Cibber's, Mrs., canary-bird, ii. 360. Cicero, by Dr. Middleton, ii. 128. by Colley Cibber, ii. 169.
Ad Familiares, by Rev. J. Ross, ii. 193.
Cinque Ports, Barons of the, their treatment at the coronation of George III., iii. 116.
Circumstance the life of oratory and poetry, i. 393.
Homer the father of, i. 393. Ciro Riconosciuto, Il, opera by Cocchi, ii. 391, 396.
Dr. Burney's opinion of, ii. 391. Clare College, founded by Elizabeth de Burg, Countess Clare, i. 95. Clare, Gilbert de, i. 42, 95. Clarendon, Edward, Earl of, incorrect
edition published of the last seven years of his life, ii. 372. Life of, announced by the Duchess of Queensberry from his MS., ii. 372. reference to the Life of, iii. 2, 5. Mr. Cambridge's premature criticism of, iii. 2.
Clarke, Dr. John, M.D., of Epsom, friend of Gray, ii. 63.
Gray writes him of his return to Cambridge, iii. 60. reference to, i. 125.
Clarke, Mrs. Jane, Epitaph on, i. 125. first published, 1775, i. 109. Clarke, Captain, his Military Institu- tions of Vezetius, iii. 357. Cleone, Dodsley's play of, ii. 391. Clergy, satire on the. Its prevalence, i. 406.
Addison unable to suppress it, i. 406. Clerke, Dr. John, Dean of Salisbury, ii. 317.
Cleveland, Duke of, his patronage of C. Smart, ii. 179.
story of an attempt to inveigle him in marriage, iii. 33. Clifford, Hon. Mr., his park on the
banks of the Lune, i. 274. Climate, its effect on nations, i. 118-119. Clontarf, battle of, i. 52.
Coalheavers at Shadwell, affray of, iii.
Cobden, Rev. Dr., court chaplain, re- ference to, ii. 327. Cobham, Viscountess, her house at Stoke, i. 83.
entertains Garrick at Stoke, ii. 323, 324.
Gray visits her at Hampton for two days, ii. 369.
dying at Stoke, iii. 14. biographical note, iii. 16.
Cobham, Viscountess, Gray attends her from Stoke to Hanover Square, iii. 17.
dying of dropsy, iii. 17.
her death, leaves £30,000 to Miss Speed, iii. 37.
leaves Gray £20 for a ring, iii. 65. Cocchi, Dr., his opera of Il Ciro Rico- nosciuto, ii. 391, 396.
reference to, and his music, ii. 127; iii. 157.
Cogitandi, De Principiis, i. 185-193. fragment sent to Richard West, ii. 104. familiarly called "Master Tommy Lucretius" by Gray, ii. 121. editorial note, i. 185.
fragment of the fourth Book sent to Horace Walpole, ii. 172.
Coke, Lady Mary, reference to and note on, iii. 73.
Coke, Sir Edmund, his residence at Stoke, i. 83.
Colin and Lucy, ballad by T. Tickell, ii. 219.
Colin's Complaint, by Rowe, its origin, ii. 367.
Colleger, vicissitudes of a, iii. 87. Collins, William, his Odes on several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects, iii. 159.
Colman, George, his Ode against Gray and Mason, iii. 41, 53. friend of Garrick's, iii. 41.
his interest in the estate of Lord Bath, iii. 172.
Comédie Françoise, account of the, ii.
editorial note on, i. 138. Commerce changes nations, i. 120. Commines, Philip de, ii. 128. Common sense thrives better in prox- imity to nonsense, ii. 339. Conan, i. 130.
probably written in 1764, i. 129. Conclave of Cardinals at Rome, and
election of Pope Benedict XIII., ii. 63, 67, 84, 93.
Condé, Princess of, Henri IV. and the, ii. 281.
Congresso di Citéra of Algarotti, Gray has read the, ii. 166. Congreve, Pindaric form first intro- duced by, ii. 263.
