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FORD, Rev. Edward, M.A., Fellow of
Trinity College, Dublin, iii. 5 n. 4.
FOREST HILL, i. 104 n. 6.
FORKS, iii. 29 n. 6.

FORTESCUE, Miss Lucy, see LYTTELTON,
Lady.

FORTESCUE, William, Master of the Rolls,
ii. 355 n. 3, iii. 144.

FORTESCUE, Mr. G. K., i. 485.
FORT ST. GEORGE, i. 159.
Fossilist, ii. 271 n. 6.

FOSTER, Elizabeth, Milton's grand-daughter,
account of her, i. 159; anecdotes of Milton,
131 n. 5, 139 n. 1, 159; Birch, Dr., visited
by, 159 n. 2; Comus played for her benefit,
160; Johnson's Prologue for it, 150 n. 1, 160.
FOSTER, Dr. James, Nonconformist preacher,
ii. 387 n. 1, iii. 307.

FOSTER, Lord Chief Justice, i. 304 n. 3.
FOSTER, Thomas, i. 159.

FOULKES, Rev. Peter, of Christ Church,
Oxford, ii. 13.

FOWEY, ii. 291.

FOWKE, Martha, Thomson's Mira,' iii. 286
n. 3.

Fox, Charles James, Burke and Salmasius,
i. 112 n. 1; Dryden's prose and Burke's, 418
n. 5; music, no relish for, iii. 228 n. 5;
Paradise Lost, i. 183 n. 4.

Fox, George, ii. 220 n. 5.

Fox, Henry, first Lord Holland, Pope,
attacks, iii. 449; P., lampooned by, 180.
Fox, Sir Stephen, ii. 324 n. 4, 436.
FRANCINI, i. 94.

FRANKLIN, Benjamin, compared by Wed-
derburne to 'Zanga' in Young's Revenge, iii.
397 n. 5; Defoe and Swift, influenced by,

52 n. 2.

FRANKLIN, Richard, the bookseller, iii. 407.
FREDERIC THE GREAT, i. 177 n. 4.
Freethinker, The, iii. 322.

FREIND, John, editor of Demosthenes, ii.

13.

FREIND, Dr. Robert, head master of West-
minster, ii. 30, 195 n. 5, iii. 343.

FRENCH WORDS, use of, i. 464.

FRIENDSHIP, not always sequel of obliga-
tion, iii. 295; veracity not secured by it, 207;
unequal friendships, easily dissolved, 422.
FULFORD, William, editor of The Oxford
and Cambridge Magazine, iii. 360.

FULLER, Thomas, birthplace, same as Dry-
den's, i. 331 n. 3; a good hypocrite,' iii. 55
n. 2; saying regarding learning, ii. 156.

GALILEO, i. 96, 97 n. I.
GALLIARD, Mr., ii. 160 n. 5.
GALLIGASKINS, i. 324.

GAOL-FEVER, ii. 345 n. 4, 346 n. 1.
GARCILASSO, i. 193 n. 6.

GARDEN HOUSE, i. 98 n. 2, 126 n. 6.
GARRICK, David, 'Alfred' in Mallet's play,
iii. 404 n. 6, 405; 'Bayes' in Rehearsal, i.

368 n. 8; Britannia, Mallet's, prologue in,
iii. 408 n. 2; Congreve and Shakespeare, ii.
229 n. 2; death 'eclipsed the gaiety of
nations,' 21; Dryden, extolls, i. 464 n. 5;
D.'s Observations on Rymer's Tragedies, 471;
Epilogue to Distrest Mother, iii. 316; Gray's
Odes, 426; Johnson's Prologue to Comus,
speaks, i. 160 n. 6; J. writes him a prologue,
243 n. 2; King Lear, adhered to Tate's
version, ii. 249 n. 5; Mallet, fooled by, iii.
405; Odes, his bad, 184 n. 2; Otway's
Friendship in Fashion, revives, i. 243 n. 2;
Philips and Addison, anecdote of, iii. 314 n.
5; Tancred' in Thomson's play, 293 n. 2;
Walmsley's table, Johnson's companion at,
ii. 21.

GARRICK, Mrs., iii. 437 n. 2.

