1 2. On the Death of a Favourite Cat 3. On a distant Prospect of Eton College SonNet on the Death of Mr. West . 59 67 MEMOIRS.SECTION I. INTRODUCTION.-Mr. Gray's birth.--Education at Eton, where he commences a friendship with the Hon. Horace Walpole, and Mr. Richard West.--Account of the latter, with whom and with Mr. Walpole a correspondence begins on their leaving school, and going to the university p. 127 p. 133 LETTER 1. From Mr. West.-Complains of his friend's si lence LETTER 2. To Mr. West.-Answer to the former.-A transla tion of some lines from Statius LETTER 3. From Mr. West,-Approbation of the version. Ridicule on the Cambridge Collection of Verses on the marriage of the Prince of Wales p. 134 p. 138 Preface of the Editor to the subsequent letter p. 140 p. 141 p. 143 p. 146 P. 148 LETTER 4. To Mr. West.-On the little encouragement which he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge.--His aversion to metaphysical and mathematical studies LETTER 5. From Mr. West.-Answer to the former, advises his correspondent not to give up Poetry when he applies himself to the Law LETTER 6. To Mr. WALPOLE.--Excuse for not writing to him, &c. LETTER 7. From Mr. West.-A poetical epistle addressed to his Cambridge friends, taken in part from Tibullus and a prose letter of Mr. Pope LETTER 8. To Mr. West.—Thanks him for his poetical epistle. --Complains of low spirits.--Lady Walpole's death, and his concern for Mr. H. Walpole Letter 9. To Mr. WALPOLE.How he spends his own time in the country.-Meets with Mr. Southern, the dramatic poet p. 154 LETTER 10. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Supposed manner in which Mr. Walpole spends his time in the country p. 157 LETTER 11. From Mr. West.--Sends him à translation into Latin of a Greek epigram p. 158 LETTER 12. To Mr. West.–A Latin epistle in answer to the p. 153 p. 164 foregoing LETTER 13. From Mr. West, on leaving the University, and removing to the Temple P. 160 P. 162 p. 167 LETTER 14. To Mr. West.-A Sapphic Ode, occasioned by the preceding letter, with a Latin postscript, concluding with an Alcaic fragment LETTER 15. From Mr. West.-Thanks for his Ode, &c.-His idea of Sir Robert Walpole LETTER 16. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Congratulates him on his new place.-Whimsical description of the quadrangle of Peter House LETTER 17. To Mr. West.-On his own leaving the Univer sity LETTER 18. From Mr. West.–Sends him a Latin Elegy in answer to Mr. Gray's Sapphic Ode p. 173 p. 169 p. 171 Short Narrative concluding the Section p. 175 SECTION II. p. 177 p. 179 Connecting Narrative.—Mr. Gray goes abroad with Mr. Walpole. -Corresponds, during his tour, with his parents and Mr. West LETTER 1. To his Mother.—His voyage from Dover.-De scription of Calais.—Abbeville.—Amiens.-Face of the country, and dress of the people LETTER 2. To Mr. West.—Monuments of the kings of France at St. Denis, &c.--French Opera and Music.-Actors, &c. p. 182 LETTER 3. To Mr. West.–Palace of Versailles.-Its gardens and water-works.—Installation of the Knights du S. Esprit p. 187 LETTER 4. To his MOTHER.-Rheims.—Its cathedral.-Dis. position and amusements of its inhabitants LETTER 5. To his Father.-Face of the country between Rheims and Dijon.-Description of the latter.--Monastery of p. 191 p. 199 the Carthusians and Cistercians LETTER 6. To Mr. West.-Lyons.-Beauty of its environs. Roman antiquities p. 194 P. 196 p. 226 . p. 201 p. 204 . p. 207 p. 210 Lerter 7. From Mr. West.-His wishes to accompany his friend.--His retired life in London.--Address to his Lyre, in Latin Sapphics, on the prospect of Mr. Gray's return LETTER 8. To his MOTHER.-Lyons.—Excursion to the Grande Chartreuse.—Solemn and romantic approach to it.-His recep tion there, and commendation of the monastery LETTER 9. To his FATHER.—Geneva.—Advantage of a free government exhibited in the very look of the people.-Beauty of the lake, and plenty of its fish LETTER 10. To his MOTHER.- Journey over the Alps to Turin. --Singular accident in passing them.—Method of travelling over mount Cenis LETTER 11. To Mr. West.-Turin.-Its Carnival.-More of the views and scenery on the road to the Grande Chartreuse.-Wild and savage prospects amongst the Alps agreeable to Livy's description LETTER 12. To Mr. West.--Genoa.-Music.—The Doge. Churches and the Palazzo Doria LETTER 13. To his MOTHER.–Paintings at Modena.- Bologna. - Beauty and richness of Lombardy LETTER 14. To his MOTHER.—The Apennines.--Florence and its gallery LETTER 15, To Mr. West.— Journey from Genoa to Florence. -Elegiac verses occasioned by the sight of the plains where the battle of Trebiæ was fought LETTER 16. From Mr. West.—Latin Elegy, expressing his wishes to see Italy and Greece LETTER 17. To his MOTHER.Death of the Pope.-Intended departure for Rome.-First and pleasing appearance of an Ita lian spring LETTER 18. To his MOTHER.-Cathedral of Sienna.-Viterbo. --Distant sight of Rome.—The Tiber.- Entrance into the city.-St. Peter's.--Introduction of the Cardinal d'Auvergne into the Conclave P. 214 p. 216 p. 219 P. 222 p. 223 p. 225 p. 231 P. 232 p. 237 p. 243 LETTER 19. To his MOTHER.-Illumination of St. Peter's on Good-Friday, &c. LETTER 20. To Mr. West.-Comic account of the palace of the Duke of Modena at Tivoli.The Anio.-Its cascade.Situation of the town.- Villas of Horace and Mæcenas, and other remains of antiquity.--Modern aqueducts.-A grand Roman Ball LETTER 21. To Mr. West.-- An Alcaic Ode.--Ludicrous allu sion to ancient Roman customs.--Albano and its lake.-CastleGondolfo.-Prospect from the palace; an observation of Mr. Walpole's on the views in that part of Italy.-Latin inscriptions, ancient and modern LETTER 22. To his MOTHER.-Road to Naples. Beautiful si tuation of that city.-Its bay.-Of Baix, and several other antiquities.-Some account of the first discovery of an ancient town, now known to be Herculaneum LETTER 23. To his FATHER.-Departure from Rome and return to Florence.—No likelihood of the Conclave's rising. Some of the Cardinals dead. -Description of the Pretender, his sons, and court.-Procession at Naples.-Sight of the King and Queen. Mildness of the air at Florence LETTER 24. From Mr. West.--On his quitting the Temple, and reason for it LETTER 25. To Mr. WEST.-Answer to the foregoing letter. Some account of Naples and its environs, and of Mr. Walpole’s P. 247 p. 250 and his return to Florence LETTER 26. To his MOTHER.-Excursion to Bologna.-Election of a Pope; description of his person, with an odd speech which he made to the Cardinals in the Conclave LETTER 27. To Mr. West.-Description in Latin Hexameters of the sudden rising of Monte Nuovo near Puzzoli, and of the destruction which attended it LETTER 28. To his FATHER._Uncertainty of the route he shall take in his return to England.-Magnificence of the Italians in their reception of strangers, and parsimony when alone.--The p. 252 p. 257 P. 260 |