Contades' army entirely defeated, iii. 5. Conti, the singer, reference to, ii. 125. Conversazione, definition of a, ii. 64. Conway, Francis, second Lord Conway
(Earl of Hertford), biographical note, ii. 19.
Conway, Francis, Walpole visits him in | Cowley, comparison of his talents with
visits Gray in Paris, ii. 20. at Rheims, ii. 29.
in Geneva, ii. 37.
Conway, General, to take part in a secret military expedition, ii. 321. Duke of Devonshire gives him a legacy of £500, iii. 183. Conway, Hon. Henry Seymour, Gray visits him at Henley, iii. 60, 64. Conway Papers, Gray engaged in de- ciphering a heap of, iii. 12. returned to Walpole's house in Arlington Street, iii. 43.
Cook, Mr. (joint paymaster), iii. 293. Cookery, Verral's Book of, enriched by Gray, iii. 81.
Cornhill, destruction by fire of Gray's house in, ii. 181-182. rebuilding of Gray's house in, ii. 228. asks Dr. Wharton to pay his fire policy, ii. 263.
Mr. Ramsay, Gray's tenant in, iii.
Cornwallis, Sir William, his Essayes of
certaine Paradoxes, 1617, account of, iii. 312. Correggio, his works in the churches of Parma, ii. 49.
his picture of Venus in the collection of Sir William Hamilton, iii. 195. his picture of Sigismonda in the col- lection of Sir Luke Schaub, iii. 195. Cors, Lambert li, his poem of the Roman d'Alexandre, i. 357. Corsini, Lorenzo (Pope Clement XII.), ii. 63.
Corsola, Bishop of, Claudio Tolomei, i. 342.
Coscia, Cardinal Niccolo, Archbishop of Benevento, biographical note, ii. 94.
Costume, Gray's Parisian, ii. 57. Cotes, Humphrey, friend of Charles Churchill, iii. 187.
Couplet about Birds, i. 139. Couplet on Dining, i. 141.
Covent Garden, Gray obtains nosegays from, ii. 399.
Coventry, Francis, Gray's friendship with, ii. 163.
his comedy of Pompey the Little, ii. 214.
Coventry, Lady, Elegy on her death about to appear, iii. 65.
Gray's criticism of Mason's Elegy on, ii. 358; iii. 73-75.
Cowley misquoted by Gray in the Pro- gress of Poesy, and by Mitford, i. 32. |
irregular stanzas introduced by, ii. 262.
Cowper, Mr., residentiary at York, con- gratulates Gray, iii. 329.
Cradock, Joseph, reports statement of John, Earl of Sandwich, relative to Gray, i. 131.
refers to Gray's use of the mountain of Caer Caradoc, ii. 270. Cranmer, Archbishop, his portrait in Emanuel College, i. 310. Craon, Prince of, entertains Gray, ii. 52. visits Rome, ii. 85.
Crebillon, Prosper Jolyot de, his Lettres de la Marquise, ii. 27.
Gray recommends the romances of, ii. 107.
his Le Sopha, ii. 123.
his tragedy of Catalina, ii. 193. Crescimbeni, Comenzarj del, references
to, i. 325, 327, 317, 365, 372, 374. Creswick, Mr. (the Luke of Cleveland's managing man) iii. 33. Critical Review, article on Gray's Bard in, ii. 327, 331.
Crofts, Mr., a candidate for the Uni versity, iii. 390.
Croma, one of the poems of Ossian, iii.
Cromartie, Earl of, his trial for re- bellion, ii. 140.
Cromartie, Lady, supplicates her hus- band's life, ii. 140. Crowland Abbey visited by Gray, ii. 366.
Crowley, Robert, printer of Peirce Plowman's Vision, i. 370. Crusades, History of the, reference to, ii. 229.
