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. Great, how pronounced, ii. 161. GREAT, the, cant against their manners, iii. 353; Johnson, never courted by, iv. 116; did not seek his society, iv. 117; or Richardson's, ib., n. 1; officious friends, have, ii. 65, n. 4; seeking their acquaintance, ii. 10; iii. 189. 'GREAT HE,' ii. 210. GREAT MOGUL, ii. 40, n. 4. GREAVES, Samuel, iv. 253. GREECE, fountain of knowledge, iii. 333; modern Greece swept by the Turks, ii. 194. GREEK, books for beginners, iii. 407; Genardus's Grammar, iv. 20; essential to a good education, i. 457; like lace, iv. 23; a woman's knowledge of it, i. 122, n. 4. See JOHNSON, Greek. GREEKS, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; dramatists, iv. 16; empire, iii. 36. GREEN, John, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 45. GREEN, Matthew, iii. 405, n. 1. GREEN, Richard, of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 465; his Museum, ib.; iii. 412; Johnson, letter from, iv. 393; mentioned, iii. 393; iv. 399, n. 5. GREEN ROOM, of Drury Lane, i. 201. Green Sleeves, v. 260. GREENE, Burnaby, i. 517. GREENHOUSES, ii. 168; iv. 206. GREENWICH, Boswell and Johnson's day there, i. 457; Hospital, i. 460; Johnson composes part of Irene in the Park, i. 106; lodges in Church Street, i. 107; Park, described by Miss Talbot, i. 106, n. 2; not equal to Fleet Street, i. 461. GREGORY, David, Geometry, v. 294. GREGORY, Dr. James, iii. 126; v. 48. GREGORY, Dr. John, v. 48, n. 3. GREGORY, professors of that name, v. 48, n. 3. GREGORY, ----, iii. 454. GRENVILLE, Right Hon. George, Beckford's Bribery Bill, supports, ii. 339, n. 2; 'could have counted the Manilla ransom,' ii. 135; Johnson's letter to him, i. 376, n. 2. Grenville Act, iv. 74, n. 3; v. 391. GRETNA GREEN, iii. 68. GREVILLE, C. C., Johnson and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3; and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1; 'public dinner' at Lambeth, iv. 367, n. 3. GREVILLE, Richard Fulke, Maxims and Characters, iv. 304; account of him, ib., n. 4; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1. GREY, first Earl, iii. 424, n. 4. GREY, