John of Padua, architect of Somerset | Kent, William, the architect, his de-
House, i. 307.
built Longleat, i. 307. reference to, i. 317.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his poem of London, ii. 220.
prologue for the opening of Drury Lane theatre, ii. 220. reviews in the Literary Magazine Jenyns's work on Evil, ii. 310. not a judge of art, iii. 81. Gray's repugnance to, iii. 371. Gray calls him the great bear, Ursa Major, iii. 371.
Johnson, Miss, trial of Lord Ferrers for
the murder of her father, iii. 35-36. Johnston, Dorothy, her marriage with Néricault Destouches, ii. 23. Jonathan, Mr., friend of Dr. Wharton, references to, iii. 17, 83, 87, 173, 219, 237.
Jonathan, Mrs., references to, iii. 152, 173, 219, 354.
Jones, Inigo, his skill in architecture, ii. 158.
Joseph Andrews, Gray's criticism of Fielding's, ii. 107.
July, 1754 and 1759, records of the
weather and condition of the crops in, ii. 398-401.
Juvenal and Persius, Imitations of, by Thomas Neville, ii. 314.
sign at Esher, ii. 253.
Kent, Gray's description of the county. Visited Ramsgate, Margate, Sand- wich, Deal, Dover, Folkestone, and Hythe, iii. 240, 241-2. contrasts its coast with Hartlepool, iii. 242.
Gray has passed a deal of the sum- mer (1768) in, iii. 320.
Keysler, Johann Georg, his descrip- tion of Celtic and other antiquities in his Travels through Germany, Hungary, etc., iii. 351.
Killaloe, Bishop of, insulted by the Irish rabble, iii. 26. Kilmarnock, Lord, his trial, ii. 139. King, Dr., Gray's opinion of his poetry, ii. 220.
King's College, Cambridge, founded by Henry VI., i. 195. Kingston's Light Horse refused ad-
mittance into Edinburgh, ii. 143. Kinnoul, see Viscount Dupplin. Kinnoul, Lord, his journey to Lisbon and Genoa, iii. 27.
description of his voyage to Lisbon, iii. 30.
Kirke, Miss, executrix of Dr. New- come, iii. 189.
Knight, Dr. Gowin, M.D., principal librarian of British Museum, iii.
KEENE, Dr. Edmund, Bishop of Ches- Knights du Saint Esprit, installation
ter, lines on, i. 140, 141.
at Cambridge, ii. 178.
his interest sought on behalf of Stonehewer, ii. 193, 195.
Gray's acquaintance with, ii. 201. Master of St. Peter's College, note on, ii. 287.
private ambassador of the Earl of Sandwich, iii. 201.
interview with Mr. Charles Yorke, iii. 201.
refused the Archbishopric of Ar- magh, iii. 201.
his son leaves Eton for Peterhouse College, iii. 385.
references to, ii. 189, 190, 192; iii. 55. Keene, Mrs., Couplet on, i. 141. Keith, Marshall, death of, ii, 385. Kemble, Boaden's Life of, quotation relative to Mason, ii. 242.
Kennicott, B., his verses on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii.
Kennington, harvest just over (1759) in, iii. 12.
Knowles, Mr., elected Fellow of Pem- broke College, ii. 188.
Lady, The Modern fine, a play by S. Jenyns, ii. 214.
Laguerre, Louis (Old Laguerre), his work at Chatsworth, iii. 136. Lakes, Dr. Wharton obliged through asthma to part from Gray, when about to set out for the, iii. 349. Lakes, Gilpin's Tour to the, i. 279. Lakes, Gray's reason for writing the Journal, iii. 350.
Lakes, Journal in the, i. 249-281. references to places mentioned by Gray in :-
Ambleside, road from, to Kendal, i. 267.
Appleby, description of the country about, with the river Eden, i. 250. reference to, i. 140. Armathwaite-house, residence of Mr. Spedding, i. 262.
