Published as the Act directs by Vernor Hood&Sharpe. 3 Poultry, May 1,1807

WORKS

OF

THOMAS GRAY;

Containing his

POEMS, AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH SEVERAL EMINENT
LITERARY CHARACTERS.

To which are added,

MEMOIRS

OF

HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,

BY W. MASON, M. A.

THE THIRD EDITION, CAREFULLY CORRECTED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; J. WALKER; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; J. MURRAY;

AND J. BOOKER;

At the Union Printing-Office, St. John's Square, by W. Wilson.

KPE 1088(2),

HARVARD UN ERSITY LIBRARY DEC 28 1955

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CONTENTS.

LETTER 10. To Mr. WEST.-Of his own peculiar species of

melancholy. Inscription for a wood in Greek Hexameters.—

Argument and exordium of a Latin Heroic Epistle from So-

phonisba to Massinissa

p. 1

Account of Mr. WEST's death.-Of Mr. Gray's English Poetry,

written about this time, with the general plan, argument of the

first book, and all the parts which the Author finished of a

Latin Didactic Poem, "De Principiis Cogitandi"

p. 7

SECTION IV.

Prefatory narrative.—Mr. Gray takes his degree in Civil Law,

and makes Cambridge his principal residence for the rest of his

life. The Editor of these Memoirs becomes acquainted with

him in the year 1747.-He corresponds with Dr. Wharton and

several other persons till the year 1768, when he is appointed

Professor of Modern History

p. 23

LETTER 1. To Dr. WHARTON, on taking his degree of Bachelor

of Civil Law

p. 27

Fragment of an Hymn to Ignorance

p. 30

LETTER 3. To Dr. WHARTON.-His amusements in Town.-

Reflections on riches.-Character of Aristotle

LETTER 4. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Ridicule on Cibber's Observa-

tions on Cicero.-On the modern Platonic Dialogue.-Account

of his own and Mr. West's poetical compositions

LETTER 2. To Dr. WHARTON.-Ridicule on University lazi-

ness.-Of Dr. Akenside's Poem on the Pleasures of Imagi-

nation

p. 32

p. 35

p. 38

LETTER 5. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Criticisms on Mr. Spence's

Polymetis

P. 42

LETTER 6. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Ludicrous compliment of con-

dolence on the death of his favourite Cat, inclosing an Ode on

that subject

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p. 45

LETTER 7. To Dr. WHARTON.-Loss by fire of a house in Corn-

hill.-On Diodorus Siculus.-M. Gresset's Poems.-Thomson's

Castle of Indolence.-Ode to a Water-Nymph, with a character

of its Author

LETTER 8. To Dr. WHARTON.-More on M. Gresset.-Account

of his own projected Poem on the alliance between government

and education

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p. 47

p. 49

Fragment of that Poem, with a commentary, notes, and detached

sentiments relative to it

P. 53

LETTER 9. To Dr. WHARTON.-Character of M. de Montes-

quieu's L'Esprit des Loix

p. 64

LETTER 10. To Dr. WHARTON.-Account of books continued.-