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 the Sonnet, i. 349.
Darlington, Lady, reference to, iii. 33. Darradar Liod, an Icelandic poem; see The Fatal Sisters, i. 52.
Darwin, Erasmus, his verses on death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii. 119.
D'Aubenton, his Histoire du Cabinet du
Roi, commended by Gray, ii. 199. D'Auvergne, Cardinal, attends a con- clave at Rome, ii. 67. Davanzati, his translation of Tacitus, ii. 111.
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 didactic poem of Gray's, see Cogitandi, ii. 104.
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 II., 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 Galla, 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, it. 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.
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.
Elegy, text of the first edition, i. 219-223. Pembroke text, i. 227-232. editorial note on, i. 72.
satirical criticism by Professor Young, i. 208.
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. 231; the original drawings offered for sale in 1882, ii. 234.
Robert Lloyd publishes a Latin translation, iii. 128.
Elfrida, a drama by Mason, ii. 212, 213; iii. 148.
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.
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.
Erse Poems, Gray obtains from Scot- | Exhibition of pictures for the first land, and reviews a third speci- men, iii. 47-48.
said to be translated by Macpherson, but Gray is much exercised as to their authenticity, iii. 51-52. publication of, iii. 56-57. David Hume's opinion as to their genuineness, cites persons who be- lieve in their antiquity, iii. 59, 65. subscription on foot to enable Mac- pherson to recover further frag- ments, iii. 59, 65.
Gray more puzzled than ever about their antiquity, iii. 61. second edition published, iii. 65, 69. admires nothing but "Fingal," iii. 84. Hurd writing against, iii. 129.
Gray's scepticism apparently re- moved, iii. 148. Erskine, Sir Henry, surveyor of roads, iii. 72.
unsuccessfully endeavours to obtain an appointinent for Gray, iii. 72, 136.
his marriage, iii. 104. Escalopier, Peter L', Theologia Vettm. Gallorum by, ii. 294.
Esher, Cardinal Wolsey's villa at, ii. 253. Essex, Lady, death of the gay, ii. 401. dies in childbirth, iii. 3. Essex, Lord, attempted suicide of Lady
M. Capel, his sister, ii. 274. Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times, by Rev. J. Brown, its popularity, ii. 310.
Estrées, Mad. d', and Henri IV., ii. 281. Eton College, fever among the boys of, ii. 340.
Eton College, Ode on the distant prospect of, i. 15-21.
editorial note on, i. 16. Etough, Rev. Henry, i. 139. Etrées, Marshal d', sends his surgeons to attend the Duke of Cumberland,
ii. 321. Ettrick, Mrs., sister to Dr. Wharton, references to, iii. 199, 200, 245, 320, 404.
Eusden, Rev. Laurence, poet laureate, ii. 345.
Evans, Dr., Gray's opinion of, ii. 220. Evelyn's work on Forest Trees; quota-
tion from relative to locality of the Elm, ii. 247.
Evil, The Origin of, by Soame Jenyns, ii. 310.
Dr. Johnson reviews it, ii. 310. settled Mr. Dodsley's conscience, ii. 310.
Eyres, Mr., reference to, iii. 319.
FABIAN, Alderman, extract from the Prologue to his Chronicle, i. 330. Fairfax, Thomas, Lord, monument of, in Ottley Church, i. 280. Fall of Princes, see Lydgate. Farinelli (Cario Broschi), sopranist, ii. 22, 57; iii. 80.
Farnham, Lord, insulted by an Irish mob, iii. 26.
Fashion of the country, the custom and dress of the previous genera- tion of the town, i. 404.
Fatal Sisters, The, an ode, i. 51-58. editorial note on, i. 52. paraphrase of "Darradar Liod," i. 52. Fauchet, President, reference to his Catalogue of Poets, i. 364.
his opinion that the rhyme of the Franks was largely borrowed by other nations, i. 368. Favonius, see West, Richard. Fawkes, Mr., his residence at, i. 280. Fellow-Commoners of Cambridge, their
riotous conduct, ii. 164.
Female sex, satire on, its gradual ex- tinction, i. 405.
Fen country visited by Gray, ii. 367. Fénel, Abbé, his Religion and Opinions of the Gauls, ii. 362-363. Ferdinand, Prince, preparing for a battle in Westphalia, ii. 402. his victory at Minden, ii. 7, 8. his conduct in Germany, iii. 27. his reward for Minden, iii. 27. treatment of Lord George Sackville, iii. 28.
