. 174.
publishes at the Hague and realises
considerable sums, iii. 174.
venerated by the people of his dis-
trict, iii. 174.

his Lettres de la Montagne, except the
Contrat Social, of the dullest, iii.
187-188, 192.

in Derbyshire with Mr. Davenport,
iii. 243.

quarrels with David Hume, iii. 243.
quits England, iii. 271.

writes letters to the Lord Chancellor
and Mr. Conway, iii. 271.

Voltaire's Guerre de Geneve a satire
on, iii 271.

Rovezzano, Beneditto da, painter and
architect, i. 320.

Rowe, Mrs., letters of the dead to the
living, ii. 6.

Rowe, Nicholas, poet laureate, his
flowers of eloquence, ii. 167.
reference to, i. 345.

origin of his ballad of Colin's Com-
plaint, ii. 367.

Rowley, Mr., insulted by an Irish
mob, iii. 26.

Royal family, their frequent visits in
society, iii. 89.
Royston, Lord (second Earl of Hard-
wick), his State Papers, iii. 6.
Russia, Account of, by Lord Whitworth,
printed at Walpole's Twickenham
press, ii. 373.

MS. purchased from Mr. Zolman's
library and given by R. O. Cam-
bridge, Esq., ii. 373.
Rutherford, Dr. Thomas, mathema-
tician, ii. 163.

candidate for the Mastership of St.
John's, iii. 190.
Rutherford, Mrs., her opinion of
Mason's Elegy V., iii. 139.

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Law-officers declare him amenable to
court-martial, iii. 28.

his trial and demeanour: the result,
iii. 31, 34, 35.

Sade, Abbé, his Petrarch, iii. 235.
St. Andre, Dr. Nathaniel, who married
Lady Betty Molyneux, resides at
Southampton, iii. 175-176.

St. Augustine, hymn of, its rhyme, i.
361.

St. Bruno, his retirement at Char-
treuse, ii. 36, 45.

St. Cecilia's Day, remarks on Dryden's
Ode on,
i. 36.
Dryden's Ode compared with Pope's,
i. 36.

St. Cloit, Pierre de, his joint poem of
La Vie d'Alexandre, i. 357.
St. Francis, his early attempt to write
an ode without rhyme, i. 344.
St. Germain, Count, ex-French general,
his visit to England, iii. 50-51.
St. Giles, broad, reference to, iii. 4.
St. Helen's, Fitzherbert, Lord, his
recollections of Gray and the great
respect held for the poet at the
university, iii. 385.

a pensioner of St. John's College, iii.

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Sepulchre's Chapel, York Minster,
Gray's attempt to identify its site,
iii. 140-144.

Salisbury music - meetings, reference
to, iii. 343.

Sandby, Paul, R.A., exhibits at the
first exhibition of artists, iii. 65.
biographical note, iii. 65.
preparing a great picture of Snowdon.
iii. 65, 68.

Sandwich, John, Earl of, squib on, i.
131.

his remark to Cradock on Gray's
aversion to himself, i. 131.

his boyish days, ii. 115.

and the High Stewardship of Cam-
bridge, iii. 168.

Dr. Brook, Mr. Brockett, and Dr.
Long, his agents, iii. 168-171.
hires a scribbler to write a weekly
paper, the Scrutator, iii. 171.
whatever seems against him is popu-
lar, iii. 201.

engages the Bishop of Chester's in-
terest, iii. 201.

joint postmaster, iii. 294.
Sangallo, Bastiano Aristotile da, paint-
er, i. 320.

Sapphic Ode, i. 174-176.

Sardinian Ambassador's chapel and
stables in Lincoln's Inn Fields
burnt, iii. 22.

marriage of his son to Miss Speed,
iii. 83.

Satire upon the Heads; or never a barrel
the better herring, i. 134.
editorial note on, i. 134.

Satyrical prints, their popularity, circa
1746, ii. 134.

Saxe-Gotha, Princess of, reference to,
iii. 70.

Saxon Architecture, see Architecture.
Sayer, Mr., elder brother of Mr. Pal-

grave, reference to, iii. 284.
Scaliger, Julius Cæsar, The Propertius
of Gray influenced by the writings
of, ii. 112.

