Newcastle, Duke of, attends divine ser-
vice since the death of his sister,
Lady Castlecomer, iii. 3.
his fear of spirits, iii. 3.

Lord Holland's character of, iii. 42.
Gray calls Cambridge "old Fobus's
owl's nest," iii. 45.

reference to, as Fobus, ii. 353; iii. 50,
63, 76, 105.

talks of resigning, iii. 76.
references to, ii. 193, 204.
Newcombe, Dr. John, Master of St.

John's College and Dean of
Rochester, his death and bio-
graphical note, iii. 189.

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

Miss Kirke and Richard Beadon his
executors, iii. 189.

New Legation, by Dr. Warburton, ii.
369.

Newmarket, tapestry of the marriage

of Henry VI. in the Red Lion Inn
at, iii. 307.

Gray and the King of Denmark at,
iii. 330.

Duke of Cumberland at, iii. 66.
Newnham, Lord, in ill health, iii. 224;
see also Nuneham.

Newspapers in London of 1761, iii. 123.
Newton appointed Bishop of Bristol
and residentiary of St. Paul's, iii.
105.

offered the Archbishopric of Armagh,
iii. 201.

Niccolina (opera singer), her justness
of ear, vivacity and variety of ges-
ture, iii. 157.

her victory over a prejudiced audi-
ence, iii, 157.
Nicholls, Dr., expelled from Cambridge
for stealing books, iii. 245.
Nicholls's, Rev. Norton, verses on birds
composed in his hearing, i. 139.
thanks Gray for Mason's hospitality
at York, iii. 191.

illness and recovery of his mother,
iii. 238.

at Studley, iii. 240.

Nicholls, Rev. Norton, Gray congratu-
lates him on his rectory, iii. 284.
Gray advises him as the mediator
between Lord Lisburne and Mr.
Temple, iii. 287-289, 332-333.
Gray's opinion of the dispute, iii.
302-303.

offered a travelling companionship
by Mr. Barrett, iii. 324.
invitation and acceptance to visit
Cambridge, iii. 330, 337, 382-383.
congratulated by Gray on having a
garden, ii. 342.

agrees to visit Wales with Gray in
the summer of 1770, iii. 363.
invited by Gray to go a tour in mid-
land counties, iii. 375.

accompanies Gray thither, iii. 380.
Gray advises him of the French
classics, iii. 389.

intention to visit Bonstetten in
Switzerland, iii. 394.

urged to curb Bonstetten by his
counsel, iii. 401.

Gray asks for minute details of his
travels, iii. 406.

his MS. Recollections of Gray, in the
possession of Mr. John Morris, iv.
343.

Mr. John Morris possesses Gray's
MS. letters to, iv. 340.
Niflheimr, the hell of Gothic nations,
i. 61.
Niphausen mentions that the King of
Prussia will issue an account of
his campaign, ii. 372.
Noble, Mr., reference to, ii. 294.
Nonius, Marcellus, his couplet on a
dimple, ii. 113.

Noontide, an Ode (Ode on the Spring),

i. 3.

advice as to obtaining occupation,
and his interim acceptance of a
curacy, iii. 254.

presented by his uncles to the
rectories of Sound and Bradwell,
Suffolk, iii. 260.

rents a seat at Blundeston, iii. 260.

gives a sinecure to Mason, iii. 139.
Norton, Sir Fletcher, Solicitor-General,
political opponents shrink under
his brazen hand, iii. 172.
anecdote of his parsimony, iii. 176.
Notredame, Jean de, reference to his
Lives of the Provençal Poets, i
367.

Occleve, his portrait of Chaucer, i.
305-306.

Ode in the Greek manner, see Progress
of Poetry, i. 28.

Ode (to his embryo muse), i. 205-207.
editorial note on, 205.
Odes, the Pindaric (The Fatal Sisters

and The Descent of Odin), reason
for the notes to, iii. 289-290.
Odes, printed by Walpole and pub-

lished by Dodsley, ii. 319, 321, 322.
public opinion on, ii. 323-326.
admired by Garrick and Warburton,
ii. 325.

Gray received forty guineas for, ii.
330.

slow sale of, iii. 53.

meant to be vocal to the intelligent:
alone, iii. 148.

Odikle, Gray's nickname for The Bard,
i. 40.

Odin, The Descent of, an Ode, i. 59.
editorial note on, i. 60.
Ogden, Dr., his quarrel at the Com-
mons, iii. 63.

his estimation of the Rev. Mr. Lud-
lam, iii. 144.

candidate for Mastership of St.
John's, iii. 190.

