Professorship of Modern History, Gray
would not ask for it, not choosing
to be refused, iii. 21.
Gray's name suggested to Lord Bute
but refused, iii. 136-137.
conferred on Lawrence Brockett, in
succession to Shallet Turner, iii.
136.

MS. note of Gray relative to Dela-
val's candidature, iii. 140.
Gray succeeds Brockett, iii. 318.
Progress of Poesy, The, i. 27.
editorial note on, i. 28.

its composition delayed by a remark
of Mason, ii. 111.

submitted to Dr. Wharton, ii. 260.
aversion to its separate publication,
ii. 262.

Pronunciation, variation between the

time of Gray and of Lydgate, i. 393.
Propertius, translations from, i. viii.,
151-157.

printed from original MS.. i. 144.
sent by Gray to R. West, ii. 111.
influence of the style of Scaliger on,
ii. 112.

Prophecy (see The Bard), fragment sent
to Stonehewer, ii. 268.

Prose as well as verse should have its
rhythm, i. 314.

Prose, Gray's posthumous, i. xiv.
Provençal poetry, i. 367.

Prowse, Mr., refused the post office,
iii. 256.

Prussia, King of, see Frederick.
Public life, obligations incumbent on

one desiring to attain position in,
ii. 88.

Puisieux, Marquis de, his house at
Sillery, i. 239.

Pulpit, Gray's opinion of oratory in,

since the Revolution, iii. 81.
Pulteney, Earl Nugent's Ode to, ii. 220.
Puppet-Show, Rappresentazione d'un'
anima dannata, ii. 44.

the Italian, the reigning diversion,

iii. 356.

Purt, Rev. Robert, M.A., i. 85.
Puttenham's Art of Poetry, quotation
from, i. 329.

his influence on Sir Thomas Wyatt
and Lord Surrey, i. 334.
mistaken as to Riding Ryme, i. 335-337.

QUEBEC, compared to Richmond Hill,
iii. 34.

siege of, by the French, iii. 44-45.
alarm concerning, conduct of General
Murray, iii. 51.

Queen's College, founded by Margaret
of Anjou, i. 95.

added to by Elizabeth, Queen of
Edward IV., i. 95.

Queen's Hermitage, The, of Matthew
Green, ii. 222.

Queensberry, Duchess of, her quarrel
with Duchess of Marlborough, ii.
133.

condemns by advertisement a spuri-
ous edition of the last seven
years of Earl Clarendon's Life,
and notifies her early issue of his
biography, ii. 372.

friend of Pope and protector of Gay,
ii. 372.

her eccentricities, ii. 372.
Quinault, Jeanne Françoise, French
actress, ii. 23.

Quintilius Varus, his Piscina at
Tivoli, ii. 74.

RABY CASTLE, Leland's Account of, iii.
294-295.

Racine's Britannicus, quotation from,
ii. 167.

and reference to, ii. 233.

Radnor, Lord, Gray advises Wharton
to see the house of, ii. 253.
Ramsay, Mr., Gray's tenant in Corn-
hill, iii. 208.

Ramsden, Mr., optician, iii. 373.
Ramsgate, account of, and Sir. E.
Brydges's anecdote of Gray at, iii.
263.

Ranby, Mr. (King's Surgeon), Duke of
Cumberland sends for and then
countermands the attendance of,
ii. 321.

Randall, Dr. John, and the Installation
Ode, i. 92.

composed the music for the Ode, iii.
343.

Ranelagh Gardens, non-success, ii. 125.
reference to, ii. 134.

Raphaël, his vision of Ezekiel, i. 42.
figure of God in the vision of Ezekiel
furnished Gray with a model for
his Bard, ii. 313.
Rapin, Nicholas, French writer, re-
ference to, i. 341.

Ratcliffe, Mr., brother to Earl of Der-

wentwater, his execution, ii. 168.
Reed, Isaac, his note concerning the
quarrel between Gray and Walpole,
ii. 124.

Reinholt, Charles Frederick, popular
bass singer, sung in the Installation
Ode, iii. 343.

10th century taught to write Latin
rhyme, i. 379.

opinion of the rhyming epitaphs
at Canterbury, i. 379 380.
Additional observations from the
Cambri of Gray, i. 381-386.
ancient names of the Welch, i. 381.
prosodia of the Welch grammar the
finest in any language, i. 381.
harmony of the Druidical compo-
tions, i. 381

"Secret of the Poets "i. 382-383.
probability of the English borrow-
ing their rhyme from the Britons,
i. 383-385.
suggestion that the Franks obtained
their rhyme from this country,i.385.
rhyme preserved by the common
people, i. 386.

