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who finding it to be the gout in that part, thought his case dange rous, and called in Dr. Plumptree, the physical professor: they prescribed to him the usual cordials given in that distemper, but without any good effect; for on the 29th he was seized with a strong convulsion fit, which, on the 30th, returned with increased violence, and on the next evening he expired. He was sensible at times almost to the last, and from the first aware of his extreme danger; but expressed no visible concern at the thoughts of his approaching dissolution.

This account I draw up from the letters which Dr. Brown, then on the spot, wrote to me during his short illness; and as I felt strongly at the time what Tacitus has so well expressed on a similar occasion, I may. with propriety, use his words: "Mihi, præter acerbitatem amici erepti, auget mæstitiam, quod assidere valetudini, fovere deficientem, satiari vultu, complexu, non contigit." I was then on the eastern side of Yorkshire, at a distance from the direct post, and therefore did not receive the melancholy intelligence soon enough to be able to reach Cambridge before his corpse had been carried to the place he had, by will, appointed for its interment. To see the last rights duly performed, therefore, fell to the lot of Dr Brown; I had only to join him, on his return from the funeral, in executing the other trusts which his friendship had authorized us jointly to perform.

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No.

Page

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LXXXVII. To Dr. Wharton.-On Strawberry-Hill.-Occa-
sional remarks on Gothic architecture

LXXXVIII. To Dr. Wharton.-Objection to publishing his
Ode on the progress of Poetry singly.-Hint
of his having other lyrical ideas by him. un-
finished

LXXXIX.

To Mr. Stonhewer.-Of Monsigner Baiardi's
book concerning Herculaneum.-A poem of
Voltaire-Encloses a part of his ode entitled
the Bard

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XC. To Dr. Wharton.--On his removing from Pe-
ter-House to Pembroke-Hall.-His notion of
a London hospital.-Of Suily's Memoirs.--
Mason's four odes

XCI. To Dr. Wharton.-Of his own indolence.-Me-
moirs of M. de la Porte and of Madame Staal.
-Intention of coming to town

XCII. To Mr Mason.-Of his Reviewers.-Offers to
send him Druidical anecdotes for his project-
ed drama of Caractacus

XCIII. To Mr. Mason.-On hearing Parry play on the
Welsh harp, and finishing his ode after it.-
Account of the old ballad on which the tra-
gedy of Douglas was founded

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XCIV. To Mr. Walpole.-Expresses his aversion to
notes accompanying his Bard

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7

14

17

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XCV. To Mr Walpole.-Inquiry into the genuine-
ness of an Erse poem called "Hardicnute" 21
XCVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Criticism of Rousseau's
"Nouvelle Heloise"

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XCVII. To Mr. Hurd.-On the ill reception his two Pin-
daric odes met with on their publication
XCVIII. To Mr. Mason -His opinion of the dramatic
part of Caractacus

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To Mr. Mason.-Dissuading him from retire-
ment -Advice concerning Caractacus.--Criti-
cisms on his Elegy written in the garden of a
friend-Refusal of the office of Poet Laureat 38
C. To Dr Wharton.-Account of his present em-
ployment, in making out a list of places in
England worth seeing

CI. To Dr Wharton-On the fore-mentioned list.
-Tragedy of Agis.--Various authors in the
last volumes of Dodsley's Miscellany.--Dr.
Swift's four last years of queen Anne

CII. To Mr. Stonhewer-On infidel writers and lord
Shaftesbury

Strictures on an impious position of lord Bo-
lingbroke

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CIII. To Dr. Wharton.-On the death of his son, and
an excuse for not writing an epitaph

CIV.

To Mr. Palgrave -Desiring him to communi-
eate the remarks he should make in his tour
through the north of England

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CV. To Mr. Mason-Some remarks on a second
manuscript copy of Caractaeus

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CVI. To Mr. Palgrave-Description of Mr. Gray's
present situation in town, and of his reading
in the British Museam

CVII. To Dr. Wharton-On employment.-Garden-
ing.-Character of Froissard -King of Prus-
sia's poems-Tristram Shandy

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39

41

44

49

52

53

57

59

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CVIII. To Mr. Stonhewer.-On the latter volumes of
M. d'Alembert and the Erse fragments
CIX. To Dr. Clarke-His amusements with a party
on the banks of the Thames.-Death of a
Cambridge doctor.-Move of the Erse frag

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CX. To Mr. Mason.-On two parodies of Mr. Gray's
and Mr. Mason's odes.-Extract of a letter
from Mr. David Hume, concerning the au-
thenticity of the Erse poetry

