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BODLEIAN

Q2MAY 1952

LIBRARY

WILLIAM FOWLE MIDDLETON, ESQ.

SHRUBLAND PARK, SUFFOLK.

SIR,

Impelled by feelings of the sincerest regard for your great and continued Support since my commencement in Business, I have been anxious to testify my gratitude in a manner not unworthy your acceptance:—and I indulge a hope, that, in dedicating to you the present Edition of the Writings of the illustrious GRAY, my desire may in some measure be accomplished. What he was as a Poet and a Man has justly entitled him to a laurel lasting as Time itself; and, Sir, let it not be considered an unmerited encomium to remark, that the same benevolent virtues, which so eminently adorned and distinguished him, now shine with corresponding lustre and energy in yourself.

That Providence may long preserve you to your Family (to every branch of which I am bound by the strongest sense obligation and respect) is the sincere and constant wish of,

SIR,

Your ever grateful humble Servant,

of

St. John's Square,

Jan. 1, 1820.

THE PRINTER.

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LETTER

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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
Walpole

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

17. To Mr. WEST. On his own leaving the University

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18. From Mr. WEST. Sends him a Latin Elegy in answer to Mr Gray's Sapphic Ode

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'Connecting narrative. Mr. Gray goes abroad with Mr. Walpole.
Corresponds, during his tour, with his parents and Mr. West

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1. To his MOTHER. His voyage from Dover. Description of Calais. Abbeville. Amiens. Face of the country, and dress of the people 45 2. To Mr. WEST. Monuments of the Kings of France at St. Denis, &c. French opera and music. Actors, &c.

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3. To Mr. WEST. Palace of Versailles. Its gardens and water-works. Installation of the Knights du S. Esprit

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4. To his MOTHER. Rheims. Its cathedral. Disposition and amusements of its inhabitants

5. To his FATHER. Face of the country between Rheims and Dijon. Description of the latter. Monastery of the Carthusians and Cistertians

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6. To Mr. WEST. Lyons. Beauty of its environs. Roman antiquities 7. From Mr. WEST. His wishes to accompany his friend. His retired Address to his Lyre, in Latin Sapphics, on the Gray's return

life in London.
prospect of Mr.

8. To his MOTHER. Lyons. Excursion to the Grande Chartreuse. Solemn and romantic approach to it. His reception there, and commendation of the monastery

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9. To his FATHER. Geneva. Advantage of a free government exhibited in the very look of the people. Beauty of the lake, and plenty of its fish

10. To his MOTHER.

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Journey over the Alps to Turin. Singular accident
Method of travelling over mount Cenis

in passing them.
11. To Mr. WEST. 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

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