Buttermere, charr taken in, i. 263. Carlisle, Gray and Dr. Wharton visit, iii. 281.
Cartmell sands, i. 270.
Castle-Crag, description of, i. 257. Castle Hill, view of Derwentwater from. i. 259.
Castle-Rigg, fine view from, i. 264. Cockermouth, visited by Gray and Dr. Wharton, i. 281. Cockshut-hill, account of, i. 259. Craven, description of the district of, i. 278. Crow-park, i. 259.
Dalemaine or Delmaine, residence of Mr. Hasel, i. 251. Derwentwater, view of, i. 260.
vale of, called the Devil's Chamber Pot, i. 262.
Druid-Circle at Castle-Rigg, i. 261. Dunmallert, view of Ulleswater from
the hill of, i. 251. Eagle's-eirie, plundering an, i. 258. Eimot, description of the vale of the, i. 250, 252. Elysium, the vale of, i. 253.
Evening at Derwentwater, i. 258-259. Gardies and Lowside, valley of, i. 253. Gordale-scar, description of, i. 276- 277.
Gowder crag, description of, i. 256. Grange, situation of the village of, i. 256.
Grasmere, description of, i. 265. coach road, i. 266.
Hill-top, a mansion of the Gaskarth's, i. 253.
Holm-crag, i. 265.
Hornby Castle, i. 274.
Hutton or Hatton St. John, the re-
sidence of Mr. Huddleston, i. 251. Ilkeley, i. 280.
Ingleborough, view of, i. 275, 278. Ingleton, i. 275.
Kent, falls of the river, i. 269. Kendal, its appearance by night, i. 268.
general description, i. 268, 269.
Lakes, Journal in the, references to places mentioned by Gray in :- Kendal, its church, with tombs of the Parrs, Stricklands, and Belling- hams, i. 269.
Keswick, botany might be studied to perfection around, i. 263. visited by Gray and Dr. Wharton, iii. 281.
Kirkstall Abbey, description of,i. 281. Lancaster, description of, i. 271. its Gothic gateway, i. 271. Leathes-water, see Thirlmere. Leeds, aspect of, i. 281.
Levens, the seat of Lord Suffolk, i. 270.
Lodore, account of the falls of, i. 225. and Wordsworth's Evening Walk, i. 255.
Lodore-bank Crags, description of, i. 255.
Lune, valley of, i. 274. Maltham, i. 278.
Milthrop, iron forges near, i. 270. Ottley, description of, i. 280.
Fairfax monuments in the church of, i. 280.
Penigant, view of, i. 278.
Penrith, view from the Beacon-hill near, i. 250.
visited by Gray and Dr. Wharton, iii. 281.
Place Fell, view of, from Dunmallert Hill, i. 251. Poulton, i. 272.
Ridale Hall, seat of Sir M. Fleming, i. 266.
Ridale-head, i. 267.
Ridale-water, description of, i. 266. St. John's, valley of, i. 253. Saddleback, effect of clouds on, i. 253. Sea Whaite, i. 257.
Settle, road between Lancaster and, i. 274-276.
Seven Mile Sands, near Lancaster, i. 272.
their danger and story of a fatal attempt to cross them, i. 273. Sheffield, its pleasant situation, i. 134. Shode-bank Hill, steep road over, i.
Skipton, description of, i. 278-279. Thirlmere, called also Leathes Water or Wythburn-Water, description of, i. 264, 265.
acquired by Manchester as a reser- voir, i. 264.
Ulleswater, description of, from the hill of Dunmallert, i. 251. general description of, i. 134.
Lakes, Journal in the, references to places mentioned by Gray in :- Wadd-mines, near Sea Whaite, i. 257, 263.
Walla-crag, view from, i. 254. Water-Mallock, village of, i. 252. Wentworth Castle, description of, iii. 134.
