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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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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