INDEX. No. I. II. From Mr. West.-Complains of his friend's si lence To Mr. West.-Answer to the former.-A trans- Page 5 7 III. From Mr. West.-Approbation of the version. -Ridicule on the Cambridge Collection of Verses on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales IV. To Mr. West.-On the little encouragement which he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge.--His aversion to metaphysical and mathematical studies V. From Mr. West.-Answer to the former, advises his correspondent not to give up poetry when he applies himself to the law VI. To Mr. Walpole.-Excuse for not writing to VII. VIII. To Mr. West.-Thanks him for his poetical IX. To Mr. Walpole.-How he spends his own time in the country-Meets with Mr. Southern, the dramatic poet X. 9 225 To Mr. Walpole.-Supposed manner in which Mr. Walpole spends his time in the country 26 XI. From Mr. West.-Sends him a translation into Latin of a Greek epigram XII. To Mr. West.-A Latin epistle in answer to the foregoing XIII. From Mr. West.-On leaving the University, and removing to the Temple XIV. To Mr. West.-A Sapphic Ode, occasioned by the preceding letter, with a Latin postscript, concluding with an Alcaic fragment 28 30 32 - 33 No. XV. From Mr. West.-Thanks for his Ode, &c.-His XVI. Page 36 To Mr. Walpole-Congratulates him on his XVII. To Mr. West-On his own leaving the Univer- XVIII 37 39 40 From Mr. West.-Sends him a Latin Elegy in To his Mother.-His voyage from Dover.-De- XXI. To Mr. West.-Palace of Versailles.-Its gar- 46 51 XXII. To his Mother-Rheims.-Its Cathedral.-Disposition and amusements of its inhabitants 55 XXIII. To his Father.-Face of the country between Rheims and Don-Description of the latter. -Monastery of the Carthusians and Cistercians XXIV. To Mr. West -Lyons.--Beauty of its environs. XXV. · 59 From Mr. West-His wishes to accompany XXVI. To his Mother-Lyons-Excursion to the XXVII. 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 XXVIII. To his Mother-Journey over the Alps to Turin. XXIX. To Mr. West-Turin.-Its Carnival-More of No. XXX. To Mr. West.-Genoa.-Music.-The Doge.- Page 80 XXXI. To his Mother.-Paintings at Modena.-Bolog- -83 XXXII. To his Mother.-The Apennines.--Florence and its gallery XXXIII. To Mr. West.--Journey from Genoa to Florence.-Elegiac verses occasioned by the sight of the plains where the battle of Trebia was fought XXXIV. From Mr. West.-Latin Elegy, expressing his wishes to see Italy and Greece XXXV. To his Mother.-Death of the pope.-Intended departure for Rome. First and pleasing appearance of an Italian spring XXXVI. 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 XXXVII. To his Mother.-Illumination of St. Peter's on XXXVIII. To Mr. West.-Comic account of the palace of XL. 86 90 91 92 94 99 - 101 - 106 XXXIX. To Mr. West.-An Alcaic ode.-Ludicrous allusion to ancient customs-Albano and its Jake.-Castel Gondolfo-Prospect from the palace; an observation of Mr. Walpole's on the views in that part of Italy.-Latin inscriptions, ancient and modern To his Mother-Road to Naples.-Beautiful situation of that city.-Its bay-Of Baix, and several other antiquities.--Some ac count of the first discovery of an ancient town, not known to be Herculaneum - 112 XLI. To his Father.-Departure from Rome and return to Florence-No likelihood of the conclave's rising.---Some of the cardinals dead.-Description of the Pretender, his sons, and court-Procession at Naples.-Sight of the king and queen -Mildness of the air at Florence XLII. From Mr. West-On his quitting the Temple, XLIII. To Mr. West.-Answer to the foregoing letter. 115 119 No. Page -Some account of Naples and its environs, rence XLIV. To his Mother.-Excursion to Bologna.-Election of a pope; description of his person, with an odd speech which he made to the cardinals in the conclave - 121 - 127 XLV. To Mr. West.-Description in Latin hexameters of the sudden rising of Monte Nuovo near Puzzoli, and of the destrution which attended it XLVI. To his Father.- Uncertainty of the route be shall take in his return to England.-Magnificence of the Italians in their reception of strangers, and parsimony when alone.-The great applause which the new pope meets with. One of his bon mots 130 - 135 XLVII. To his Father.-Total want of amusement at Florence, occasioned by the late emperor's funeral not being public.-A procession to avert the ill effects of a late inundation -Intention of going to Venice -An invasion from the Neapolitans apprehended. The inhabitants of Tuscany dissatisfied with the government 137 XLVIII. To Mr. West.-The time of his departure from Florence determined.-Alteration in his temper and spirits.-Difference between an Italian fair and an English one.-A farewell to Florence and its prospects in Latin hexameters-Imitation, in the same language, of an Italian sonnet XLIX. From Mr. West.-His spirits not as yet im- L. To Mr. West-Earnest hopes for his friend's 140 144 145 LI. From Mr. West.-Criticisms on his friend's tragic style.-Latin hexameters on his own cough 148 LII. To Mr. West.-Thanks for his verses.-Ōn Joseph Andrews.-Defence of old words in tragedy LIII. From Mr. West.-Answer to the former, on the subject of antiquated expressions LIV. To Mr. West.-Has laid aside his tragedy.Difficulty of translating Tacitus - 150 - 155 LV. From Mr. West.-With an English ode on the 158 160 No. LVI. To Mr. West.-Criticises his ode.-Of his own classical studies Page 162 - 164 LVII From Mr West.-Answer to the foregoing LVIII. To Mr West.-Of his own peculiar species of melancholy-Inscription for a wood in Greek hexameters.-Argument and exordium of a Latin heroic epistle from Sophonisba to Massinissa - 165 - 169 LIX. To Dr. Wharton, on taking his degree of Ba- LX. - 171 LXI. To Mr. Walpole.-Ludicrous description of 174 LXII. To Dr. Wharton.-His amusements in town.Reflections on riches,-Character of Aristotle 176 LXIII. To Mr Walpole.-Observations on his tragedy of Agrippina. Admirable picture of true philosophy LXIV. To Mr Walpole.-Ridicule on Cibber's Ob- LXV. To Mr. Walpole -Criticisms on Mr. Spence's - 180 - 183 - 187 LXVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Ludicrous compliment of condolence on the death of his favourite cat, enclosing an ode on that subject - 191 LXVII. To Dr. Wharton.-Loss by fire of a house in Cornhill. On Diodorus Siculus.-M Gresset's Poems.-Thomson's Castle of Indolence. -Ode to a Water Nymph, with a character of its author 192 LXVIII. To Dr. Wharton.-More on M. Gresset.-Ac. .count of his own projected poem on the alliance between government and education 195 LXIX. To Dr. Wharton.-Character of M. de Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Loix - 197 LXX. To Dr. Wharton.-Account of books continued. - 198 LXXI. To Dr. Wharton.-Ludicrous account of the Duke of Newcastle's installation at Cam. bridge. On the ode then performed, and more concerning the author of it - 201 |