Wharfdale, description of, i. 279-280. Widhope-brows and the view of Der-
Windermere, description of, i. 267. Wythburn Water, see Thirlmere. Lamb, Sir Matthew, quarrels with J. Gaskarth, ii. 346.
father of the first Lord Melbourne, ii. 346. Lambertini, Cardinal Prospero, ii. 93. Landscape Gardening, see Gardening. Langland, Robert, metre of, i. 370.
his birthplace, i. 370. Langley, Battey, his style of archi- tecture, ii. 253.
biographical note on, ii. 253. Langley, Thomas, his work on archi- tecture, ii. 253.
Lansdowne, Marquis of, his waterfall at Bow-wood, ii. 254. Lansdowne, Marquis, William Vis-
count Fitzmaurice created, iii. 76. Latin verses, i. viii., xvii. Latini, Sur Brunetto, his poem of Il Pataffio, i. 348.
Lauderdale, Richard Maitland, Earl of,
his house of Lithinton or Lenox Love, iii. 209.
Laurel, imported into Europe by Clu- sius, ii. 174.
Law, Dr. Edmund, Master of St.
Peter's College, Cambridge, in suc- cession to Dr. Keene, ii. 287. made Bishop of Carlisle, iii. 337. gives up £800 a-year to enjoy it, iii. 337.
Lay of Darts, see The Fatal Sisters, i. 53. Laziness, figurative description of, ii.
facetious account of the effect of, on Gray, ii. 192.
Lee, Dr., his knowledge of college matters, ii. 180.
Lee, Nathaniel, his Bedlam Tragedy, ii. 106.
Lee, Sir George, Secretary at War, ii.293. Leeds, turnpike riots at, ii. 240. Legge, Right Hon. Henry, Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. 273, 292. Leghorn, chaplainship of, formerly held by young Mr. Byron, now suggested for Mr. Temple, iii. 402.
Leicester House, the political arrange. ments of, ii. 290.
Leicester, Lord, buried in Warwick Church, ii. 257.
Leicester, Lettice, Countess of, also buried there, ii. 257.
Leighton, Mr. and Mrs., reference to, iii. 237.
Leman, Rev. Thomas, Countess de Viry presents him with Gray's MS. of the Amatory Lines, i. 137. presents in turn, Gray's MS. to Joseph Wharton, i. 137. Lennox, Lord, reference to, iii. 76. Lenox-love or Lithinton, seat of Lord Blantyre, note on, iii. 209. Lent, account of a Florentine, ii. 64. Leonidas, Richard Glover's epic of, ii. 134.
Leonius, Canon of St. Benedict, his Latin verse, i. 373.
his origin of Leonine verse discussed, i. 373-375.
Lepell, Mary, see Lady Hervey, iii. 62. Letters apt to be opened at the offices at election-times, ii. 249. Lettres de la Marquise M*** au Comte de R***, by Crébillon fils, ii. 27. Liberty of Genius, suppositious Ode on, i. viii.
Life, Gray's references to his health, mode and condition of:- confined at Florence with inflam- mation of his eyes, ii. 367.
in a good easy sort of state but oc- casionally depressed, ii. 113-114. doubts if he should find much dif- ference between living in this world and t'other, ii. 135. calls himself a solitary of six years' standing, ii. 154.
the spirit of laziness begins to pos- sess him, ii. 192.
his mind unable to keep him cheer- ful or easy, and the spiritual part is the most infirm, ii. 199.
is listless, old, vexed, and perplexed, ii. 206.
diverting himself for a month in
London among his gay acquaint- ances, then returns to his cell, ii. 229.
suffers from gout or rheumatism, ii. 267, 272, 283, 392.
uses soap prescribed by Dr. Whar- ton for his complaint, ii. 275. depressed in mind, ii. 285, 321, 371. ill of a cold and fever, ii. 329.
is better and more capable of amuse ment, ii. 330.