Dis-

GARTH, Sir Samuel, M.D., Addison, de-
fended by, ii. 61; A. and Granville, friend
of, 62; 'best-natured ingenious wild man,'
62 n. 3; birth, &c., 57; College of Physicians,
fellowship, ib.; C. P., censorship, 60; Con-
greve, praised by, 241 n. 3; criticism, at-
tempted, 62 n. 1; deathbed reply to Addison,
62 n. 7; death and burial, 62;
pensary, account of it, 57, 59; corrected in
every edition, 64; criticisms, 63; example
of great burlesque, i. 323; Garth did not
write his own Dispensary,' ii. 60 n. 3;
Doctor of Physic, 57; Dryden's funeral
oration, i. 391, 487; D., praised by, ii. 58
n. 2; Epilogue to Cato, 62 n. 5; epitaph for
St. Évremond, 62 n. 7; Examiner, criticized
in, 61; generosity, 57, 58 nn.; Godolphin,
poem to, 61; good Christian without know-
ing it, 63; Harveian Oration, 60; Kit-Cat
club, member of, 61; knighted with Marl-
borough's sword, ib.; Leyden, 57 n. 2;
Marlborough, Duchess of, present from, 61
n. 6; no physician knew his art more or
trade less,' 59 n. 3; Ovid's Metamorphoses,
edited, 61; Papist, assertion that he died a,
63 n. 2; personal character, 62; Peterhouse,
Cambridge, 57; Phalaris controversy, 60 n.
2; physician to George I, 61; Pope's 'early
encourager,' 62; P.'s Iliad and Halifax, iii.
126; P.'s Pastoral dedicated to him, ii. 62
n. 4; P., praised by, 62 n. 4, 63; Prior's
Poems, subscribed for, 194 n. 1; quacks,
attacks, 60; Radcliffe, 57 n. 4; 'religion of
wise men,' 63 n. 1; runs 'foot-match,' 62 n.
3; Sheffield, suppresses praise of, 179;
suicide, suspicion of, 62 n. 2; Swift's sarcastic
mention, 63 n. 1; 'To die is landing on some
silent shore,' 63 n. 6, iii. 263 n. 2; weary
of having his shoes pulled off and on,' ii. 62
n. 2; 'well natur'd Garth,' 62 n. 4; Whig,
zealous, 60, 62; Whigs, physician to, 57;
William III, praises, 67 n. 1; quota-
tions, Dispensary, 59 n. 3, 60 n. 2, 63 n. 6,
179, 240 n. 4, 300 n. 8, iii. 263 n. 2; Pro-
logue to Tamerlane, ii. 67 n. 1.

GARTH, William, the poet's father, ii. 57 #. 2.

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GASCOIGNE, George, i. 295.
GASTRELL, Francis, Dr., Bishop of Chester,

ii. 22, 23.

GATAKER, Thomas, Of the Nature and Use
of Lots, i. 215.

GAUDEN, Dr. John, i. 197.
GAULMIN, Gilbert, i. 112 n. I.
GAULTIER, Abbé, ii. 188.

