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LETTER 19. To his MOTHER.-Illumination of St. Peter's on Good-Friday, &c. LETTER 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 Mæcenas, and other remains of antiquity.-Modern aqueducts.-A grand Roman Ball

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p. 232 LETTER 21. To Mr. WEST.-An Alcaic Ode.-Ludicrous allusion to ancient Roman customs.-Albano and its lake.-CastleGondolfo.-Prospect from the palace; an observation of Mr. Walpole's on the views in that part of Italy.-Latin inscriptions, ancient and modern LETTER 22. To his MOTHER.-Road to Naples.-Beautiful situation of that city.-Its bay.-Of Baix, and several other antiquities. Some account of the first discovery of an ancient town, now known to be Herculaneum p. 243 LETTER 23. 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

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LETTER 24. From Mr. WEST.-On his quitting the Temple, and reason for it LETTER 25. To Mr. WEST.-Answer to the foregoing letter.Some account of Naples and its environs, and of Mr. Walpole's and his return to Florence p. 252 LETTER 26. 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 p. 257 LETTER 27. To Mr. WEST.-Description in Latin Hexameters of the sudden rising of Monte Nuovo near Puzzoli, and of the destruction which attended it. p. 260 LETTER 28. To his FATHER.-Uncertainty of the route he 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 p. 265 LETTER 29. 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

p. 267 LETTER 30. 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

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Account of Mr. Gray's return home, and of his second visit to the Grand Chartreuse, where he wrote an Alcaic Ode, which concludes the Section

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SECTION III.

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 corresponds with Mr. West

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LETTER 1. From Mr. WEST.-His spirits not as yet improved by country air. Has begun to read Tacitus, but does not relish him p. 280 LETTER 2. To Mr. WEST.-Earnest hopes for his friend's better health, as the warm weather comes on.n.-Defence of Tacitus, and his character. Of the new Dunciad.-Sends him a speech from the first scene of his Agrippina

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The Plan, Dramatis Personæ, and all the speeches which Mr. Gray wrote of that Tragedy inserted

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LETTER 3. From Mr. WEST.-Criticism on his friend's tragic
style.-Latin Hexameters on his own cough
LETTER 4. To Mr. WEST.-Thanks for his verses.-On Joseph
Andrews.-Defence of old words in Tragedy.

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LETTER 5. From Mr. WEST.-Answer to the former, on the subject of antiquated expressions

LETTER 6. To Mr. WEST.-Has laid aside his Tragedy.-Difficulty of translating Tacitus LETTER 7. From Mr. WEST.-With an English Ode on the approach of May

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LETTER 8. To Mr. WEST.-Criticises his Ode.-Of his own classical studies

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LETTER 9. From Mr. WEST.-Answer to the foregoing p. 315

ODE I.

ON THE SPRING.

LO! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours,

Fair VENUS' train appear,

Disclose the long-expecting flowers,
And wake the purple year!

The Attic warbler pours her throat,
Responsive to the cuckoo's note,
The untaught harmony of spring:
While whisp'ring pleasure as they fly,
Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky
Their gather'd fragrance fling.

Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch

A broader browner shade;

Where'er the rude and moss-grown

O'er-canopies the glade,

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