lating to Dodsley's publication of the Elegy, and to
Mr. Mason's Elfrida. 543.-Letter v. Further no-
tices respecting the Elfrida. Errata in the edition
of the Elegy. The "Lying Valet," "Pompey the
Little," and a Parody on Mr. Littelton's " Monody,"
noticed. 554.-Letter vi. What ought to be done
when misunderstandings arise between friends. His
opinion of Mr. Lyttelton's Elegy. Recommends
the publication of Mr. Walpole's Epistle to Mr.
Asheton from Florence. Offers three of his Odes
for Dodsley's Collection. 546.-Letter vii. Enquiries
respecting Mr. Walpole's literary pursuits. Sends
the first scene of his unfinished tragedy of Agrip-
pina. 547.-Letter viii. Relating to Dodsley's in-
tended edition of Mr. Gray's Odes, with Mr. Bent-
ley's designs. 548.-Letter ix. Acknowledges the
receipt of Dodsley's Collection of Poems.
opinion of the principal compositions in that Col-
lection. 549.-Letter x. Relating to "The Bard."
552.-Letter xi. Relating to the Specimens of Erse
poetry, and to the Scottish poem of Hardicknute.
553.-Letter xii. His opinion of some of the charac-
ters in Rousseau's Eloise. 554.-Letter xiii. Hints
respecting a proposed "History of the manners,
customs, habits, &c. &c. of England," by Mr. Wal-
pole. 554.-Letter xv. Relating to the "Castle of
Otranto," "A Letter concerning Libels, Warrants,

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seizure of papers, &c. &c." and Rousseau's "Letters." 560.-Letter xvi. Advice to Mr. Walpole (at Paris) respecting his health. Description of a curious Print after Diepenbeck, and of an old Picture at Cambridge. 561.-Letter xvii. Relating chiefly to passages in Mr. Walpole's "Historick Doubts." 563.-Letter xviii. Explanations respecting a new edition of his poems. Some observations on Speed's and Leslie's account of Perkin Warbeck, as connected with Mr. Walpole's "Historick Doubts, &c." 567.

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VOLUME THE SECOND

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SECTION I.

METRUM.

INTRODUCTION by the Editor.-Observations on English Metre. 3.-On the Pseudo-Rhythmus. 31. -Observations on the use of Rhyme. 44.-Additional ditto. 50.-Remarks on the Poems of Lydgate. 55.

SECTION II.

POETICAL-MISCELLANEOUS-CLASSICAL.

INTRODUCTION by the Editor. 83.-Translation from Propertius. 85.-Ditto from Ditto. 87.-Ditto from Tasso. 90.-Latin translation from Petrarch. 93.Ditto from the Anthologia Græca. 94.-Architectura Gothica. 98.-Gothi. 104.-Literæ. 111.Histrio et Saltatio. 114.-History from Lucian. 119. -Xenophon's Apologia Socratis. 121.-Lacedæmon. 123.-Miscellanea Classica. 126.-Notes on

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Aristophanes: Acharnenses. 132-Equites. 136— Vespæ. 139-Nubes. 143-Pax. 146-Aves. 151Thesmophoriazusæ. 165-Lysistrata. 167-Ranæ. 169 Ecclesiazusæ. 173-Plutus. 176.

SECTION III.

GEOGRAPHICAL.

RELATING TO SOME PARTS OF INDIA AND OF PERSIA.

INTRODUCTION by the Editor. 183.-Authors cited in comparing the ancient and modern state of India and of Persia. 187.-Ancient Description of the Coast, proceeding from the river Indus eastward. 193. The Inland Country according to Strabo and Arrian. 218. Of the Ganges, and of the rivers which join it, from the same authors and from Pliny. 223.-The Coast upon the Southern Ocean, from the mouth of the Indus west to the Persian Gulph, and the confines of Persis, according to Nearchus. 227.-Aria. 231.-Carmania the Desert. 240.-Parthia. 242.-Margiana. 265.-Bactriana.

271.

SECTION IV,

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DIALOGUES AND OF THE EPISTLES OF PLATO.

INTRODUCTION by the Editor. 293.-(General View of the Works of Plato by Mr. Sydenham). *289. Brief Notices of Socrates and of his Friends. 299. The Phædrus. 307-Lysis. 316-Alcibiades I. 318

-Alcibiades II. 321-Theages. 324-Euthyphro. 327-Apologia Socratis. 329-Crito. 334-Phædo. 334-Erastæ. 337-Laches. 338-Hipparchus. 343 Philebus. 344-Meno. 352-Gorgias. 357-Minos. 371-Charmides. 373-Cratylus. 376-Symposium. · 377-Euthydemus. 382-Hippias Major. 385Hippias Minor. 386-Protagoras. 387-Io. 403Theætetus. 408-The Sophist. 411-Politicus. 415 De Republica. 421-Book I. 422—II. 425—III. 429 -IV. 433-V. 437—VI. 441-VII. 445-VIII. 448-IX. 453-X. 456-De Legibus. 460-Book I. 461 II. 469-III. 473-IV. 481-V. 485The Epistles: Epistle I. 490-II. 491-III. 494IV. 496-V. 497-VI. 498-VII. 501-VIII. 509 IX. 511-X. and XI. 512-XII, 517-XIII. 523. -Emendationes in Platonis Textum ex Edit. Serrani, H. Steph. Conjecturâ F. Sydenhami. 513 to 547.

APPENDIX.

A Specimen of some Illustrations of the Systema Naturæ of Linnæus by Mr. Gray.-Introduction by the Editor. 551-Linnæi Classis I. &c. &c. 555 to 580-Postscript to this Edition of the Works of T. Gray by the Editor. 583 to 629.

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