Oliffe, Mrs., Gray's aunt, ii. 383.

joint executor with Gray to Mrs.
Rogers, ii. 384.
reference to, iii. 375.
Olympiade, the opera of, ii. 133.
Ombre, a game played in Turin, ii. 44.
Onley, Charles, Fellow of Pembroke

College, Gray suggests him as tutor
to the nephew of Lord John Caven-
dish, iii. 58.

to young Ponsonby, iii. 67.
Onslow, Mr. (the Speaker's son), Groom
of the Bedchamber, ii. 290.
Opera house, popularity in 1761, iii. 80.
success maintained by a few par-

ticular voices rather than by
genuine love for Italian music, iii.
157.

opens with Manzuoli, iii. 181.
Opera in Paris (1739), account of, ii.
21-22, 56.

Oroonoko, tragedy by T. Southerne, ii.

11.

Orthography of the text, i. xvi.
Osborn, reference to, iii. 69.
Ossian, Poems of, see Erse and Mac-
Pherson.

Otfrid of Weisenburgh, his paraphrase
of the Gospels in rhyme, i. 363.
quotation from, i. 363.

Ottava Rima Measure, its introduc-
tion, i. 347.

Ottoboni, Cardinal Pietro, death of, ii.
63.

Owen, The Triumphs of, a fragment, i. 67.
Owl. Gray keeps one, and compares
it to himself, ii. 369.

PAGANINI, Signora, her appearance in
burlettas, iii. 77.

Gray delighted with her excellence,

iii. 81.

Painted glass, see Glass.
Painters, Gray's Essay to Walpole on his
Lives of the, i. 303-321.

MS. of the Essay possessed by Mr.
Morris, iv. 340.

Painting and sculpture; hard to say

why they have made no advance
in England, iii. 158.

Paintings, Gray's table of subjects,

suitable for the style of various old
masters, iii. 194-197.
Palgrave, Rev. William, at Scar-
borough, ii. 378.

Fellow of Pembroke College, and
rector of Palgrave and Thrande-
ston, ii. 379.

Gray writes him a facetious letter
enquiring about his Scotcb tour,
ii. 379.

entertains Rev. J. Brown, iii. 38.
his MS. diaries, iii. 70.

at Geneva, and travelling through
Switzerland, iii. 174.

Gray gives him detailed advice of the
places he should visit in France
and Italy, iii. 193-196.

Pagrave, Rev. William, his return, iii.
208.

visits Glamis and Newby, iii. 256-
257, 258.

going to Ranelagh and the opera, iii.
268.

connections of his family, iii. 284.
his elder brother, who took the name
of Sayer, dangerously ill, iii. 284.
the strange casualties of his house-
hold, iii. 382.

Palma, old, remarks on his skill as a
painter, ii. 389.

Pamfilio, Prince, his palace at Rome,
ii. 97.

Pandore, description of its representa-
tion, ii. 21.

Panmure, Lord, reference to, and Tom
Lyon, iii. 257.

Pattinson, see Mrs. Forster.
Pausanias, a tragedy, by R. West, ii. 103
Payne, Mrs., a friend of Dr. T. Whar-
ton's, ii. 359.

Pearce, Zachary, Bishop of Rochester,
his confusion at coronation of
George III., iii. 113.

note on, iii. 113.

Peck, Fellow of Trinity College, iii. 324.
Peele, Theophilus, of Cambridge, refer-
ence to, ii. 155.

interests himself on behalf of C.
Smart, ii. 178.

settlement of his dispute with Dr.
Long, ii. 188.

Pembroke and Montgomery, Epitaph
on Anne, Countess of, i. 278.
MS. sketch of her life by her Secre-
tary, i. 279.

310.

Paper from silk rags, iii. 40.

Paraphrases from Petrarca, bv Gray, i.

194; from Anthologia Græca, i.

195-202.

Paris, Alexandre de, his poem of the
Roman d'Alexandre, i. 357.
Paris, Dr. Ayrton, relates the manner

in which the College of Surgeons
obtained Hunter's Museum, ii. 68.
Park Place, near Henley, residence of
General Conway and Lady Ailes-
bury, ii. 42.

Parker, Mr., lord of the manor of
Ingleton, i. 275.

Parmegiano's picture of Moses fur-
nishes a model for Gray's Bard, ii.
313.

Parnell Remains, the dunghill of Irish
Grub Street, ii. 372.
Parody on an epitaph, i. 140.
editorial note on, i. 140.
Parrs, chapel of the, in Kendal church,
i. 269.