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CXI. To Dr. Wharton.-On his employments in the
country.-Nouvelle Heloise -Fingal.-Cha-
racter of Mr. Stillingfleet

CXII. To Mr. Ma on. More concerning the Nouvelle
Heloise.Of Signor Elisi, and other opera
singers

CXII. To Mr. Mason --On his expectation of being
made a residentiary of York.-Recovery of

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from a dangerous illness.-Reason
for writing the Epitaph on sir William Wil-

liams

CXIV. To Mr. Walpole.-Remarks on Mr. Walpole's
Anecdotes of Painting

78

80

CXV. To Dr. Wharton.-Description of Hardwick -
Professor Turner's Death.-And of the peace 82
To Mr. Mason-On count Algarotti's approba-
tion of his and Mr. Mason's poetry.-Gothic
architecture.-Plagiary in Helvetius, from

CXVI.

Elfrida

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CXVII. To Mr. Brown.-Sending him a message to
write to a gentleman abroad relating to count
Algarotti, and recommending the Erse poems 93
CXVIII. Count Algarotti to Mr. Gray.-Complimentary,
and sending him some dissertations of his

own

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CXIX. To Dr. Wharton-On Rousseau's Emile
CXX. To Mr. How.-On receiving three of Count
Algarotti's Treatises, and hinting an error
which that author had fallen into, with re-
gard to the English taste of gardening

CXXI. To Mr. Walpole.-Ludicrous remarks on the
Castle of Otranto, &c.

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CXXII. To Mr. Palgrave.-What he particularly advises
him to see when abroad.

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CXXIII. To Mr. Beattie-Thanks for a letter received
from him, and an invitation from lord Strath-
more to Glames

CXXIV. To Dr. Wharton.-Description of the old castle
of Glames, and part of the Highlands

CXXV. To Mr. Beattie. Apology for not accepting
the degree of Doctor, offered him by the Uni-
versity of Aberdeen

CXXVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Humorous recommendation
of warm clothing.-French nastiness and
atheism censured.-Description of an old pic-

ture

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CXXVII. To Dr. Wharton.-Buffon's Natural History.-
Memoirs of Petrarch.-Mr. Walpole at Paris.
-Description of a fine lady

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CXXVIII. To Dr. Wharton-Tour into Kent.-New Bath
Guide.-Another volume of Buffon

130

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GXXIX. To Mr. Nicholls.-On the affection due to
a mother.-Description of that part of Kent
from whence the letter was written

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CXXX.
CXXXI

Page

To Mr. Mason.-On the death of his wife
To Mr. Beattie.-Thanks for a manuscript poem.
-Mr. Adam Ferguson's Essay on Civil Society.
-A compliment to lord Gray

138

- 139

CXXXII. 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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CXXXIII. To Mr. How.-After perusing the whole of
Count Algarotti's works in the Leghorn edi-
tion, and his sentiments concerning them

- 145

CXXXIV. To Mr. Beattie.-More concerning the Glasgow
edition of his poems

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CXXXV. To Mr Walpole.-Criticism on Mr. Walpole's
Historic Doubts, &c.

CXXXVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Excuses himself for not
showing his poems to Mr. Walpole previous
to their publication.-Speed and Leslie.-
Boswell's History of Corsica

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CXXXVII. To Mr. Walpole.-Extracts from sir W. Corn-
wallis's Essays.-Remarks on Stowe, Speed,
Guthrie, &c.

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CXXXVIII. To the duke of Grafton-Thanking him for his
professorship

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CXXXIX. To Mr. Nicholls.-Account of Mr. Brocket's
death, and of his being made his successor in
the professorship

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CXL To Mr. Beattie.-On the same subject
CXLI. To Mr. Nicholls-On the death of his uncle,
governor Floyer, and advising him to take or-
ders

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CXLII. To Mr. Nicholls.--Congratulating him upon his
situation, and mentioning his own ode on the
Installation of the new Chancellor

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CXLIII. To Mr. Beattie.-His reason for writing that
ode

CXLIV. To Dr. Wharton-A Journal of his tour through
Westmoreland, Cumberland, and a part of
Yorkshire

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CXLV. To Dr. Wharton-Description of Kirkstall-
Abbey, and some other places in Yorkshire - 216
CXLVI. To Mr. Nicholls.-Of Nettely-Abbey and South-
ampton

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CXLVII. To Mr. Beattie.-On the first part of his Min-
strel, and his Essay on the Immutability of
Truth.-Stricture on Mr. D. Hume

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