GAY, John, Achilles, ii. 281; Addison's last
illness, summoned in, 116; Apparition, An,
284; apprenticed to silk mercer, 267; Ar-
buthnot, visited by, 272 n. 6; ballad opera,
invented, 282; Barnstaple School, 267;
Beggar's Opera, account of it, 275-8; airs
adapted by him, iii. 228 n. 5; Congreve,
couplet adapted from, ii. 234 n. 2; favourite
songs on fans, &c., 277; first night, 276; long
run, IOI n. 5, 277; moral or immoral ?, 278;
political allusions, 279 nn.; 'Polly,' 277;
reception, 277, 278; birth, &c., 267;
Burlington, befriended by, 272; Captives,
The, 274; Commissioner of the Lottery, 270
22.5; conversation, inattentive in, iii. 201 n.
2; Court, hankers after the, ii. 270 n. 2, 280
n. 5; C., neglected by, 275; death, 281, iii.
154; dedication to Bolingbroke, ii. 270; d.
to Duke of Cumberland, 274; d. to Pope,
268; described by Pope, 282; Dione, 284;
Distrest Wife, 282; eat too much, 281 n. 2;
epitaph by Pope, iii. 268; e. on himself, 268
n. 1; Fables, ii. 274, 280 n. 3, 281, 283, iii.
327; Fan, The, ii. 283; Fenton's advice to
buy annuity, 274; flute, played on, iii. 228
n. 5; Gay's Chair, ii. 267 n. 2; general
favourite, 268; gentleman usher to Princess
Louisa, 274; good-natured and inoffensive,
282 n. 5; Gulliver's Travels, criticizes, iii.
38 n. 5; G. T., his 'echo' of, ii. 284;
Hanover, House of, offended, 270; Harcourt
Lord Keeper, praises, iii. 258 n. 5; H., visits,
ii. 273; hare with many friends,' 268 n. 6,
275 n. 1; hopeful, but easily depressed, 272;
Howard, Mrs., pays court to, 275, iii. 39
n. 3; 'Johnny Gay,' ii. 282 n. 5; Journey to
Exeter, 272 n. 6; Key to the What d'ye call
it, attacked in, 271; laughed at world, iii.
61 n. 4; loved rather than respected, ii. 268;
'natural man without design,' 282; Otway's
'tenderness,' i. 248 n. 1; Parnell's literary
gains, ii. 268 n. 6; Pastorals, praised by
Goldsmith, Southey and Wordsworth, 269 n.
3; see GAY, Shepherd's Week; - payments
received, Beggar's Opera, 273 n. 4, 275 n. 5,
277 n. 3, 280; Fables, 275 n. 5; Polly, 280;
Pope's Shakespeare, 268 n. 5; subscription
edition of his poems, 273; What d'ye call it,
271 n. 2; Polly, performance prohibited,
279; published by subscription, 280 n. 2;
Pope, friendship with, 268, 274, iii. 154; P.'s
Memoirs of a Parish Clerk, hand in, 144 n.
4; P.'s Odyssey, 139 n. 6; P.'s Shakespeare,
assists in, ii. 268 n. 5; see POPE; Mr. Pope's
Welcome from Greece, iii. 112 n. 2; posthu-

493

mous works, ii. 281; poultice eaten for
hunger, 272 n. 6; Present State of Wit,
ascribed to him, 29 n. 4, 125 n. 4, 152;
Prince and Princess of Wales present at his
What d'ye call it, 271; Princess of Wales,
verses on her arrival, 270; P. W., reads
Captives to, 274; property at death, 282;
Pulteney takes him to Aix, 272; Queensberry,
Duke and Duchess of, befriended by, 280;
Queen Caroline, message to, 275; Rehearsal
at Gotham, 282; Rural Sports, 268, 283;
secretary to Duchess of Monmouth, 268;
secretary to Hanover embassy, 270; Shep-
herd's Week, 269, 270; sisters' benefit, 281;
South Sea losses, 274; sportsman, success as
a, 268 n. 3; standing army, attacks, 361 n.
3; Steele and Addison, 122 n. 5; S. 'puffs'
Pastorals, 269 n. 4; subscription edition of
poems, 273; subscriptions for Polly, 279;
Swift and Pope's Miscellanies, shares in, iii.
38 n. 2; Swift's grief at his death, ii. 281;
S.'s lines on him, 275 n. 1; see SWIFT;
'terror of ministers,' 280 n. 1;
Three

Hours after Marriage, account of it, 271;
Arbuthnot and Pope assist, 271, iii. 274;
driven off stage, ii. 223 n. 1, 272; mummy and
crocodile, 272, iii. 185; Tickell's Iliad,

ii. 307 n. 7; timid temper, 282; Trivia, 283;
'Twas when the seas were roaring, 271 n. 1 ;
Walpole, satirizes, 279 n. 1,281 n. 5, 282 n. 3;
want of economy, 280; Westminster Abbey,
281, iii. 268; What dye call it, ii. 271, 272;
Wife of Bath, 269; will of his own, without,
268 n. 6; wine, left off, iii. 203 n. 2; Withers,
praises, 266 n. 2; quotations, Beggar's

Opera, ii, 72 n. 4, 234 n. 2, 277 n. 1, 281 n.
1; Epilogue to Three Hours after Marriage,
271 n. 6; Epigrammatical Petition, 270 n.
2; Epistles, Journey to Exeter, 252 n.6; To
a Lady Occasioned by the arrival of the
Princess of Wales, 270 n. 7; To Lintot, 83
n. 10, 174 n. 7, 231 n. 4; To Lowndes, 122
n. 5, 361 n. 3; Fables, Dedication to Duke of
Cumberland, 274 n. 5; Hare and Many
Friends, 268 n. 6; To Laura, 280 n. 3;
Pope's Welcome from Greece, 179, 273 n. 3,
307 n. 7, iii. 92 n. 3, 112 n. 2, 258 n. 5, 265
n. I, 266 n. 2, 274; Prologue to the Shep-
herd's Week, ii. 270 n. 5; P. to Rural Sports,
267 n. 4; Trivia, 284 n. 1; Verses to be
placed under the picture of Sir Richard
Blackmore, 242 n. 1, 249 nn.; Wine, 46

