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

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.

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.

Messrs. Gordon and Anguish, gentle-Spanish War, Gray takes an interest

men interested in him, iii. 163.
Smith, Dr. Adam, has heard several of

the Erse poems repeated from tra-
dition, i. 311.
8mith, his print of Derwentwater, i.259.
visits Maltham and issues an engrav-
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.

in the, iii. 84.

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

Spedding, Mr., his residence of Ar-
mathwaite House, i. 262.
Speed, Miss (Countess de Viry), refer-
ence to her attitude towards Gray,
ii. 330.

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-

baidos 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.

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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.

his death, iii. 351.

Stonehewer, Richard, Fellow of St.

Peter's College, and secretary to
Duke of Grafton, ii. 241.
Gray enquires of Dr. Wharton his
opinion of, ii. 187.

Gray seeks the interest of Dr. Wharton

and Dr. Keene on behalf of, ii. 197.
proposes to visit York with Gray, ii.
238.

fragment of the Prophecy sent to,
ii. 268.

tutor to the Duke of Grafton, ii. 277.
goes to Portsmouth to receive a
Morocco ambassador, iii. 10.
attendant on his sick father, Rev.
Dr. Stonehewer, iii. 46.
busiest creature on earth, except
Mr. Fraser, iii. 224.

Gray's oracle of State, iii. 233.
living in Queen Street, London, iii.
317.

induced the Duke of Grafton to re-
commend Gray for the professor-
ship of Modern History, iii. 322.
health of his father, iii. 350.
Gray's letter of condolence on the
death of his father, iii. 351.

Stonehewer, Richard, references to, ii.
144, 181, 188, 230, 264, 268, 273, 307,
373, 390, 395; iií. 37, 150, 173, 176.
Story, A Long, i. 81.

editorial note on, i. 82.

occasion of its being written, ii. 228.
not intended for publication, suffered
to appear because Mr. Bentley's
designs were not intelligible with-
out it, iii. 268, 308.

Strathmore, John, ninth Earl of, his
personal appearance, ii. 263.
returns to College with his brother,
ii. 307.

his coming of age, and biographical
note, ii. 369.

his seat of Hetton, iii. 208.
going abroad, iii. 21.

proposed voyage to Genoa, iii. 28.
ill at Turin, iii. 98.

takes Gray to Scotland, iii. 208.
his agricultural operations around
Glamis, iii. 212.

approaching marriage, iii. 245.
to be married in London, iii. 258.
interesting condition of Lady Strath-
more, iii. 268.

reference to, ii. 261; iii. 276.
Strawberry Hill, bowl with Gray's
lines on Walpole's cat at, i. 10.
Stricklands, their family seat of Siserge,
ii. 269.

chapel in Kendal church, ii. 269.
Stuart, Mary, and her son, Robertson's
History of, ii. 396.

Stuart, James ("Athenian Stuart "),

his work among the Antiquities of
Athens, ii. 283.

Gray subscribes to his Attica, ii. 360;
to his Antiquities of Athens, and
desires a copy for Pembroke Hall,
iii. 149-150.

successful architect, iii. 149.
proposed to be consulted for Mrs.

Mason's monument, iii. 266.
approves of Mason's sketch, iii. 272.
Stuart, Mr., his duel with the Duke of
Bolton, iii. 34.

Stuart of Cambridge, reference to,ii.159.
Studley, residence of Dr. Wharton,

visited by Gray, ii. 240.
Stukeley, Dr., frequents the reading-
room of the British Museum, iii. 2.
note on, iii. 2.

talks nonsense and coffee-house news
at the Museum, iii. 5.
Sturbridge fair, ii. 15.

Sturgeon, Roger, Fellow of Caius, ii.311.
Suard, Madame, an acquaintance of
Voltaire's, iii. 173.

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Suarez, Countess of, entertains Gray at
Florence, ii. 53.

Suffolk, Lord, his seat at Levens, i.
270.

Sully, Duke de, Gray's opinion of his
Memoirs and character, ii. 281.
Summers, Mr., recommended by Gray
to Dr. Wharton for his skill in
planting, iii. 292.

Superstition, Gray's love of popular,
iii. 222.

History of Witches and a History of
Second Sight given by Beattie to
Gray, iii. 222.

Surrey, Lord, his use of the Cæsura,
i. 333.

his verse, i. 334.

Swift on Money, ii. 155.

Swift's application of Herodotus's
passage on feathers, ii. 240.
Swift's history of the Tory administra-
tion, ii. 360.

Swinburne, Lady, reference to, ii. 246.
Swithin's Alley, fatal fire in, iii. 22.
Switzerland,

Arve, river, banks of, at Geneva, ii. 38.
description of, ii. 40.
Geneva, its peasantry contrasted
with those of Savoy, i. 245.
Geneva, description of, ii. 37, 38.
lake of, ii. 38-39.

its trout, i. 246; ii. 39.
Gray obliged to forego his proposed
visit to, iii. 403, 405.
Syon Hill, Brentford, residence of
Lord Holdernesse, iii. 15.

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Mundi, i. 361.

Taliessin, chief of the bards, i. 49, 361. | Theodulus, his treatise De Contemptu
prophecy that Welch should regain
the sovereignuty of Britain ful-
filled, i. 48.

Tanner, Bishop, his article on Chaucer
in Bibliotheca, i. 306.

Taroc, a game played in Turin, ii. 44.
Tasso, translations from the Gerus of,
i. 148, 151.

first printed, i. 44.

Taste, more difficult to restore than
to introduce good taste to a nation,
iii. 158.

Tavistock, Francis, Marquis of, comes
to Cambridge, ii. 309, 311.
Taylor, Dr., attends Mrs. Charles York,
ii. 401.

his opinion of a portrait in St. John's
College, i. 311.

Taylor, J., Tracts by, ii. 119.
Temple, Lancelot, see Dr. Armstrong.
Temple, Lord, Head of the Admiralty,
ii. 292.

Newcastle and Bute's opposition in
council, cause of his resignation,
iii. 123.

disinherits his brother, iii. 123.
Temple, Mr., allusion to, iii. 241.

Rev. N. Nicholls mediates on his
behalf with Lord Lisburne, iii.
287-289, 332-333.

Gray's opinion of the disagreement,
iii. 302-303.

Gray would wish by all means to
oblige him, iii. 336.

and Lord Lisburne, his distress of
circumstances, iii. 402.
Gray suggests application for chap-
lainship of Leghorn on behalf of,
iii. 402.

reference to, iii. 401.
Temple of Tragedy, Gray busy in writ-
ing the, iii. 187.

Templeman, Dr. Peter, keeper of the

British Museum reading-room, iii. 1.
biographical note on, iii. 1.

translator of Norden's Travels in
Egypt, ii. 194.

Tenducci, Ferdinando, reference to, ii.
65.

Tent, Ode on a, William Whitehead's,
ii. 220.

Tenter-grounds, description of, i. 268.
Terrick, Bishop of London, reference
to, iii. 202.

Thanet, Earl of, his castle at Skipton,
i. 279.

Theatres, common, subject to outrage-
ous riots, iii. 157.
Theirre, Madanie de, reference to, ii. 128.

Thibaut, King of Navarre, i. 347.
Thomas, Dr. John, Bishop of Lincoln,

translated to Salisbury, iii. 105, 114.
Thomas, Dr., Master of Christ's College,
rumoured to be Bishop of Carlisle,
iii. 335, 337.

Thomas, Miss, singer, sung in the
Installation Ode, iii. 343.
Thompson, a friend of Gray's, ii. 63.
Thomson, the poet, his fine description
of a spirit, iii. 48.

Thorney, visited by Gray, iii. 366.
Thrale, Mr., the brewer, reference to,
i. 316.

Thrale, Mrs., calls Gray a merciless
critic, iii. 399.
Thurcaston, the living of the Rev. Mr.
Hurd, ii. 326..

Thurlow's Papers, ii. 128.
Thurot, hovering off Scotland, iii. 23.
Thynne, Sir John, employed John of
Padua at Longleat, i. 307.
Tickell, Mr. Thomas, his poem on the
peace of Utrecht, ii. 219.

his ballad of Colin and Lucy, ii. 219.
Tolomei, Claudio, Bishop of Corsola,
i. 342.

Tophet (an epigram), i. 139.

editorial note on, i. 139,
Torrigiano, i. 319.

Tory Administration, Swift's History
of the, in the press, ii. 360.
Tour of the Lakes, Gilpin's, i. 279.
Tour of the western counties, Gray's,
iii. 379-381.

Townsend, Charles, William White-
head's verses to, ii. 220.
accepts office, but not what he as-
pired to, ii. 292.

refused post of Secretary of State
and a peerage, iii. 238.
reference to his death, 282.
Townsend, General, his relations with
Wolfe before Quebec, iii. 25.
adventure with an Indian boy, iii. 25.
Tractatus, universi juris, published by
Zilettus, ii. 368.

