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From Mr. West.-Complains of his friend's
silence

II. To Mr. West.-Answer to the former.-
A translation of some lines from Statius
III. From Mr. West.-Approbation of the ver-
sion.-Ridicule on the Cambridge Col-
lection of Verses on the Marriage of
the Prince of Wales.

IV. To Mr. West.-On the little encourage-
ment which he finds given to classical
learning at Cambridge.-His aversion
to metaphysical and mathematical stu-
dies

V. From Mr. West.-Answer to the former,
advises his correspondent not to give
up poetry when he applies himself to
the law

VI. To Mr. Walpole.-Excuse for not writing
to him, &c.

VII. From Mr. West.-A poetical epistle ad-
dressed to his Cambridge friend, taken
in part from Tibullus, and a prose let-
ter of Mr. Pope

VIII. To Mr. West.-Thanks him for his po-
etical epistle.-Complains of low spirits.
-Lady Walpole's death, and his con-
cern for Mr. H. Walpole :

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IX. To Mr. Walpole.-How he spends his own
time in the country.-Meets with Mr.
Southern, the dramatic poet

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To Mr. Walpole.-Supposed manner in
which Mr. Walpole spends his time in
the country

XI. From Mr. West.-Sends him a translation
into Latin of a Greek epigram

XII. To Mr. West.-A Latin epistle in answer
to the foregoing

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XIII. From Mr. West.-On leaving the Univer-
sity, and removing to the Temple
XIV. To Mr. West.-A Sapphic Ode, occasioned
by the preceding letter, with a Latin
postscript, concluding with an Alcaic
fragment

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XV. From Mr. West.-Thanks for his Ode, &c.
-His idea of sir Robert Walpole . . 29
XVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Congratulates him on
his new place.-Whimsical description
of the quadrangle of Peter-House . 30
XVII. To Mr. West.-On his own leaving the
University

XVIII. From Mr. West.-Sends him a Latin
Elegy in answer to Mr. Gray's Sapphic
Ode

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XIX. To his Mother.-His voyage from Dover.
-Description of Calais.-Abbeville.-
Amiens, Face of the country, and dress
of the people

XX. To Mr. West.-Monuments of the kings
of France at St. Denis, &c.-French
opera and music.-Actors, &c.

XXI. To Mr. West.-Palace of Versailles.-Its
gardens and water-works.-Installation
of the Knights du S. Esprit

XXII. To his Mother.-Rheims.-Its Cathedral.

-Disposition and amusements of its in-
habitants

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XXIII. To his Father.-Face of the country be-
tween Rheims and Dijon.-Description

of the latter.-Monastery of the Carthu
sians and Cistercians

XXIV. To Mr. West.-Lyons.-Beauty of its en-
virons.-Roman antiquities

XXV From Mr. West.-His wishes to accompany
his friend. His retired life in London.
-Address to his Lyre, in Latin Sapphics,
on the prospect of Mr. Gray's return

XXVI. To his Mother.-Lyons.-Excursion to the
Grande Chartreuse.--Solemn and roman-

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tic approach to it. His reception there,
and commendation of the monastery. 52

XXVII. To his Father.-Geneva.-Advantage of
a free government exhibited in the very
look of the people.-Beauty of the lake,
and plenty of its fish

XXVIII. To his Mother.-Journey over the Alps
to Turin. Singular accident in passing
them.-Method of travelling over Mount

Cenis

XXIX. To Mr. West.Turin.-Its Carnival.-
More of the views and scenery on the
road to the Grande Chartreuse.-Wild
and savage prospects amongst the Alps
agreeable to Livy's description

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XXX. To Mr. West. Genoa. Music.-The
Doge. Churches and the Palazzo
Doria.

XXXI. To his Mother.-Paintings at Modena.-
Bologna.-Beauty and richness of Lom-

bardy

XXXII. To his Mother.-The Apennines.-Flo-
rence and its gallery

XXXIII. To Mr. West.-Journey from Genoa to
Florence-Elegiac verses occasioned by
the sight of the plains where the battle
of Trebia was fought

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XXXIV. From Mr. West.-Latin Elegy, expressing

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his wishes to see Italy and Greece.. 71
To his Mother.-Death of the pope.-In-
tended departure for Rome.-First and
pleasing appearance of an Italian spring 72

XXXVI. To his Mother.-Cathedral of Sienna.-
Viterbo.Distant sight of Rome.-The
Tiber. Entrance into the city.-St.
Peter's.-Introduction of the Cardinal
d'Auvergne into the conclave.

XXXVII. To his Mother.-Illumination of St. Peter's

on Good-Friday, &c.

XXXVIII. To Mr. West.-Comic account of the pa-
lace of the duke of Modena at Tivoli.-
The Anio. Its cascade.-Situation of
the town.-Villas of Horace and Mæ-
cenas, and other remains of antiquity.
-Modern aqueduets. A grand Roman
ball

XXXIX. To Mr. West.-An Aleaic ode.-Ludicrous
allusion to ancient customs.-Albano
and its lake.-Castel Gondolfo.-Pro-
spect from the palace; an observation
of Mr. Walpole's on the views in that
part of Italy.-Latin inscriptions, an-
cient and modern

XL. To his Mother.-Road to Naples.-Beau-
tiful situation of that city.-Its bay.-
Of Baiæ, and several other antiquities.-
Some account of the first discovery of
an ancient town, not known to be Her-
eulaneum

XLI. 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 Pre-
tender, his sons, and court.-Procession
at Naples.-Sight of the king and queen.
Mildness of the air at Florence

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XLII. From Mr. West.-On his quitting the Tem-

ple, and reason for it

XLIII. 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

XLIV. 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.

XLV. To Mr. West.-Description in Latin hex-
ameters of the sudden rising of Monte
Nuovo near Puzzoli, and of the destruc-
tion which attended it

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XLVI. 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

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XLVII. To his Father.-Total want of amusement
at Florence, occasioned by the late em-
peror's funeral not being public.-A pro-
cession to avert the ill effects of a late
inundation. Intention of going to Ve-
nice. An invasion from the Neapolitans
apprehended.-The inhabitants of Tus-
cany dissatisfied with the government
XLVIII. 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 -Imita-
tion, in the same language, of an Italian

sonnet

XLIX. From Mr. West.-His spirits not as yet

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