Sceptic, a professed, can only be
guided by his present passions, iii.

378.

Schaub, Lady, i. 82.

Schoolmistress, Wm. Shenstone's poem
of the, ii. 219.

Scotch, Character of the, lost piece by
Gray, i. 142.

Scotland, Gray about to accompany

Lord Strathmore and Thomas
Lyon to, iii. 208.

journey from Hetton to Glamis, iii.
209-210.

Scotland, considers its scenery sub- | Secretary of State, changes in 1766,
lime, iii. 219.
iii. 237.

returned charmed with the High- Sedgwick, Mr., secretary to Anne,
lands, iii. 223.
Countess of Dorset, i. 279.
Selby, Bell, her dream of Mason, ii.
294.

Italy can hardly excel its scenery,

iii. 223.

Gray will certainly go again, iii.
224.

a country that gave him much
sure, iii. 279.

Gray's first visit to, iv. 343.

Selwyn, George, present at the execu-
tion of Lord Lovat, ii. 142.
plea-Senesino, nicknames of certain Italian
singers, ii. 65.

MS. of his journey in the possession
of Mr. John Morris, iv. 342.
reference to places mentioned by
Gray in :-

Arbroath, visit to, iii. 219.
Blair of Athol, proposes to visit,
iii. 220.

Braidalbane's, Lord, description of

his estate, iii. 216-217.
Dunkeld, its ruined cathedral, iii.
215.

house of Duke of Athol, where
Gray stayed, iii. 215.
road from, to Inverness, beauty
of, iii. 218.

Edinburgh, visit to the principal
sights, iii. 209.

dreads it and the itch, iii. 219.
Fingal, tomb of, iii. 216.

Forfar, Lord Strathmore engaged
in draining the lake of, by
widening the little river

Deane, iii. 212.
Glames, town built of stone and
slated, iii. 211.

castle, its position, approach,
etc., iii. 210-213.

its nurseries, iii. 213.
Killiecrankie, Pass of, iii. 218.
Mr. Robinson's house at foot of,
iii. 218.

Loch Tay, beauties of, iii. 216.
Megill, story of Queen Wanders
buried there, iii. 214.
Perth, stay at, iii. 210.
Strathmore, valley of, iii. 210.
Strath-Tay, beauty of, iii. 215.
Tay, the, iii. 210, 214, 215, 216.
Taymouth or Balloch, scenery in
neighbourhood, iii. 215.
Tummell, the, iii. 217, 218.
Wade's, Marshal, road, iii. 218.
Scripture Vindicated, by Dr. Waterland,
ii. 215.

replied to by Dr. Middleton, ii. 215.
Seba, Albertus, his Locupletissimi Rerum
Naturalium Thesauri, iii. 203.
Secker, Bishop, his conduct as a court-
ier, iii. 71.

Senhouse, Mr., and his acoustic warm-
ing-pan, ii. 295.

Sestine, ascribed to Arnauld Daniel,
ii. 350.

Settle, Elkanah, poet laureate, ii. 345.
Seven Years' War, the, fear of a French
invasion, iii. 3.

Prince Ferdinand defeats Contades
at Minden, iii. 7.

conduct of Lord G. Sackville, iii. 8.
Prussian victory over General
Harsch, iii. 9.
expectation of an action between
the fleets, iii. 18.

victory of Admiral Hawke, iii. 22, 23.
fear of invasion dispelled, iii. 23.
proposed great expedition to France,
iii. 66.

secret expedition, iii. 68.

pamphlet against Mr. Manduit, iii. 91.
treaty of peace, iii. 137.

Sextus V., built dome of St. Peter's,
ii. 79.

his obelisk in the great area, ii. 80.
Seward, Thomas, contributes to Dods-

ley's Miscellaneous Poems, ii. 221.
Shaftesbury, Lord, how the third earl

came to be a philosopher, ii. 375.
Shakespeare, creator of poetic lan-
guage, ii. 108.

beauty of his language, ii. 109.
Shakespeare Verses, by Gray, i. 132.
editorial note, i. 132.

Sharp, Mr., travels into Italy, iii. 256.
Shaw, Dr., his work on Architecture,
ii. 255.