Life, Gray's references to his :- can look back on many bitter mo- ments, partly with satisfaction, and partly with patience, and for- ward, although not promising, with some hope, ii. 347. almost blind with a great cold, ii. 354. believes that people take notice of his dulness, ii. 376.
weary and disagreeable in mind only, ii. 377.
thinks that he inspires everything around him with ennui and de- jection, ii. 379.
solitary and dispirited, but not wholly unpleasant to himself, iii. 1. the British Museum his favourite domain, iii. 5, 11, 15.
envies Dr. Wharton his country abode, whilst he will never have even a thatched roof of his own, iii. 49.
"racketting about from morning to night" wears out his spirits, iii. 60-64.
concerts every night at Cambridge,
shall stay this month or two, iii. 124. has had two slight attacks of gout| after three years' intermission, iii. 130.
long taciturnity owing to the noth- ingness of my history, iii. 150. "neglected all my duties in hopes of finding pleasure," which after all one never finds, iii. 161. "nobody contented but you and I," iii. 161.
the music of Carlo Bach serves "to deceive my solitary days," iii. 164. suffered a good deal from a complaint which has now grown almost con- stant, iii. 167. undergoes an operation for the piles, iii. 170.
travelling through Hampshire, iii.175. health much improved by the sea, iii. 179.
a complaint in his eyes that may possibly end in blindness, iii. 186. neither happy nor miserable, iii. 232. so fat that he suffered more from heat in 1769 than ever he did in Italy, iii. 347.
passed six days in Keswick lap'd in Elysium, iii. 349.
walked about 300 miles through the lake districts in seventeen days, iii. 350.
have had a cough for above three months, iii. 392.
Life, Gray's references to his :-- lacks health and spirits all the win- ter, iii. 401.
travel he must, or cease to exist, iii. 405.
"the gout is gone," but "spirits
much oppressed," God knows what will be the end of it, iii. 405. Lighting of the chandeliers at George III.'s coronation, iii. 114. Lincoln, Lord, Gray visits him near
Twickenham, and describes his newly made plantations, ii. 370. Lisbon, Voltaire's poem on the earth- quake at, ii. 285.
Lisburne, Lord, reference to, iii. 241. Rev. Norton Nicholls acts as medi-
ator between him and Mr. Temple, iii. 287, 289, 332-333, 402-403. Gray's opinion of the disagreement, iii. 302-303.
Lloyd, Robert, published a Latin trans- lation of Gray's Elegy, i. 227; iii.
his praise of Gray in the Epistle to Churchill, iii. 128.
Lloyd, Miss, player on musical glasses, iii. 124.
Lloyd's Evening Post, G. Colman con- tributes to, iii. 42. reference to, iii. 123. Locke, John, his Essay on the Human Understanding and Gray's De Prin- cipiis Cogitandi, i. 185, 193. Loggan's views of the Cambridge Col- leges, i. 309.
Loix, L'Esprit des, by Montesquieu, ii. 191, 199.
Lok, the evil being, i. 65. Lomellini, Genoese family of, ii. 48. London, Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem of, ii. 220.
London Magazine, Gray's Elegy pub- lished by the, i. 72. London, that tiresome dull place where
all persons under thirty find amuse- ment, iii. 181.
Londonderry, Bishop of, his patronage in Ireland, iii. 403. Long, Dr. Roger, Master of Pembroke College, ii. 14.
his verses on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii. 118.
takes Mr. Delaval under his tuition, ii. 155.
settlement of his dispute with the Rev. J. Brown, ii. 188.
Long, Dr. Roger, introduces Mr. Bed- ingfield to Gray, ii. 276. illness, and recovery from, ii. 289. referred to in Carey's Candidate, ii. 289.
an authority on astronomy, ii. 298. Gray sends him a copy of the Odes, ii. 320.
his audience at Buckingham Palace to present a lyricord and a glass sphere to the king, iii. 152-153. his mechanical faculty, iii. 152. agent for the Earl of Sandwich at the election for high steward, iii. 168. purchases a zumpe, iii. 267. his funeral, iii. 387.
reference to his harpischords in the "old lodge," iii. 391.
references to, ii. 138, 228, 280. Long Story, see Story.
