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1860. Jun
pur 13.
Pickman Begnest.

CONTENTS.

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

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1. From Mr. WEST. Complains of his friend's silence

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2. To Mr. WEST. Answer to the former. A translation of some lines from
Statius
3. From Mr. WEST. Approbation of the version. Ridicule on the Cam-
bridge Collection of Verses on the marriage of the Prince of Wales

Preface of the Editor to the subsequent letter

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4. To Mr. WEST. On the little encouragement which he finds given to clas-
sical learning at Cambridge. His aversion to metaphysical and mathe-
matical studies

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6. To Mr. WALPOLE. Excuse for not writing to him, &c.

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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
9. To Mr. WALPOLE. How he spends his own time in the country. Meets
with Mr. Southern, the dramatic poet

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11. From Mr. WEST. Sends him a translation into Latin of a Greek epigram 30

12. To Mr. WEST. A Latin epistle in answer to the foregoing

13. From Mr. WEST, on leaving the University, and removing to the Temple
14. To Mr. WEST. A Sapphic Ode, occasioned by the preceding letter, with
a Latin postscript, concluding with an Alcaic fragment

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16. To Mr. WALPOLE. Congratulates him on his new place. Whimsical de-
scription of the quadrangle of Peter-house

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17. To Mr. WEST. On his own leaving the University
18. From Mr. WEST. Sends him a Latin Elegy in answer to Mr. Gray's Sap-
phic Ode

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1. To his MOTHER. His voyage from Dover. Description of Calais. Abbe-
ville. Amiens. Face of the country, and dress of the people
2. To Mr. WEST. Monuments of the Kings of France at St. Denis, &c.
French opera and music. Actors, &c.

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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

12. To Mr. WEST. Genoa. Music. The Doge. Churches and the Palazzo

Doria

13. To his MOTHER. Paintings at Modena. Bologna. Beauty and richness

of Lombardy

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