Shelburne, Earl of, likely to join the
new ministry, iii. 153.

Shenstone, William, his poem of The
Schoolmistress, ii. 219.

admires the Odes of Gray, ii. 327, 331.
his contribution to Dodsley's Collec-
tion of Poems, ii. 364.

his Letters, Gray's opinion of them
and the author, iii. 344.
Shepherd, Miss, reference to, ii. 290.
Sheridan, Mr., advertisement of his
lecture on elocution, iii. 124.
Sherlock, Bishop of London, reference
to, iii. 125.

Sherman, William, his daughter mar- | Sonnet, its invention ascribed to Fra'
ried to Mason, iii. 198.
Shirley, Mrs., mother of Lord Ferrers,
petitions for mercy, iii. 36.
Sicilian poetry, period of its success, i.
367.

Sickness makes us better friends and
better men, ii. 206.

Sictryg, his warfare with the King of
Dublin, i. 54.

Sidney, Sir Philip, his attempt to in-
troduce the hexameter, i. 341.
and the park of Warwick Castle, ii.
257.

Sidney, Le, comedy by Gresset, ii. 184.
Sigurd, Earl of the Orkney Isles, his
expedition to Ireland, i. 54.
Silver boar, the badge of Richard III.,
i. 47.

Simms, Mr., Mrs., and Madlle. Nanny,
reference to, ii. 124.

Simons, Rudolph, his portrait in
Emanuel College, i. 310.
Sisters, see Fatal Sisters, an Ode.
Sketchley, Mr. R. F., reference to, i. xvii.
Skinner, John, Fellow of St. John's,
candidate for the Mastership of
St. John's, note on, iii. 190.
Skroddles (Rev. Wm. Mason).
Smart, Christopher, the poet, his debts,
ii. 161, 178.

biographical note, ii. 161.

his comedy of a Trip to Cambridge,
ii. 162.

Duke of Cleveland allows him £40 a
year, ii. 179.

committed to Bedlam, ii. 215.
not dead, Merope and The Guardian
acted for his benefit, ii. 391.
collection on behalf of, iii. 162.
Messrs. Gordon and Anguish, gentle-
men interested in him, iii. 163.
Smith, Dr. Adam, has heard several of
the Erse poems repeated from tra-
dition, i. 311.

Guittone d'Arezzo, i. 349.
Sopha, Le, de Crebillon, ii. 128-133.
Sophonisba to Masinissa, story of, ii.
115-116.

Sophonisba to Masinissa, part of an
heroic epistle, i. 183.

Southampton, appearance of the coast
in its vicinity, ii. 265.

Gray staying in the High Street, iii.

177.

full of bathers, but Gray knows not
a soul, iii. 178.

no coffee-house, no bookseller, no
pastry-cook, and lodgings very
dear, iii. 178.

description of, iii. 179-180, 200.
Southampton Row, once the residence
of Dr. Wharton, and afterwards a
lodging of Gray's, ii. 397.

Gray takes up his abode at Mr.
Jauncey's in, iii. 1, 6.
description of the prospect from, iii.
3, 5.

its surroundings, iii. 4.
Gray about to remove, iii. 102.
Southcote, Mr., offers his house and
lands to Dr. Wharton, ii. 252.
Southerne, Thomas, Restoration dra-
matist, ii. 11.

Southwell, Henry, of Magdalen College,
reference to, ii. 76.

goes to Ireland, ii. 104.
Southwell, Mr. and Mrs., reference to,
ii. 287.

Gray sends him a copy of The Odes,
ii. 320.

Spain, quarrel with, about logwood,
iii. 116.

and the French, iii. 172.
Spanish War, Gray takes an interest
in the, iii. 84.

Spectacles, Gray's aversion to wear, ii.
75-76.

Spedding, Mr., his residence of Ar-
mathwaite House, i. 262.

Miss (Countess de Viry), refer-
ence to her attitude towards Gray,
ii. 330.