Parry, John, blind harper, his concert
inspired Gray to finish the Bard,
i. 40.

visits Cambridge, ii. 312.

father of John Parry, A. R.A., ii. 312.
Parthenay, Des Roches de, his trans-

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

Pasquier, reference to his Recherches, i.
332, 341.

Passerat, French poet, reference to, i.
341.

Patrizii, Count, great ball given at
Rome by, 11. 84.
Patterson, Mrs., friend of Dr. T. Whar-
ton's, ii. 359.

de Valentia, i. 95; ii. 280.
possesses MS. of Ode on the Spring,
i. 2; Ode on the death of a favourite
Cat, i. 10; Distant Prospect of Eton
College, i. 16; Hymn to Adversity, i.
24; The Fatal Sisters, i. 52; Elegy
written in a Churchyard, i. 72; A
Long Story, i. 82: Sonnet on the
death of Richard West, i. 110; by
Stonehewer of Gray's Pleasures
from Vicissitude, i. 123; A Song, i.
138.

The Bard, finished at, i. 40.
comic lines written at, i. 138.
facetious description of the settle-

ment of a dispute at, ii. 188.
Gray becomes a resident of, ii. 279.
Gray's description of, iii. 150.
Peu broke, Henry, Earl of, deserts his

wife and elopes with Kitty Hunter,
iii. 132.

Penn, Mr., his residence at Stoke, i. 83.
Perch, receipt to dress, i. 263-264.
Peregrine Pickle, Sinollett's, ii. 214.
Pergolesé, Giambattista, his songs, ii.

133.

Pescetti, Giambattista, operatic com-
poser, ii. 133.
Peterborough, visited by Gray, ii. 366.
Peterborough, Lord, story of his bar-
gaining for a canary in Pall Mall,
ii. 100-101.

Peterhouse College, The Bard com-
menced at, i. 40.

Hymn to Ignorance, written at, i. 111.
use of iron bar in Gray's window at,
ii. 277.

Gray quits it for Pembroke College,
ii. 279.

humorous description of its quad-
rangle, ii. 14.

Petrarch, L'Abbé de Sade Mémoires

pour la Vie de François Petrarque,
Gray has been reading, iii. 236.
Peyriere, Baronne de la, iii. 127.
"Ministress at London," iii. 236.
become a Catholic, iii. 236.
her pets, iii. 236.

Phelps, Mr., about to issue an account

of Sicily, iii. 85.

Philips and Smith, reference to, ap-

pearing in the same volume, i. 212.
Philosophe Marié, the comedy of, i. 23.
Philosopher, endowments necessary to
form a, iii. 361.

Philosophic Dictionary of Voltaire,
reference to, iii. 187.
Philosophy, Gray's vindication of, ii.

167.

Philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke, Essay
on the, i. 286.

published on Mason's authority, i.
286.

influence of Conyers Middleton ap-
parent in, i. 286.
Piazza, Hieronimo Bartolomeo, Gray's
Italian master, ii. 3.
Pictures, first exhibition of, iii. 65.
Pilkington, Mrs. Lætitia, and Cibber,
ii. 169.

her memoirs, ii. 169.
Pinkerton, John, his forgery of the

second part of Hardicanute, con-
fessed in the Maitland Poems, iii. 46.
Pitt, the elder, afterwards Earl of
Chatham, paymaster of the forces,
his dismissal, ii. 273.

Secretary of State, ii. 292.

ill of the gout, ii. 292.

Pitt, the elder, complains of the in-
glorious peace, iii. 137.

styled by Count Algarotti "Resitu-
tor d'Inghilterre," iii. 151.
inclination to injure his fame, iii. 167.
report that he lies dangerously ill,
iii. 203.

"when he is gone, all is gone," iii. 203.
speaks for three and a half hours on

the rights of the colonies, iii. 234.
Gray laments his acceptance of a
peerage, iii. 243.

breach with Lord Temple, iii. 243.
his restored popularity, iii. 246.
everything is in Lord Chatham's
breast, iii. 255.

mending slowly in health, iii. 270.
Pitt, J. (Lord Camelford), his story
of Lady M. Wortley Montagu, iii.

Plummer, Mr., reference to, ii. 239.
Plumptre, Dr. Robert, sits for his por

trait to Benj. Wilson, iii. 16.
biographical note, iii. 16.
Pocock, Dr. Richard, Bishop of Ossory
and Meath, reference to, iii. 2.
Poems, statement of the source of the
present text, i. xiii.-xiv.
Gray agrees to the Glasgow edition
in deference to Dr. Beattie, iii. 285-
287.

