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Prefatory narrative. Mr. Gray's father dies, and the year after he returns
to Cambridge, and takes a degree in civil law; during that interval he cor-
responds with Mr. West

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1. From Mr. WEST. His spirits not as yet improved by country air. Has
begun to read Tacitus, but does not relish him
2. To Mr. WEST. Earnest hopes for his friend's better health, as the warm
weather comes on. Defence of Tacitus, and his character. Of the new
Dunciad. Sends him a speech from the first scene of Agrippina
The plan, dramatis personæ, and all the speeches which Mr. Gray wrote of
that tragedy, inserted .

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3. From Mr. WEST. Criticism on his friend's tragic style. Latin hexa-
meters on his own cough

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5. From Mr. WEST. Answer to the former, on the subject of antiquated ex-
pressions

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Of his own peculiar species of melancholy. Inscription

for a wood in Greek hexameters. Argument and exordium of a Latin
heroic epistie, from Sophonisba to Massinissa

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8. To Dr. WHARTON. More on M. Gresset. Account of his own projected
poem on the alliance between government and education
Fragment of that poem, with a commentary, notes, and detached senti-
ments relative to it

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Character of M. de Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Loix 166

Account of books continued. Crebillon's Catilina.

Birch's State Papers. Of his own studies, and a table of Greek chrono-
logy, which he was then forming

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Farther account of those designs, with stanzas which Mr. Gray wrote to
Mr. Bentley on that occasion
Epitaph on Mr. Gray's aunt and mother in the church-yard of Stoke-Pogis 186

18. To Mr. MASON. On the death of his father

19. To Dr. Wharton. On Strawberry-Hill.

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A paper of Mr. Gray inserted, relating to an impious position of Lord
Bolingbroke

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51. To Mr. BEATTIE. Apology for not accepting the degree of Doctor offered
him by the University of Aberdeen

52. To Dr. WHARTON. Buffon's Natural History. Memoirs of Petrarch,

Mr. Walpole at Paris. Description of a fine lady

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53. To Dr. WHARTON. Tour in Kent. New Bath Guide. Another volume
of Buffon

54. To Mr. MASON. On his wife's death

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55. To Mr. BEATTIE. Thanks for a manuscript poem. Mr. Adam Ferguson's
Essay on Civil Society. A compliment to Lord Gray

56. To Mr. BEATTIE. On the projected edition of our Author's Poems in

England and Scotland. Commendation of Mr. Beattie's Ode on Lord

Hay's birth-day

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57. To Mr. BEATTIE. More concerning the Glasgow edition of his Poems
58. To the Duke of GRAFTON. Thanking him for his Professorship

Letter to MARY ANTROBUS, written on the day of his presentation to
George III. upon his appointment to the Professorship. [Not in Mr.
Mason's edition]

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59. To Mr. NICHOLLS. Account of Mr. Brocket's death, and of his being
made his successor in the Professorship

60. To Mr. BEATTIE. On the same subject

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4. To Dr. WHARTON. A journal of his tour through Westmoreland, Cum-、.
berland, and a part of Yorkshire

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7. To Mr. BEATTIE. On the first part of his Minstrel, and his Essay on the
Immutability of Truth. Stricture on Mr. D. Hume

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8. To Mr. How. On receiving three of Count Algarotti's Treatises, and
hinting an error which that author had fallen into, with regard to the
English taste of gardening

The manner in which the Count rectified his mistake

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9. To Mr. How. After perusing the whole of Count Algarotti's works in the
Leghorn edition, and his sentiments concerning them
10. To Mr. NICHOLLS. On the affection due to a mother. Description of
that part of Kent from whence the letter was written
11. To Mr. NICHOLLS. Character of Froissart and other old French histo-
rians. And of Isocrates
12. To Dr. WHARTON. Of his tour, taken the year before, to Monmouth,
&c. Intention of coming to Old Park. And of his ill state of health
Conclusion, with the particulars of Mr. Gray's death. His character by
another hand, and some annotations on it by the Editor

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6. Mr. Lyttleton's Elegy and Mr. Walpole's Epistle from Florence considered
-favourable views of the latter

7. Inquiries concerning a new work of his, containing a history of his own

time

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8. The Hymn to Adversity. Two publications of Dr. Middleton's noticed
9. Promises a new ode

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