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Gentleman's Magazine, contributions_by
Akenside, iii. 412 n. 1; c. by Broome, 80;
c. by Collins, 334, 339 n. 4; c. by Savage,
ii. 382, 384; Gray's death, iii. 429 n. 3; in-
decent writing, ii. 126 n. 3; Johnson's Essay
on Epitaphs, iii. 254 n. 1 ; J.'s first contribu-
tion, ii. 382 n. 2; Savage, verses on, 388 n.
4, 417 n. I.

GEORGE I, Blackmore, praised by, ii. 241 n.
5; death, iii. 39 n. 1; escape from storm,
371; Garter conferred when Elector of Han-
over, ii. 45; indifferent to possession of the
Crown, 114 n. 2; Peerage Bill, 114; poetry,
paid little attention to, iii. 209; Pope's Iliad,
subscribes for, 118 n. 4.

GEORGE II, Dunciad presented to him, iii.
148, 150; Paradise Lost, 'why not written in
prose?' i. 190 n. 1; parliamentary writ as
Duke of Cambridge, ii. 45; poetry, paid little
attention to, iii. 209; poets as mechanics,
considered, ii. 275 n. 2; verses, 'little Mr.
Pope's trade,' iii. 148 n. 4; Young Han-
over Brave,' ii. 225 n. 2; Young's pension,
iii. 390.

GEORGE, Prince of Denmark, ii. 25, 27.
GEORGE, Dr. William, Head Master of
Eton, iii. 421; Provost of King's College,
Cambridge, i. 150 n. 4.

GERMAIN, Lady Elizabeth, Howard, Mrs.,
and Swift, iii. 39 n. 3; Pope dines with her,
199 n. 2; Young's dedication, 372.

GERMANICUS, iii. 237.

GERY, Rev. William, of Letcombe, iii. 26

N. 2.

GIBBON, Edward, Addison's Dialogues on
Medals, ii. 121 n. 1; A.'s Evidences of the
Christian Religion, 112 n. 2; aspersing adver-
sary's birth and condition, i. 113. 1; authors
and critics, iii. 91 n. 5; author's judgement of
own performance, i. 340 n. 7; Bower, iii. 459;
British name respected on continent, ii. 186
n. 9; Celesia, Madame, iii. 409 nn.; com-
position, method of, 218 n. 5; Crousaz's
Logic, 165 n. 1; 'curiosa felicitas,' 236 n. 1;
Decline and Fall, not completed when pro-
posed, 117 n. 4; Foster, the preacher, ii. 387
n. I; gentility and trade, 267 n. 4; gentleman
writing for amusement, 226 n. 6; Gray's
Government and Education, iii. 424 n. 8;
Greek ignorance of Roman writers, 236 n. 4;
'habits of correct writing produce appearance
of art,'i. 162 n.6; Hughes's Siege of Damascus,
ii. 163 n. 5; Johnson and Pope's Epitaphs,
iii. 272 n. 1; Le Clerc's Bibliothèque Univer-
selle, 308 n. 5; literary temper, ii. 239 n. 3;
Lyttelton's Hist. of Henry II, reviewed, iii.
453 n. 1; Magdalen College, 334 n.9; Mallet's
Bacon, 404 n. 1; M.'s Elvira, 408 n. 3; M.'s
'forgotten poems and plays,' 410 n. 3; M.'s
philosophy, scandalized' by, 410 #. 2; M.'s
William and Margaret, 401 n. 3; Mallet,
Mrs., 409 n. 5; Milton's enumeration of
Syrian and Arabian deities, i. 178 n. 2; Ne-

mesian and Numerian, iii. 316 n. 4; Petran
and Boccaccio's Homer, 317 n.2; poet laureat
i. 481; Pope's Iliad, iii. 113 n. 4, 119 .
275; Prior's Solomon, ii. 207 n. 2; Rome, "
95 n. 8; Rowe's Royal Convert, ii. 68 m. s
R.'s Tamerlane, 78; Saint, title of, iii. 3.
1.7; Salmasius, i. 112 n. 1; Septennial Ac
ii. 114 n. 6; Spence's Polymetis and Esto
on the Odyssey, iii. 142 n. 7; Tasso L
Guarini, 318. 4; Warburton, 167 x 2
West, Gilbert, 332 n. 3.

