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.
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,
FRANKLIN, Richard, the bookseller, iii. 407. FREDERIC THE GREAT, i. 177 n. 4. Freethinker, The, iii. 322.
FREIND, John, editor of Demosthenes, ii.
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. a; Otway's Friendship in Fashion, revives, i. 243 n. 2; Philips and Addison, anecdote of, iii. 314 . 5; Tancred' in Thomson's play, 293 n. 2; Walmsley's table, Johnson's companion at, ii. 21.
GARRICK, Mrs., iii. 437 n. 2.
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 Ħalifax, iií. 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. I; 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 n. 2.
GATAKER, Thomas, Of the Nature and Use of Lots, i. 215.
GAUDEN, Dr. John, i. 197. GAULMIN, Gilbert, i. 112 2. 1. 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 . 2; favourite songs on fans, &c., 277; first night, 276; long run, 101 n. 5, 277; moral or immoral?, 278; political allusions, 279 nn.; 'Polly,' 277; reception, 277, 278; birth, &c., 267; Barlington, befriended by, 272; Captives, The, 274; Commissioner of the Lottery, 270 12.5; conversation, inattentive in, iii. 2017. 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 2. I; 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 ”. 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-
mous works, ii. 281; poultice eaten for hunger, 272 n. 6; Present State of Wit, ascribed to him, 29 n. 4, 125 m. 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 22. 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
GAY, John, Esq., of Frithelstock, ii. 267
GAY, William, the poet's father, ii. 267 n. 2. GAZETTE, ii. 270 n. 7.
GAZETTEER, THE, ii. 30 n. 5, 187 n. I. GENERAL FUND, ii. 44. GENEVA, i. 97.
GENIUS, definitions, i. 2 n. 5; qualities con- stituting it, iii. 247.
Gentleman's Journal, ii. 214 n. 7.
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
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 n. 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. 434 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 n. 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; Petrarch and Boccaccio's Homer, 317 n.2; poet laureate, i. 481; Pope's Iliad, iii. 113 n. 4, 119 n. 2, 275; Prior's Solomon, ii. 207 n. 2; Rome, i. 95 n. 8; Rowe's Royal Convert, ii. 68 n. 4; R.'s Tamerlane, 78; Saint, title of, iii. 329 n. 7; Salmasius, i. 112 n. 1; Septennial Act, ii. 114 n. 6; Spence's Polymetis and Essay on the Odyssey, iii. 142 n. 7; Tasso and Guarini, 318 n. 4; Warburton, 167 n. 2; West, Gilbert, 332 n. 3.
GIBBONS, Dr. Thomas, Memoirs of Watts, iii. 302, 305; Johnson took to him, 305 n. 3. GIBBS, James, the architect, ii. 136 n. 4, 195 n. 5.
GIBSON, Edmund, Bishop of London, ii. 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 n. 2, 204 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 n. 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 n. 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 n. 8; spectacles, disliked, iii. 47 n. 5; Venice Pre- served, i. 246 n. I.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver, Addison's Epistle to Halifax, ii. 86 n. 4; Beau Nash, 422 ". I; 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 . I; English poets, similitude in lives of, 209 n. 2; 'flowered late,' iii. 10 n. 2; Garth's Dispensary, ii. 63 n. 5; Gay's Pas- torals, 269 n. 3; Gray's compounded epithets,
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE - GRAVES
iii. 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 . 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; 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. a; 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. I.
Grand Magazine of Magazines, iii. 443.
GRANGER, James, Butler's pension, i. 207. GRANVILLE, Bernard, the poet's brother, ii. 288 n. I.
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,
GRAY, Thomas, Addison's classical quota- tions, ii. 87 n. I; 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 12. 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 1.5; 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. I; '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 n. 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,' 437 n. 5; observation and acquisition, ceaseless, 431 n.7; Ode to Adversity, 423, 435; Ode on the death of a favourite Cat, 424, 434;. 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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