Cumberland, Duke of, his entry into Edinburgh, i. 143.
his popularity, i. 145. his illness, ii. 321.
attended by the surgeons of Marshall d'Etrées, ii. 321.
his resignation after Closter-Seven, ii. 343.
recovered of his paralytic attack, iii. 66.
appears at Newmarket in his chaise, iii. 66.
King George II.'s bequests to, iii. 70- 71.
"in a very good way, 'tis strange if he recovers," iii. 183.
his illness at Newmarket and story concerning it, iii. 185.
date of his death, iii. 185.
sador at the Hague, iii. 50. D'Alembert, M., Gray comments on his Mélanges de Littérature et de Philosophie, iii. 46. Dalston's, Sir W., house at Acorn Bank, i. 250.
Daniel, Arnauld, his decasyllabic verse, i. 334.
his invention of the Sestine, i. 350. Daniskiold, Count, hereditary Admiral
of Denmark, ii. 194.
Dante, Translation of Canto 33, Dell' Inferno, i. viii. 157-160. now first printed from MS. belong- ing to Lord Houghton, i. 157. his esteem of the Canzone species of poetry, i. 352.
ascribes the origin of the old prose romances to the French, i. 365. D'Arcy, Right Hon. Sir Conyers, re- ference to, and biographical note, ii. 367.
Mason visits, ii. 373.
D'Arezzo, Fra Guittone, inventor of
Davenport, Mr., friend of Rousseau and Dr. T. Wharton, iii. 243. David, C. Smart's Song to, ii. 161. Davie, Mr., reference to, ii. 146, 147. Davis, Mrs., an English nun in Calais, ii. 17.
Dawson - Turner, his collection of
Graiana, the gift of Mr. Mathias, and now owned by Mr. John Morris, iv. 339. Dayrolles, Mr., intimate friend of Lord Chesterfield's, ii. 353.
Mason christens his child, ii. 353.
Dayrolles, Mr., his daughter elopes with Leonidas Glover's son, ii. 354. his relation with Mr. Stanhope at the Hague, ii. 354.
De Grey, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, iii. 390.
De Guerchy and the Chevalier D'Eon, iii. 181.
De Honestis Veterum Dictis by Marcellus Nonius, ii. 113.
De la Lande's Voyage through Italy, 8
vols., pretty good to read, iii. 344. Delap, Dr., referred to by Gray, ii. 309. author of Hecuba and The Captives, ii. 309.
biographical note, ii. 309. Gray proposes, through Mason, that a comment should be written on The Odes by, ii. 329.
did he write "Melpomene'? ii. 338. leaves Mason's curacy, ii. 368. returned to Trinity, iii. 128, 131. his Hecuba and Mrs. Pritchard, iii.128. and Kitty Hunter, unfounded report of their marriage, iii. 186. references to, ii. 311, 318. Delaval, Edward, his tuition, ii. 155. his disgrace at Cambridge, ii. 159. a Fellow-Commoner, ii. 203. Fellow of Pembroke and of the Royal Society, iii. 137.
his skill in playing water-glasses, iii. 31, 124.
attends regularly on the Wilkes case, iii. 39.
visits Gray in Jermyn Street, iii. 182. his frankness, iii. 320. his illness, iii. 335.
criticised Gray, iii. 338. references to, iii. 122, 137, 186. Delaval, Sir Francis Blake, asks the
post of Modern History for E. Delaval, iii. 140.
Delaval, Sir T., reference to a love affair, iii. 256.
Demofoonte, a drama in which Mingotti excelled, ii. 282.
Denbigh, Lady, at Stoke House, ii. 382. Denmark, Mallet's Introduction to the History of, ii. 352.
Denmark, King of, visits Cambridge, his personal appearance, iii. 329. references to, iii. 327, 330. Denny, Sir Anthony, old picture sup- posed to be his portrait, iii. 227. D'Eon, Chevalier, and Mons. Du Vergy and De Guerchy, iii. 181.
Principiis Cogitandi, a didactio poem of Gray's, see Cogitandi, ii. 101.