Ferguson, Adam, his Essay on the His- tory of Civil Society, Gray's opinion of it, iii. 279.
Ferrers, Lord, his trial, iii. 35. Mason and Stonehewer present, iii. 35.
burning of his cell during his trial, iii. 35.
Field, Mr., friend of Dr. Wharton and of Gray, iii. 49.
Gray obtains some soap from him as a remedy for gout, etc., ii. 277. Fielding, Henry, Gray's opinion of Joseph Andrews, ii. 107.
and a paper on Message Cards, ii. 143. Finch, E., appointed surveyor of roads, iii. 72.
Fine Arts, see Paintings.
Fischer's concert, and Gugnani, iii. 317.
Fisher, Bishop, supposed portrait in | Foulis, Glasgow publisher of Gray's
St. John's College of, i. 311. Fitzherbert, Thos., his second son dies
from amputation of his leg, iii. 272. Fitzmaurice, Lord William, his rapid
military promotion, iii. 76. Fitz-Osborne's, Sir Thomas, Letters on various Subjects, by William Mel- moth, iii. 222.
Fitzroy, Mr., reference to, iii. 76. Flaubert, his temperament akin to Gray's, ii. 8.
Fleece, The, by John Dyer, ii. 345. Fleming, Sir Michael, his seat of Ri- dale-hall, i. 266.
Floods, great, in the country (1770),
has given Gray a specimen of natural history, which is a "jewell of a pismire," iii. 383.
his disappearance, iii. 384. Folk-lore, vision seen in Caithness on de- feat of Sigurd, Earl of Orkney, i. 54. Fontenelle, Gray's opinion of his man- ner of style, iii. 166.
Ford, Miss, a performer on musical glasses, iii. 124.
Foreigners, natural aversion to, iii. 156. Forrester, Rev. Richard, Fellow of Pembroke, ii. 288.
death of his sister, ii. 318.
vacates his fellowship and goes to Ashwell, Herts, ii. 346.
his patron, Lord Maynard, promotes him from Easton, iii. 140. mortal foe of his brother "Poulter," iii. 140.
reference to, iii. 63.
Forster, Mrs. (née Pattinson, Gray's
cousin), returns from India, ii. 201. to accommodate some of Gray's lum- ber, ii. 385.
Gray has kissed her at Dr. Wharton's instance, and forgot old quarrels, iii. 322.
Fortescue, Miss Lucy, afterwards Lady Lyttelton, ii. 180.
Fothergill, Dr., reference to, ii. 252, 259. Fotheringay visited by Gray, ii. 366.
Poems, iii. 285-287.
Gray's appreciation of him as a pub- lisher, iii. 290, 325.
offers to present Gray with his Homer
or the Greek Historians, iii. 346. new edition of Milton to which Gray wishes to subscribe, iii. 346. visited by Gray in Glasgow, iv. 343. Gray admired his academy of paint- ing, iv. 343.
Fountayne, Dean, reference to, iii. 82, 108.
Fox, Mr., unhappily criticises The Bard, ii. 328, 331.
Framlingham rectory in the gift of Pem- broke College, iii. 328. Frampton, Thomas, Fellow of St. John's, candidate for the Master- ship of St. John's with support of the Earl of Sandwich, iii. 190. note on, iii. 190.
France, Abrégé Chronologique de l'Hist. de, by President Henault, ii. 201. on the brink of a general bankruptcy, iii. 341.
people of the provinces starving on
the highways, iii. 384.
Etat de la, Gray commends it, ii. 128. Gray's Journal in, i. ix. 237-246. Gray gives detailed advice to the Rev.
Mr. Palgrave as to the places he should visit in, iii. 193. Account of Gray's journey through,
references by Gray to towns, etc., in:-
Abbeville, its description, ii. 18. Abbey of Carthusians, Dijon, ii. 31. Abbey of Cistercians, Dijon, ii. 32. Annecy, the residence of the exiled
Bishop of Geneva, i. 245. Ballet de la Paix, description of, ii. 21-22.
Beaune and Nuys, fertility of the country round, i. 242.
Burgundy, description of the coun- try, ii. 31.
united to crown of France, ii. 32. Calais, description of, ii. 16. Cenis, Mount, description of, ii. 41-42, 46, 59.
Châlons-sur-Marne, i. 239.
Chartreuse, Monastery of the Grande, its picturesque situa- tion on a mountain near Echel- les, i. 244.
reference to, ii. 36-37.
ascent of the mountain, ii. 35-36, 45, 58.
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