Smith, his print of Derwentwater, i. 259.
visits Maltham and issues an engrav-Speed,
ing of Gordale Scar, i. 278.
Smith and Philips, reference to, i. 212.
Smith of Trinity is dead, iii. 303.
Snowdon, its name, i. 41.

resorted to by eagles, i. 43.
Somerset, Carr, Earl of, reference to a
letter about, iii. 123.

Somerset House, John of Padua, its
architect, i. 307.

Somner's Saxon Dictionary, reference
to, i. 326.

Song, to an old air of Geminiani, i. 138.
editorial note on, i. 138.

possessed Gray's MS. of the Amatory
Lines, i. 137.

Gray writes a Song at her request, i.

138.

reference to, i. 82.

her legacy from Lady Cobham, iii. 37.
Gray's probable visit with her to
Oxfordshire, her uncertainty of
mind, iii. 49.

public chatter respecting Gray and,
iii. 65.

Speed, Miss, her marriage with the
Baron de la Peyriere, iii. 83.
need not change her religion, iii. 83;
see also Peyriere.

Spence, Joseph, his description of a
puppet-show in Turin, ii. 44.
his Polymetis, ii. 170-172.

his Essay on Pope's Odyssey, ii. 170.
drowned in his own garden at By-
field, iii. 329.

Spence, S., his verses on the death of

Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii. 119.
Spencer elected Fellow of Pembroke,
ii. 227.

interests himself for Lord Nuneham,
ii. 309, 311.

Spenser, Edmund, adopted the hexa-
meter, etc., ii. 341.

Spiletta, portion of a comedy, refer-
ence to, iii. 81.

Spleen, The, a poem by Matthew Green,
ii. 219.

Spring, Ode on the, i. 1.

editorial note on, i. 2.

Matthew Green's Queen's Hermitage
furnishes Gray with two thoughts
for, ii. 222.

Squibb, Dr. Arthur, M.A., chaplain of
Colonel Bellasis's regiment, i. 88.
Squibb, James, of Saville Row, i. 88.
Squibb, James, of Stowe, i. 88.
Squire, Dr. Samuel, Bishop of St.
David's, i. 127.

biographical note on, ii. 327.

Dean of Bristol and candidate for
St. David's, iii. 78.
reference to, iii. 103.

Staël, Memoires de Madame, ii. 291.
Stamp Act, Bill for the repeal of, gone

to the Lords. "Oh that they
would throw it out," iii. 234.
Stanhope, Mr., and Mr. Dayrolles, ii. 354.
Stanza on Immortality, i. 141.
State Papers, by Dr. Birch, ii. 194.
Statius, translations from the The-

baïdos of, i. 145-148.
when printed, i. 144.
Stephen, Mr. Leslie, analysis of Dr.

Middleton's writings in English
Thought in the Eighteenth Century,
ii. 199.

Sterne, Laurence, his popularity, iii. 36.
receives £700 for a second edition of

Tristram Shandy, iii. 36.
his portrait by Reynolds, iii. 36.
publication of his sermons, iii. 37.
Gray's opinion of the sermons, iii. 53.
Stevenson, John Hall, humorous poet,
friend of Sterne, iii. 37.
his Crazy Tales, iii. 245.

Stillingfleet, Benjamin (Blue Stocking),
the naturalist, iii. 38.

resides with his friend Mr. Marsham,
iii. 88.

his observations on the Norfolk
birds in 1755, iii. 95-96.
Stocks, public, are low, ii. 393.

Gray loses £200 by selling, ii. 395.
Stoke Pogis, "West End," residence
of Gray's uncle, Mr. Rogers, after-
wards of his mother, i. 2.
Ode to Spring, written at, i. 2.
Ode on Distant Prospect of Eton College,
written at, i. 16.

Hymn to Adversity, written at, i. 24.
Elegy in a Churchyard, chiefly written
at, i. 72.

Sonnet on the death of Richard West,
written at, i. 110.

Manor House, Gray's sketch of, i.

82; ii. 234; the residence of various
families, i. 83.

Gray's melancholy reminiscences at,
ii. 250.

Stone, John, sculptor, reference to, iii.
135.

Stone, Nicholas, sculptor, reference to,
i. 321.

Stone, Mr., obtains a political post, ii.
290.

Stonehewer, Dr., rector of Houghton,
ii. 241.

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