GRANTHAM, first Baron, i. 434, n. 3.
GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2.
GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord.
GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl,
described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5;
despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12;
mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78.
GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246;
fruit of great cultivation, v. 232.
GRATTAN, Henry, ‘one link of the English chain,’ iv. 317;
mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1.
Grave, The, iii. 47.
GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2.
GRAVES, Rev. Richard,
author of The Spiritual Quixote, i. 75, n. 3;
Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5;
property, v. 4S7, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 452.
GRAVINA, iv. 199.
GRAY, Sir James, ii. 177.
GRAY, John, bookseller, i. 153.
GRAY, Thomas, abruptness, his, i. 403;
Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32;
Beattie, friendship with, v. 16, n. 1;
blank verse, disliked, i. 427. n. 2;
Boswell sat up all night reading him, ii. 335, n. 2;
Boswell’s Corsica and Paoli, ii. 46, n. 1;
Cohnan’s Odes to Obscurity, ii. 334;
disjecta membra, i. 403, n. 4;
Distant Prospect of Eton College quoted, i. 344;
doctor’s degree offered him at Aberdeen, ii. 267, n. 1;
Dryden’s ‘car,’ ii. 5, n. 2;
‘dull fellow, a,’ ii. 327;
Elegy, imitated, v. 117, n. 4;
mended by Goldsmith, i. 404, n. 1;
quoted, iii. 190, n. 2, 204;
sneered at, ii. 328, n. 2;
Young’s parody of Johnson’s criticism on it, iv. 392, n. 1
(see just below under Johnson);
happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3;
Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1;
Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2;
finds two good stanzas, ii. 328;
criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv. 13, 16, n. 4;
criticism attacked, iv. 64;
defended by Boswell, i. 404;
cites him in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3;
praises his Letters, iii. 31, n. 1;
writes his Life, iii. 427;
works, did not taste, ii. 335;
calls him Ursa Major, v. 384, n. 1;
Long Story cited, v. 292;
Mackintosh criticises his style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Mason’s Memoirs of him, i. 29;
higher in them than in his poems, iii. 31;
‘mechanical poet, a,’ ii. 327;
Odeon Vicissitude, iv. 138, n. 4;
Odes praised by Cumberland’s Ode, iii. 43, n. 3;
Pope’s condensation of thought, admires, v. 345, n. 2;
and his Homer, iii. 257, n. 1;
Progress of Poetry, quoted, iii. 165, n. 2;
Remains, his, preparation for publication, ii. 164;
Sixteen-string Jack, compared to, iii. 38;
Spleen, The, admires, iii. 38, n. 3;
Sterne’s popularity, ii. 222. n. 1;
‘sunshine of the breast,’ v. 160, n. 2;
‘warm Gray,’ ii. 334.
Gray’s Inn Journal, i. 309, 328, 356.
GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2.
GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord.
GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl,
described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5;
despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12;
mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78.
GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246;
fruit of great cultivation, v. 232.
GRATTAN, Henry, ‘one link of the English chain,’ iv. 317;
mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1.
Grave, The, iii. 47.
GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2.
GRAVES, Rev. Richard,
author of The Spiritual Quixote, i. 75, n. 3;
Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5;
property, v. 4S7, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 452.
GRAVINA, iv. 199.
GRAY, Sir James, ii. 177.
GRAY, John, bookseller, i. 153.
GRAY, Thomas, abruptness, his, i. 403;
Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32;
Beattie, friendship with, v. 16, n. 1;
blank verse, disliked, i. 427. n. 2;
Boswell sat up all night reading him, ii. 335, n. 2;
Boswell’s Corsica and Paoli, ii. 46, n. 1;
Cohnan’s Odes to Obscurity, ii. 334;
disjecta membra, i. 403, n. 4;
Distant Prospect of Eton College quoted, i. 344;
doctor’s degree offered him at Aberdeen, ii. 267, n. 1;
Dryden’s ‘car,’ ii. 5, n. 2;
‘dull fellow, a,’ ii. 327;
Elegy, imitated, v. 117, n. 4;
mended by Goldsmith, i. 404, n. 1;
quoted, iii. 190, n. 2, 204;
sneered at, ii. 328, n. 2;
Young’s parody of Johnson’s criticism on it, iv. 392, n. 1
(see just below under Johnson);
happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3;
Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1;
Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2;
finds two good stanzas, ii. 328;
criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv. 13, 16, n. 4;
criticism attacked, iv. 64;
defended by Boswell, i. 404;
cites him in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3;
praises his Letters, iii. 31, n. 1;
writes his Life, iii. 427;
works, did not taste, ii. 335;
calls him Ursa Major, v. 384, n. 1;
Long Story cited, v. 292;
Mackintosh criticises his style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Mason’s Memoirs of him, i. 29;
higher in them than in his poems, iii. 31;
‘mechanical poet, a,’ ii. 327;
Odeon Vicissitude, iv. 138, n. 4;
Odes praised by Cumberland’s Ode, iii. 43, n. 3;
Pope’s condensation of thought, admires, v. 345, n. 2;
and his Homer, iii. 257, n. 1;
Progress of Poetry, quoted, iii. 165, n. 2;
Remains, his, preparation for publication, ii. 164;
Sixteen-string Jack, compared to, iii. 38;
Spleen, The, admires, iii. 38, n. 3;
Sterne’s popularity, ii. 222. n. 1;
‘sunshine of the breast,’ v. 160, n. 2;
‘warm Gray,’ ii. 334.
Gray’s Inn Journal, i. 309, 328, 356.