GIBBONS, Dr. Thomas, Memoirs of Watt
iii. 302, 305; Johnson took to him, 305 #. 3.
GIBBS, James, the architect, ii. 136 #. 4, 195

n. 5.

GIBSON, Edmund, Bishop of London, f. 386
n. 3, 388.

GIBSON, Sir John, lieutenant governor of
Portsmouth, ii. 138 n. 3.

GIFFARD, Lady, Sir William Temple's sister.
iii. 74.

GILBERT, Rev., Lord Tyrconnel's chaplain.
ii. 376 n. I.

GILDON, Charles, Dunciad, attacked in, i
237 n. 3; Laws of Poetry, ib.; name as well
known as Pope's, iii. 147 n. 4; Ozell's Iliad,
76 n. 4; Philips's Splendid Shilling, i. 317;
Pope and Addison, iii. 133; Roscommon's
Essay, i. 237; 'venal quill,' iii. 133 m. 2, 201
n. 4; Wycherley's Life, 133 n. 2.

GILL, Alexander, the elder, High Master of
St. Paul's, i. 86.

GILL, Alexander, the younger, i. 86 m. 7.
GILLINGHAM MINOR, iii. 362.

GILLIVER, Lawton, the bookseller, iii. 148
n. 6.

GLOUCESTER, William, Duke of, son of
Queen Anne, i. 487.

GLOVER, Richard, Duke of Marlborough's
papers, iii. 405; Leonidas, 179 #. 6; Pope
and Prince of Wales, 179 n. 5.
GODOLPHIN, Dr. Henry, Provost of Eton,
ii. 199 n. 2.

GODOLPHIN, Sidney, first Earl of, Addison's
Campaign, ii. 88; Corneille's Pompey, a trans-
lator of, i. 282 n. 1; Rochester, praised by,
303 n. 8.

GOETHE, Samson Agonistes, i. 188 m. 8;
spectacles, disliked, iii. 47 #. 5; Venice Pre-
served, i. 246 n. I.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver, Addison's Epistle to
Halifax, ii. 86 n. 4; Beau Nash, 422 . 1;
Bower and Lauder, iii. 459; Collins, Eclogues,
339 n. 2, 340 n. 1; 'come too late into the
world,' i. 424 n. 7; Congreve's comedies, ii.
228 n. 3; criticism, his, 'seldom safe to contra-
dict,' 52; Dryden's Alexander's Feast, i. 456
n. 4; D.'s versification, 421 n. 2; English
Poets, omission due to bookseller's copyright,
301 . 1; English poets, similitude in lives
of, 209 n. 2; flowered late,' iii. 10 m. a;
Garth's Dispensary, ii. 63 n. z; Gay's Par
torals, 269 n. 3; Gray's compounded epithets,

ii. 437 n. 1 ; G.'s Elegy, 441 n. 2; Hawkins,
Professor William, 359; honours to him like
ruffles to shirtless man, ii. 40; innovators in
poetry, iii. 341 n. 4, 426 n. 5; Italian Opera,
ii. 166; Johnson's tribute to his memory, 49;
Life of Parnell, ib.; L'Allegro and Il Pense-
roso, introductions, i. 165 n. 3; Leasowes,
essay on, iii. 351 n. 2; Moore, Savage, Am-
hurst, ii. 433 n. 4; Otway, i. 246 n. 1, 248 n. 1;
Parnell's poetry, ii. 52, 53, 54 2. 2; Philips,
Ambrose, Poetical Letter from Copenhagen,
iii. 313 n. 1; Philips, John, Splendid Shilling,
i. 317 n. 1; Pope's Epistle to Bathurst, iii. 172
n. 1; P.'s Rape of the Lock, 232 n. 4; P. and
Swift's letters, 61 n. 4; Prior's Alma, ii. 205
n. 3; P.'s borrowings, 207 n. 6; P.'s Hans
Carvell, 201 n. 8; Rowe's Colin's Complaint,
76 n. 7; R.'s tragedies, 76 n. 8; Savage's
Bastard, 377 n. 1; 'sculptures' in books, i.
342 n. 2; Sheffield's Essay on Poetry, ii. 179;
Shenstone's Schoolmistress, iii. 359 n. 1; sub-
scriptions, authors subsisting on, ii. 403 n. 2;
Swift's place in poetry, iii. 65 n. 3; Thomson,
299 n. 2; Tickell's Colin and Lucy, ii. 311
n.4; T.'s Elegy on Addison, 310 n. 6; Young's
Night Thoughts, iii. 396 n. 2; Y.'s Satires,
394 n. 8; Westminster Abbey, cost deterred
burial in, i. 207 n. 1;
quotations, Deserted