Traigneau, Professor, ii. 122.
Translations, i. 143-160.

editorial note on, i. 144.
Travelling, difficulty of, between Old
Park and York, iii. 348.
Travelling, On the Abuse of, by G.
West, ii. 90.

Trebia, battle of, Elegiacs suggested by,
i. 177.

Trevigi, Girolamo da, his style of draw
ing, i. 319.

Trevor, Dr. Richard, Bishop of St. | Union, The, a Scotch collection of
David's and of Durham, ii. 241.
poems containing Gray's Elegy, i.
Trevor, Mr. (Hambden), designs some
wall-paper, iii. 121.

Henry

Trial of Scotch Lords, ii. 139.
Trinity College, Cambridge,
VIII. its benefactor, i. 95.
Trip to Cambridge, or the grateful Fair,
a comedy by Smart, ii. 162.
Trissino, his invention of Blank Deca-
syllabic verse without Rhyme or
Italian Heroic Measure, i. 343.
Tristram Shandy, popularity of Sterne's,
iii. 36.

much humour in, iii. 53.
Triumphs of Owen, The, a fragment,
i. 67.

editorial note on, i. 68.
Trollope, Mr., referred to by Gray, ii.
117, 118, 121, 123, 138, 161, 164.
at Dev'reux Court, ii. 159.
Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, Warbur-
ton's remark to, ii. 327.
Tudors, History of the, Hume's, ii. 396.
Tully ad Familiares, Epistles of, by Rev.
J. Ross, ii. 193.

Turner, Dr. Shallet, of Peterhouse, his
declining health, iii. 21.
his death, iii. 136.
Turnpike Riots at Leeds, ii. 240.
Tuthill, Henry, Dr. T. Wharton's in-

fluence solicited on his behalf, ii.
145.

biographical note, ii. 178.

elected a Fellow of Pembroke, ii. 188.
Gray anticipates his success as a
Tutor, ii. 197.

indebted to Dr. Keene's interest for
his fellowship, ii. 201.

votes for Mr. Spencer at Pembroke
College, ii. 228.

references to, ii. 138, 161, 197, 230,
264, 308.

Twitcher, Jemmy; or The Cambridge
Courtship, i. 131.

editorial note on, i. 131.

Two Odes, a satire against Mason and
Gray, iii. 53.

Tyre, Cardinal Archbishop of, ii. 62.
Tyrrell, reference to young, iii. 208.
Tyson, Mr., of Bene't College, his
drawing for Tophet, i. 139.

UBALDINI, Ubaldino, verses by, i. 368.
Union of poetry, music, and the dance
with painting and architecture,
might bestow the sublimest plea-
sure, iii. 155.
causes to hinder, iii. 156.

227.
Urry, see D'Urry.

Utrecht, T. Tickell's poem on the
peace of, ii. 219.

VAGA, Perin del, reference to the
painter, i. 321.

Valence or Valentia, Mary de, Countess
of Pembroke, foundress of Pem-
broke College, i. 95; ii. 280.
Valet, The Lying, farce by Garrick, ii.

213.

Valkyriur, description of the, i. 55.
Vane, Harry, Impromptu on, i. 140.
journies to the north, ii. 238.
reference to, ii. 178.

Vane, Rev. Mr., the younger, circum-
stances of his ordination, ii. 231.
ordained by the Archbishop of York,
ii. 232.

Vanrobais, Madame, her famous manu-
facture of cloth at Abbeville, iii.
358.

Vauxhall preferred to Ranelagh Gar-
dens, ii. 125.

Vavasor, Mr., his residence of Weston,
i. 280.

in

Velleron, Marquis de Cambis, The
Pope's Lieutenant-General
France, ii. 27.
Verneuil, Marqse. de, Henri IV.'s pro-
posal to marry the, ii. 281.
Verrio, Antonio, his paintings at Chats-
worth, iii. 135.

Verse, Table of the measures of, with
authorities and the order of the
Rhymes, i. 343.

Vertue, George, his MSS. purchased by
Walpole, i. 305.

his engravings of Chaucer, i. 306.
known by Burroughs, Master of
Caius, i. 307.

discovers John of Padua to be the
architect of Somerset House, i.
307.

Ververt, by Gresset, ii. 184.

Verzenay, famous for red wine, i. 239.
Vicissitude, Ode on the pleasure arising
from, i. 123.

editorial note on, i. 123.
Victory, popular superstition in Lyd-
gate's time of decisive, i. 389.
Villeneuve, Huon de, quotation from
the verse of, i. 337.
Villevielle, Marquis de, visits Gray, iii.
372, 374.

Villiers, Lord, his interest for Lord
Nuneham, ii. 309, 311.

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