are three Bolognese, of different characters, but

"all equally proper for the Popedom. If it be

your pleasure to pitch upon a saint, there is "Cardinal Gotti; if upon a politician, there is "Aldrovandi; if upon a booby (coglioni) here am "I." But to return:

"Unequal friendships," says Dr. Johnson, are easily dissolved." At Rheggio a disagreement arose between Gray and Mr. Walpole, originating, we are told, in the difference of their tempers (the former curious, pensive, and philosophical; the latter gay, lively, and, of course, inconsiderate); but the chief blame of this quarrel Mr. Walpole, who survived Mr. Gray, generously took to himself; and it gives us satisfaction to say, that a lasting reconciliation took place about

only an occasional laquais de voyage, lua, Verona, Milan, Turin, and Lyons, f his way to make a second visit to the hartreuse in Dauphiny, where he enAlbum of the Fathers with an Alcaic hy of the Augustan age, and marked finest touches of his melancholy muse. London, September 1, 1741.

arise from 1 indolence had led hin profession; and Country-house at Wa

ether his wife or son

e knew they would
executed. This buil
ate in life, was atter
pence, which migh

rrival he found his father's constitution n out by the very severe attacks of the ich he had been for many years subndeed, the next return of that disorder him. He died the 6th of November at the age of 65.

Loney thrown away

ound necessary to s and pounds less th Gray, therefore, at t small, that it wou prosecute the stu

ing burdensome These two sisters ha

* See p. 112.

indolence had led him to neglect the business o his profession; and his obstinacy, to build country-house at Wanstead, without acquainting either his wife or son with the design (to which he knew they would be very averse) till it wa executed. This building, which he undertook late in life, was attended with very considerable expence, which might almost be called so much money thrown away; for, after his death, it was found necessary to sell the house for two thou sand pounds less than its original cost. Gray, therefore, at this time found his patrimony so small, that it would by no means enable him to prosecute the study of the law, without becoming burdensome to his Mother and Aunt, These two sisters had for many years carried on

Mr

could not easily retrie borious a study as that be the object of i vitever improveme interval, either in

Sister, Mrs. Rogers, lately become a
oth of them wished Mr. Gray to fol-
fession for which he had been origi-
ed, and would undoubtedly have con-
in their power to enable him to do it
d conveniency. He, however, though
en his resolution of declining it, was
to hurt two persons for whom he had
_n affection, by peremptorily declar-
intentions; he therefore changed, or
O change, the line of that study; and,
the latter end of the subsequent year
Cambridge to take his Bachelor's De
1 Law.

provement would sta regard to his presen Yet this was not all: be found, on his retu ad of family mist azing heart of Mr. all in his power (fo London) to soothe

kind of India warehouse on Cornhill, under the joint d Antrobus.

t

to try to alleviate prest and most pe Fere vain. The di ad already too far

could not easily retrieve, when so severe and l borious a study as that of the Common Law w

to be the object of it; and he well knew tha whatever improvement he might have made this interval, either in taste or science, such in provement would stand him in little stead wi regard to his present situation and exigencie Yet this was not all: His other friend, Mr. We he found, on his return, oppressed by sickness an a load of family misfortunes. These the symp thizing heart of Mr. Gray made his own. He d all in his power (for he was now with him. London) to soothe the sorrows of his friend, an to try to alleviate them by every office of t purest and most perfect affection: But his car were vain. The distresses of Mr. West's mi had already too far affected a body, from the fir