Village, 276 n. 3, ii. 306 n. 3, iii. 336 n. 1;
Epitaph on Parnell, ii. 54 n. 2; Traveller,
394 n. 1, 410 n. 2, iii. 234 n. 4.
GOLDWORTHY, ii. 267.
GOMBAULD, ii. 204 n. 12.

GOODE, Mr., a Presbyterian chaplain, i. 262.
GOODMAN, Bishop Godfrey, The Fall of
Man, i. 137 n. 5.

GOODRICH, iii. 1 n. 6.

GOODWIN, Rev. John, i. 127, 128, 130.
Gorboduc, i. 415 n. 5, iii. 255 n. I.
GORDON, Thomas, translator of Tacitus,
i. 372.

GORING, George, Lord, i. 219 n. I.
GOSSON, Stephen, ii. 219 n. 8.
Gothic Ages, i. 283 n. 4.

Government of the Tongue, The, i. 460 n. 2.
GRAFTON, Augustus Henry, third Duke of,
Prime Minister, and Chancellor of Cambridge,
iii. 428.

GRAFTON, Charles, second Duke of, Lord
Chamberlain, Cibber's poet-laureateship, ii.
382 n. 1; Gay's Polly, prohibits, 279 n. 2;
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 51 n. 8; Young's
patron, iii. 372, 378.

GRAFTON, Duchess of, her account book,
ii. 166, 194 n. 2.

GRAHAM, Colonel, ii. 173 n. 7.
GRAND COMPOUNDER, ii. 26.
Grand Cyrus, Le, i. 349 n. 1.

Grand Magazine of Magazines, iii. 443.
GRANGER, James, Butler's pension, i. 207.
GRANVILLE, Bernard, the poet's brother,
ii. 288 n. 1.

GRANVILLE, George, Lord Lansdowne,

Addison's Epilogue, ii. 294 n. 2; Beauty and
Law, 294 n. 6; bequests to him, 290; birth,
&c., 286; Bolingbroke's lines on him, 295
n. 1; British Enchanters, 289, 294 n. 2, 296;
'brother,' a, 291 n. 6, 293 n. 7; Burnet's
History, attacks, 292; Cambridge, 286;
Clarendon's History, attacks, 293; comp-
troller of Queen Anne's household, 291;
continent, retires to, 292; death, 293; Demo-
sthenes, translates, 291; dramas, 289; Dry-
den's character, defends, i. 398 n. 4; D.,
praised by, ii. 290; Echard's History, attacks,
292; education, 286; Essay upon unnatural
Flights in Poetry, 295; extravagance, 292;
Garth, friendship with, 62; Gay, praised by,
293 n.8; George I's accession, loss of offices,
292; Granville the polite,' i. 329, ii. 294;
Grenville, Sir Richard, vindicates, 293; gross-
ness in comedy, 290; Heroic Love, 289, 290;
House of Commons, 291, 292; imprisoned
in Tower, 292; inherits family estate, 291;
James II, verses to, 286; Jew of Venice,
altered from Shakespeare, 289; Shylock's
character made comic, 290; Johnson quotes
him, 295 n. 2; letter to father, 287; marriage,
293 n. 7; Mira,' verses to, 287 n. 5, 289, 295;
Monmouth's rebellion, wished to volunteer
against, 288; Monk, vindicates, 292; mytho-
logical puerilities, 290, 294; 'Ned Softly' in
Tatler, 294 n. 2; Occasional Conformity,
opposes, 292; Once a Lover always a Lover,
see GRANVILLE, She Gallants; peerage, raised
to, 291; Peleus and Thetis, 289, 296; Peter-
borough, Earl of, poem to, 287; Pope, intimacy
with, 290 n. 5, 294 n. 1; P., praised by, 290,
294, 295 n. 1; P.'s Windsor Forest dedicated
to him, 292, iii. 105; privy counsellor, ii. 291;
profane adulation, 286; Progress of Beauty,
295; Prologues and Epilogues, 295; property
at death, 291 n. 3; protests against Boling-
broke's attainder, 292; Queen Anne, high in
favour of, 291; Queen Caroline, presents
works to, 293; Queen Mary of Modena, cele-
brates, 286, 287; 'regulated loyalty,' 287;
Revolution, opposed to the, 288; Secretary-at-
War in Harley ministry, 291; She Gallants,
289, 290; sound for Queen, Church, and
Sacheverell, 291 n. 4; steady to his party,
294; Swift, offends, 291 n. 6; treasurer of
Queen Anne's household, 292; Waller, com-
mended by, 286; W., imitator of, i. 287, ii.
294; Works, published edition of his, 293;
younger son of a younger brother, 289;