Rhyming, greater facility of the ancient
poets for, i. 395.
Rhythmus, Observations on the Pseu-
do-, i. 361-375.

ancient rhyme of the Emperor
Adrian, i. 361.

ancient rhyme of the Welch, i. 361.
Anglo-Saxon rhyme, its harmony
consisting in alliteration, i. 362.
Anglo-Saxon rhyme, its harmony
similarly practised by the Danes,
i. 362.

Anglo-Saxon and the Franco-Theo-
tische languages originally the
same, i. 364.

earliest extant Romaun or old French
verses, i. 364.

earliest Provençal writers, i. 364.
earliest Sicilian poets, i. 365.
earliest English rhyme, i. 365.
German rhyme the oldest extant, i.

365.

Walafrid Strabo and his contem-
porary writers call themselves Bar-
bari, i. 365.

period of Provençal poetry, i. 367
period of Sicilian poetry, 367.
late retention of the old Saxon or
Danish verse without rhyme, i. 368.
Language of the Gauls, i. 369.
the various dialects of the Romaun,

Rustica, Romana, Provençal, Va-
lonne, and the Langue Romande, i.
369.

VOL. IV.

Table showing the period of the in-
troduction of rhyme into various
countries, i. 371.

Provençals believed to have bor-
rowed the art of rhyme from the
Latin rather than from the Arabs
or Franks, i. 371-373.

first appearance of rhyming verses
in Latin epitaphs, etc., i. 372.
Latin rhyme, i. 373.

Leonine verse, i. 373; its supposed
origin, i. 373-375.

Leonimetes rhyme, i. 374.

Rima alla Provenzale, or verse-rhym-
ing in the middle in place of the
end, i. 373.

Rhyme of Bernard of Cluny in his
poem De Contemptu Mundi, i. 374-
375.

instance of mixture of different
languages in old composition, i.

375.

Ricciarelli, announced to sing the
Stabat Mater of Pergolesi, ii. 282.
description of his powers, ii. 282.
Richardson, Jonathan, the elder, the
painter, iii. 81.

Gray sits to him for his portrait, iii.81.
Richmond and Derby, Countess of,

mother of Henry VII., foundress
of St. John's College, i. 96.
Margaret, portrait of, i. 310.
Richmond, Dr. Richard, Bishop of

Soder and Man, chaplain to the
Duke of Athol, iii. 257.
Ridley, Mr., contributes to Dodsley's
Miscellaneous Poems, ii. 221.
Ridlington, Dr., Professor of Civil
Law, his recovery from dropsy,
iii. 188-189.

gone to Nice, iii. 208.

notes on, iii. 208, 254.

Rigby, Gloster, with Duke of Bedford
in Cambridge, ii. 309, 311.

escape of, from an Irish mob, iii. 26.
likely to be one of a new ministry,
iii. 153.

to move the expulsion of Wilkes,
iii. 332.
Rinuccini, Marquis, visits London, ii.
145.
Rivett, Nicholas, his work among the
Antiquities of Athens, ii. 283.
Robbery, liability in London to, iii. 14.
Roberts, Mr., of the Pell Office, relates

the cause of the quarrel between
Gray and Walpole, ii. 124.
Roberts, Rev. Mr., translated and pub-
lished Gray's Elegy in Latin, i.
257.

2 C

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,
ii. 396.
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.

SACKVILLE, Lord George, his conduct
at Minden, iii. 8.
arrival in

England, anticipates

court-martial, iii. 14.
reference to, iii. 25.

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.
384.

biographical note of, iii. 385.

St John's College, Cambridge, founded
by the Countess of Richmond, i.
96; her portrait in, i. 310.
portraits in library, i. 310-311.
St. Margaret, Life of, its age and style,
i. 357.

quotation from, i. 366.

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.
378.

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-
lime, iii. 219.

returned charmed with the High-
lands, iii. 223.

Italy can hardly excel its scenery,
iii. 223.

Gray will certainly go again, iii.
224.

a country that gave him much plea-
sure, iii. 279.

Gray's first visit to, iv. 343.

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.

Secretary of State, changes in 1766,
iii. 237.

Sedgwick, Mr., secretary to Anne,
Countess of Dorset, i. 279.
Selby, Bell, her dream of Mason, ii.
294.

Selwyn, George, present at the execu-
tion of Lord Lovat, ii. 142.
Senesino, nicknames of certain Italian
singers, ii. 65.

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
Harsch, iii. 9.

over

General

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.