Pickman Beynest.

SECT. I.

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

CONTENTS.

LETTER

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

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

5. From Mr. WEST. Answer to the former, advises his correspondent not to

give up poetry when he applies himself to the law

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

7. From Mr. WEST. A poetical epistle addressed to his Cambridge friends,

taken in part from Tibullus and a prose letter of Mr. Pope

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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

10. To Mr. WALPOLE. Supposed manner in which Mr. Walpole spends his

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time in the country

Walpole

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

Short narrative, concluding the Section

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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

15. From Mr. WEST. Thanks for his Ode, &c. His idea of Sir Robert

SECT. II.

Connecting narrative. Mr. Gray goes abroad with Mr. Walpole. Cor-

responds, during his tour, with his parents and Mr. West

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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14. To his MOTHER. The Appennines. Florence and its Gallery

15. To Mr. WEST. Journey from Genoa to Florence. Elegiac verses occa-

sioned by the sight of the plains where the battle of Trebia was fought

16. From Mr. WEST. Latin Elegy, expressing his wishes to see Italy and

Greece

17. To his MOTHER. Death of the Pope. Intended departure for Rome.

First and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring

18. To his MOTHER. Cathedral of Sienna. Viterbo.

Distant sight of Rome.

The Tiber. Entrance into the city. St. Peter's. Introduction of the
Cardinal d'Auvergne into the Conclave

19. To his MOTHER. Illumination of St. Peter's on Good Friday, &c.

20. To Mr. WEST. Comic account of the palace of the Duke of Modena at

Tivoli. The Anio. Its cascade. Situation of the town. Villas of Horace

and Mecænas, and other remains of antiquity. Modern aqueducts. A

grand Roman ball

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21. To Mr. WEST. An Alcaic Ode. Ludicrous allusion to ancient Roman

customs. Albano and its lake, Castle-Gondolfo. Prospect from the palace;

an observation of Mr. Walpole's on the views in that part of Italy. Latin

inscriptions, ancient and modern

22. To his MOTHER. Road to Naples. Beautiful situation of that city. Its

bay. Of Baiæ, and several other antiquities. Some account of the first

discovery of an ancient town, now known to be Herculaneum

23. To his FATHER. Departure from Rome and return to Florence. No like-

lihood of the Conclave's rising. Some of the cardinals dead. Descrip-

tion of the Pretender, his sons, and court. Procession at Naples. Sight

of the King and Queen. Mildness of the air at Florence

24. From Mr. WEST. On his quitting the Temple, and reason for it

25. To Mr. WEST. Answer to the foregoing letter. Some account of Naples

and its environs, and of Mr. Walpole's return to Florence

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