quotations, Drinking Song to Sleep, 295
n. 2; Heroic Love, 290; Progress of Beauty,
295 n. 4; To the Earl of Peterborough, 294
n. 5; Written on a Window in the Tower,
292 n. 3.

GRANVILLE, Sir Bevil, the poet's brother,
ii. 291.

GRANVILLE, see GRENVILLE.

GRAVES, Richard, author of The Spiritual
Quixote, iii. 359; Pembroke College, Oxford,

'singing bird' of, ib.; Recollections of Shen-
stone, 351 n. 5, 353 nn., 354 n. 3, 358 n. I.
GRAY, Mrs. Dorothy, the poet's mother, iii.
421 n. 5, 423 n. 3, 425.

GRAY, John, F.R.S., iii. 286.

GRAY, Mr. Philip, the poet's father, iii. 421,
422.

GRAY, Thomas, Addison's classical quota-
tions, ii. 87 n. 1; affectation in delicacy, iii.
430, 432 n. 2; Agrippina, 423; Akenside's
Odes, 420 n. 2; A.'s Pleasures of the Imagina-
tion, 416 n. 4; alliterations, 439; architecture,
knowledge of, 430 n. 2; Bachelor of Civil
Law, 422;
Bard, published with Pro-
gress of Poesie, 426; Johnson's criticism,
438-41; abrupt beginning, 439; compared
with Horace, Odes (i. 15), 438; retributive
justice, 438 n. 9; Beattie, friendship

with, 428; birth, &c., 421; blank verse, dis-
liked, 416 n. 4; Bonstetten's remarks, 431
nn.; borrowings, his, 440 n. 9; Boswell
sat up all night reading him, 429 n.4; botany,
studied, 430 n. 1; British Museum, 426;
Burnet, ii. 292 n. 7; 'buxom health,' iii. 435;
Cambridge, took no degree, 421; C., dis-
liked, 421, 423; C. kindly mentioned, 428
n. 2; Carlyle on his letters, 431 n. 7; C. on
his poetry, 440 n. 9; charity, 433; Cibber's
comedies, 184 n. 2; Coleridge's criticism,
440 n. 9; Collins and Warton, 335 n. 6;
Colman's Oblivion and Obscurity, ridiculed
in, 427; Common Law, intended to 'profess,'
421, 422; company, worst in the world,' 430
n. 3; composition, method of, 433; com-
pounded epithets, 437; conversation, 430
n. 3; Cornhill house, 421 n. 3; Cowley's
Odes, i. 35 n. 2; Cowper, praised by, iii.
439 n. 4; critics, 91 n. 5; 'cumbrous splen-
dour,' 437; curiosity, 427; death, 429; De
Principiis Cogitandi, 423; described by
Temple, 429-31; 'divine truisms,' 445;
doctor's degree offered him at Aberdeen, 428;
Dodsley's Collection, criticizes, 420 n. 2; D.'s
C., poems published in, 423 n. 9, 424 n. 7;
'double, double, toil and trouble,' 440;
Dryden, admiration for, i. 418 n. 5, 455
n. 11, 469 n. 1o, iii. 226 n. 7, 435 n. 5;
D.'s ' 'car,' i. 465 n. 4, iii. 438; dull fellow,'
a, 444; Dyer, 345 n. 4; Education and
Government, 424; Elegy, account of
publication, 425, 442; compared with Par-
nell's Night Piece on Death, ii. 53; Gold-
smith, criticized by, iii. 441 n. 2; G., mended
by, 250 n. 3; Johnson, cited by, 444; J.
finds two good stanzas, ib.; J., parodied by,
ib.; J., praised by, 441; FitzGerald, Landor,
and Tennyson praise it, 445;' nurse Dods-
ley's pinches,' 443; only poem admired by
age, 436 n. 3; popularity due to subject,
445; suggested motto, ib.; title, 442; Wolfe
repeats it, 441 n. 2; Wordsworth on unintelli-
gibility of its language, 441 n. 2; - epitaph
on his mother, 425 n. 5; Eton, 421;'fame