Poésies, Gresset's, ii. 186.
Poetic license, Gray advocates, i. 397.

his popularity tottering, iii. 91.
and the Spanish quarrel, iii. 116.
publication of his negotiations with

the French, iii. 122.
his resignation, iii. 123.

i. 208.

Poet laureate. Gray's opinion of the
office, ii. 344-345.

hitherto humbled the professor, ii.345.
Poets, a fig for those who have not

been among the mountains, iii. 223.

Poetry, reference to Puttenham's Art
of, i. 329, 330, 331.
reference to Ronsard's Art of, i. 332.
Poetry, the language of the age never
the language of, ii. 108.
possesses a language peculiar to it-
self, ii. 108.

use of the Strophe and Anti-strophe,
ii. 263.

the Lyric style in contrast to the
Epic, ii. 304-305.

nature of the Lyric, ii. 352-353.
Gray's faculty by no means volun-
tary, but the result of a certain
disposition of mind, ii. 366.
Gray does not know a Scotchman of
his own period who could read,
much less write, iii. 56.
what its production implies, iii. 156.
Gray once contemplated a history of
English; sketch of his design, iii.
365-367.

Poland, King of, and the King of
Prussia, ii. 291.

Porto Bello, capitulation of, ii. 70.
Portraits, Gray considers it strange

that they should be preferred to
contemporary descriptions, iii. 24.
Portsdown Hills, description of the
view from the, ii. 265.

Portugal, King of, seizes conspirators
at Lisbon, ii. 392.

and Tavora family, ii. 392-396.
Post-chaises in France, description of
(1739), ii. 17.

Posthumous Poems, i. 99-142.
editorial note on, i. 100.
note on, i. 142.

Potter, Archbishop, his proviso, ii. 240.
Pottinger, Richard, reference to, iii.

41.

Pouilly, Mons. Levesque de, i. 239.
Powell, William Samuel, Master of St.
John's College, his candidature,
iii. 190.

has the Duke of Newcastle's support,
iii. 191.

note on, iii. 190.

chase pictures, iii. 307.

Political affairs, Gray ashamed of his
country, iii. 166.

nation in the same hands as the uni-
versity, iii. 172.

resembles first years of Charles I.'s
time, iii. 172.

reference to, iii. 204.

condition of, in March, 1766, iii. 233-
234.

Polymetis, by Joseph Spence, ii. 170.
Pompey's villa, ii. 78.

Pompey the Little, history of; or, The
Life and Adventures of a Lap Dog,
ii. 214.

Pond, Mr., frontispieces supplied by,
i. 212.

Ponsonby, William, Lord, his son, iii.57.
Pope, Alexander, his Ode on St. Cecilia's

Day compared with Dryden's, i. 36.
his license of language in poetry, ii.
108.

his defence by Warburton, ii. 131.
Odyssey, Essay on, by J. Spence, ii. 170.
Duchess of Queensberry his friend,
ii. 372.
Pope Benedict XIV., his election, de-
scription of his person, ii. 93, 98.
Pope Clement XII., death of, i. 63.
Porte, Memoires de M. de la, Gray re-
commends, ii. 291.

Portia, Cardinal, death of, ii. 84.
Portland, William, second Duke of, his

eldest daughter marries Lord Wey-
mouth, ii. 395.

of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, iii.

173.

Prayer, Treatise on, ii. 217.
Prendergast, Sir Thomas, insulted by
an Irish mob, iii. 26.

Pretender. The, James Edward (Le
Chevalier St. George), ii. 68.
English correspondence pass through
his hands before leaving Rome, ii.
68.

and his family present at a ball
given by Count Patrizii, ii. 76-85.
and the Grand Chancellorship at
Rome, ii. 94.

his relations with English society in
Rome, ii. 187.
Prevost Abbé,

François,

Antoine
d'Exiles, ii. 21.
biographical note on, ii. 21.
Price, Mr., glass painter of Hatton
Garden, iii. 102.

worked at the windows of West-
minster Abbey, iii. 102.
Pricket, Dr. Marmaduke, death of, ii.
244.

Pride a sign of folly, ii. 246.
Prince of Wales to have £40,000 a
year (1756), ii. 290.

Prince Edward £5000 a year, ii. 290.
Pringle, Dr. Sir J., medical adviser
of H. Walpole and Dr. J. Brown,
iii. 250.

attends the Prince of Wales, iii. 256.
Pritchard, Mrs., and Delap's Hecuba,
iii. 128.