De Quincey's invective against Gras- mere coach road, i. 266. De Regimine Principum, Chaucer's por- trait by Occleve in the book, i. 305. | Destouches, Néricault, French drama- tist, his comedy of Philosophe Marié, ii. 23.
Devil, History of the, lost fragment of Gray's, i. 142.
Devonshire, Duke of, Head of the Treasury, ii. 292.
appoints Rev. W. Mason Chaplain in | Ordinary to George IL, ii. 326. gives a dinner to gentlemen attend- ing coronation of George III., iii. 114.
his seat at Chatsworth, iii. 134-136. death of William, 4th Duke, and the cause, iii. 176, 184.
value of his estate and his bequests, iii. 183, 184.
Diamantina, La, violinist, ii. 76. Dickens, Dr., reference to, ii. 118. Dillon, Mr. John, possessed and added
to the Dawson - Turner MSS. of Gray, iv. 339.
Dining, Couplet on, i. 141. Doctor of Laws, Gray's attachment to Cambridge induces him to decline, from the University of Aberdeen, the honorary degree of, ii. 219-220. Dodsley, Robert, prints the Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, ii. 211.
the printing of Gray's Odes, ii. 218. prints a collection of Miscellaneous Poems, including Gray, ii. 219. Gray offers to Horace Walpole some Odes for insertion in the Miscel- laneous Poems, ii. 226, 364. prints the Elegy with Bentley's de- signs, ii. 234.
references to, ii. 235, 339.
his conscience settled by Soame Jenyns work on Evil, ii. 310. how many copies of the Odes has he disposed of, out of the 2000? ii.
directed to distribute Gray's poems to certain persons, ii. 344. his play of Cleone, ii. 391. printing an edition of Gray contem- porary with the Glasgow edition of Foulis, iii. 286-287, 290. glutted the town with two editions, one of 1500 copies and one of 750, iii. 325. Dodwell, assists in the Chronological table of ancient authors, ii. 158.
Doncaster, aspect of the country near, ii. 247.
Doria, Andrea, reference to, ii. 48. Dorset, Ann, Countess of, Gray's ex- tempore Epitaph on, see Pem- broke, i. 140.
MS. sketch of her life by Mr. Sedg- wick, i. 279.
Dorset, Duke of, his distress on the misfortunes of Lord G. Sackville,
Douaniers, dragons of Turin, ii. 43. Douglas, a tragedy by John Home, ii. 360.
Douglas, Bishop, reference to his Pro-
logue to the 8th Eneid, i. 341. Dovedale and the Peak, visited by Gray and Dr. Brown, iii. 273. Doyly, Thomas, Fellow of St. John's, iii. 190.
Dragon, the red, device of Cadwal- lader, i. 70.
Druidical mythology, iii. 351. Druidicarum, Historia Vettm. Acade-
marium Gallæ, reference to, ii. 294. Druidis, Commentatio de, by Frickius, ii. 293.
Drummond, appointed Archbishop of York, iii. 105.
Drury Lane Theatre, Dr. Johnson's
prologue for the opening of, ii. 220. Dryden, John, compared with Cowley,
as a writer of sublime Odes, i. 36. his license of language in poetry, in- stances of, ii. 108.
his character disgraceful to the post of poet laureate, ii. 345.
his poems recommended by Gray to Dr. Beattie, iii. 222. Duclos's Memoires, reference to, ii, 291. Dufresne, Abraham Alexis Quinault, a member of the Comedie Françoise, ii. 23.
Dunbar, Lord, in attendance on The Pretender at Rome, ii. 85. Dunciad, The New, Gray's opinion of, ii. 105. Duncombe, Harry, friend of Rev. Nor. ton Nicholls, iii. 240. Dupplin, Thomas Henry Viscount, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 354. Durham, Dr. Richard Trevor, Bishop of, ii. 241.
Dr. Joseph Butler, Bishop of, ii. 241. fever in, ii. 245.