conferred by few real judges,' only valued, 430
n. 5; father's death, 422; 'finding one's self
business is the great art of life,' 431 n. 3; first
attempt at English verse, 92 n. 5; French
atheism, 432 n. 3; F., letters in, 442; genius
early ripe, 424 n. 2; 'gentleman accompli,'
431 n. 7; gout, 429; happy moments for
writing, 433; Hazlitt's criticisms, 440 n. 9,
441 n. 2; health and constitution, 427, 428;
history, love of, 430; 'honesta res est laeta
paupertas,' 433 n. 1; honied spring,' 434;
humour, his, 431 n. 7; 'independent gentle-
man who read for amusement,' 431; irresolu-
tion and procrastination, 428; Italian opera,
ii. 166; Johnson describes his own character
in Gray's, iii. 428 n. 4; J.'s London and
Drury Lane Prologue, 444; J.'s parody on
Gray's style, 444 n. 1; journeys to Scotland and
to Westmorland and Cumberland, 427, 428;
'language of poetry,' i. 420 n. 1, iii. 435 m. 4;
Latin poems,424; learning, his, 429; 1. draws
out fools from obscurity,' 430 n. 5; Lee's
'Bedlam tragedy,' i. 357 n. 5; letters, coarse-
ness, not free from, iii. 430 n. 4; 1. describ-
ing his journeys, 427, 428; 1., Johnson's esti-
mate of him from, 431; 1. praised by Cowper,
Carlyle, and Walpole, 431 n. 7; liberal
spirit, shows, 432 n. 3; Linnaeus, inter-
leaved, 430 n. 1; lived to himself, 354 n. 3;
London lodging, 426; Long Story, 425;
lottery tickets, buys, 433 n. 1; Lyttelton,
456 n. 7, 458; many twinkling,' 437;
Mason, friendship with, 424; M.'s Memoirs
of him, 442; melancholy, 430 n. 3, 431 n. 2;
metaphors, 437; metaphysical poets, i. 68;
Milton's blindness, iii. 438; M.'s Paradise
Lost, i. 187 n. 4; M.'s Poems, &c., 1673, his
copy of, 196; money, not eager of, iii. 433;
mother's death, 425; mythological puerilities,
439; Naturalist's Calendar,' 427 n. 5;
observation and acquisition, ceaseless, 431
n.7; Ode to Adversity, 423, 435; Ode on the
death of a favourite Cat, 424, 434;. Ode
on a distant prospect of Eton College, dates
of composition and publication, 423; John-
son's criticism, 434; FitzGerald, praised
by, 434 n. 6; little notice taken of it, 423
n. 9; Ode for Music, 425 n. 3, 428
n. 3, 440 n. 9; Ode to Spring, dates of
composition and publication, 423 n.9; John-
son's criticism, 434; Green's Grotto, resem-
blance to, 435 n. I;
Odes by Mr. Gray,
426 n. 1; see GRAY, Progress of Poesy and
Bard; Parnell, ii. 54 n. 5; 'paths of glory,'
&c., iii. 445; payment received for Progress
of Poesy and Bard, 426 n. 1; would not
accept money for reprint, 433 n. 1; Pembroke-
Hall, Cambridge, 425; personal appearance,
ii. 73 n. 4, iii. 431 n. 5; Peterhouse, Cam-
bridge, pensioner at, 421; practical joke
played on him, 425; Pindar and Lysias,
reads, 424 n. 4; Poems with Bentley's designs,
425, 443; poet-laureateship, refused, ii. 381

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