George I., ancestry, [57]; comes to England, [58]; his character, [58]; his wife, [58], [59].

George II., [59-61]; his reign, [61].

George III., character and personality of, [181-187].

Gibbon, Edward, birth, parentage, and education, [122]; his love for Mlle. Curchod, afterward Madame Necker, [133], [124]; a member of the "Literary Club, " [124], [127]; as an author, [124], [125]; his Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, [125], [127-130]; as a man, [125], [126]; in Paris, [126]; his burial-place, [145].

Goldsmith, Oliver, a member of the "Literary Club, " [130], [131]; as a writer, [132], [133]; his death, [133], [134]; his burial-place, [144], [145].

Gray, Thomas, birth, parentage, and education, [79], [80]; opinions of his work, [80]; his fastidious refinement, [80-82]; the Elegy churchyard, [82]; and the Rowley Poems, [208].

Halket, George, [229].

Hayley, William, a friend of Cowper's, [249].

Hesketh, Lady, her interest in Cowper, [250], [252].

Homer, Pope's translation of, [43-45]; Cowper's translation, [250], [251].