Lort, Mr., a candidate for Professor- ship of Modern History, and a worthy man, iii. 320. note on, iii. 324.
gone to Bath, iii. 335. Lottery ticket, Gray asks Dr. Wharton
to purchase him one, ii. 370, 376. wins a £20 prize, iii. 337. Louth, R., his verses on death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii. 119. Lovat, Lord, his continement at Edin- burgh, ii. 142.
his execution on Tower Hill, ii. 142. Hogarth's caricature of, ii. 146. Love-a-la-Mode, Macklin's farce of, iii. 28.
Lowth, Dr., his wife's recovery, iii. 83. contributes to Dodsley's Miscellane- ous Poems, ii. 221.
Gray's opinion of his Grammar, iii. 129.
his pamphlet against Warburton, iii. 224.
Ludlam, Revs. Thomas and William,
Fellows of St. John's College, bio- graphical note on, iii. 144. Ludlow's Memoirs, ii. 128. Luna est Habitabilis, i. 171-174. theme for college verses, ii. 8. Luttrel, Colonel, insulted at door of
the House of Commons, iii. 338. Lydgate, John, remarks on the poems of, i. 387-409.
Lynch, Dr., Dean of Canterbury, his death, iii. 40.
Lyne, Mr., reference to, ii. 144. Lyon, James Philip, reference to, iii. 122, 173.
Lyon, Thomas, Fellow of Pembroke College, iii. 122.
Lyon, Thomas, biographical note on, iii. 122.
goes to Scotland with Gray, iii. 208. his chambers at Pembroke College destroyed by fire, iii. 301.
lost one of his causes in the House of Lords against Lord Panmure, iii.317. Gray breakfasts with him and Lady Maria, iii. 374.
references to, iii. 101, 238. Lyon, references to the story of the, ii. 290.
Lyttleton, Dean, satire on, i. 316. Lyttleton, Mr., Gray's opinion of, ii.220. refers to an Elegy by, ii. 225. Lyttleton, Lord George, his Monody on death, ii. 180.
his Monody parodied in Peregrine Pickle, and his character portrayed as "Gosling Scrag," ii. 214. admires The Odes of Gray, ii. 327, 331. his dialogues of the dead, iii. 42. Lyttleton, Sir Richard, reference to, iii. 98.
MACAULAY, Mrs., Mr. Pitt made her a panegyric in the House, iii. 238. Machiavel, Gray's opinion of, iii. 299. Mackay, Major, testimony in favour of the Erse poems, iii. 311. Mackenzie, Mrs., grossly insults Mr. L—, iii. 87.
Mackfarline, the Laird of, testimony in
support of the Erse poems, iii. 311 Macklin, his farce of Love-a-la-Mode, iii. 28.
gratifies the king, who sends for a copy, iii. 29. Macleod, the Laird of, testimony in
support of the Erse poems, iii. 311. MacPherson, Rev. James, his transla- tion of Ossian's Poems, their publi- cation, iii. 56-57, see also Erse. Magazine of Magazines, its editor re- fused permission to publish Gray's Elegy, i. 72.
publishes the Elegy, i. 72.
references to its publication of the
Elegy, ii. 210, 211, 213. Maggett, Captain, and Lord Lovat,ii.142. Mahomet, Life of, ii. 128.
Mahomet Second, a tragedy, ii. 22. Maine, Duchess of, Madame de Stael her confidante, ii. 291. Maintenon's, Madame de, Letters, Gray's account of, ii. 232. reference to, ii. 287.
Mallet, David, supposed to have writ ten Earl Nugent's Ode, ii. 220.
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