Durell, Commodore, reference to, iii. 9. D'Urry's edition of Chaucer's works, i. 306, 325.
describes a portrait of Chaucer at Chastleton, i. 306.
Dutch, probable settlement with, and | no war, ii. 392.
Du Vergy, the adventurer, in jail for debt, iii. 181.
Dyce, Rev. A., MS. copy of Gray's
Epitaph on a Child, i. 126.
MS. note as to the destruction of the autograph of The Characters of the Christ-Cross-Row, i. 210.
note on the cause of Richard West's death, ii. 113.
Dyer, John, author of Grongar Hill, reference to, ii. 220.
author of The Fleece, ii. 345.
EAGLES on Snowdon, i. 43. Ease, the mother of fine art, i. 119. Eckardt, J. G., H. Walpole's Epistle to, ii. 221.
his portrait of Gray, ii. 234. Edmondes, Sir T., State Papers of, ii. 281.
Edouard III., Gresset's tragedy of, ii. 186.
Education, thoughts on, i. 120. Education and Government, The Alliance of, a fragment, i. 113-117. editorial note on, i. 113. first published, 1775, i. 100. commentary by Gray, i. 117-119. its duties, i. 119.
Gray sends a copy to T. Wharton, ii.
Edward VI., his restrictions on dress, i. 318.
Effingham, Thomas Harcourt, Earl of, his part in the coronation of George III., iii. 115. Egmont, Lord, rumour that he will be Secretary of State, iii. 237. Egremont, Lord, his hanging woods near Ulleswater, i. 254. Egypt, Travels in, by Captain Norden, ii. 194.
translated by Templeman, iii. 1. Egyptian architecture, Dr. Pococke's prints on, ii. 255. Ekkehardus, monk of St. Gall, early authority on Latin rhyme, i. 379. Election time, letters apt to be opened at the offices during, ii. 249. Electress Palatine, Dowager, receives H. Walpole at Florence, ii. 54. Elegy in the Garden of a Friend, by Mason. Gray requests it for criti- cism, ii. 339.
Gray's criticism, ii. 357.
Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, text of the edition of 1768, i. 71-80.
advertisement to Dodsley's first edition, i. 217.
bibliographical note by Gray, i. 227. submitted to H. Walpole, ii. 209. H. Walpole requested to ask Dodsley to print it, ii. 210.
Magazine of Magazines and its pub- lication, ii. 210-211.
printed by Dodsley, with a preface by H. Walpole, ii. 211. errors of the text, ii. 213.
design by Bentley for, ii. 234; en- graved by J. S. Müller and Charles Grignion, ii. 234; the original drawings offered for sale in 1882, ii. 234.
Robert Lloyd publishes a Latin translation, iii. 128.
Eifrida, a drama by Mason, ii. 212,
Elisi, singer and actor, illness of, iii. 77. excellence of his singing, and his personal appearance, iii. 80. Elizabeth, Queen, her deportment on receiving Dzialinski of Poland, i. 49. Elizabethan State Papers, by William Murdin, ii. 396.
Ely visited by Gray, ii. 366. Emanuel College, portraits in, i. 309- 310.
Emile, Rousseau's, Gray's praise of, iii.
Encyclopedia, see French. English language too diffuse, ii. 111. Engravings, recommends their produc-
tion in Italy and France, those of England are woeful, iii. 165. Entail, The, a fable by H. Walpole, ii. 214.
Enthusiast, The, by J. Warton, ii. 121. Epicurus, ruinous effect of his doc- trine to society, i. 120. Epigram on the company at Cambridge University, 1768, iii. 296. Epitaph on a Child, i. viii. 126. Errol, Earl of, his appearance at the
coronation of George III., iii. 113. Erse Poems, publication of the, i. 311. testimony in favour of their authen- ticity, i. 311.
Gray charmed with two specimens of, iii. 45.
enquires of Walpole if the authors are known, and whether any more are to be had, iii. 45.
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