WORKS

OF

THOMAS GRA Y;

VOL. II.

CONTAINING

THE LETTERS;

WITH

IMPORTANT ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

FROM

HIS OWN MANUSCRIPTS.

SELECTED AND EDITED

BY THE REV. JOHN MITFORD.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, 39, LUDGATE-STREET,

BY H. BRYER, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS,

LIBRARY

N. B. Those Letters entirely new, or not published in Mr. Mason's Work,
are marked with an Asterisk*; those imperfectly published by Mr. Mason
with a Dagger ↑.

SECTION THE FIRST.

LETTER

I. From Mr. West. Complains of his Friend's Silence

11.

To Mr. West. Answer to the Former. A Translation of
some Lines from Statius

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III. From Mr. West. Approbation of the Version. Ridicule on

the Cambridge Collection of Verses on the Marriage of the

Prince of Wales

Preface of the Editor to the subsequent Letter
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 Cor-

respondent not to give up Poetry when he applies himself

to the Law

VI. To Mr. Walpole.

VII. From Mr. West.

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Excuse for not Writing to him, &c.

A Poetical Epistle addressed to his Cam-

bridge Friends, taken in part from Tibullus and a Prose

Letter of Mr. Pope

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VIII. To Mr. West. Thanks him for his Poetical Epistle. Com-

-plains of Low Spirits. Lady Walpole's Death, and his

Concern for Mr. H. Walpole

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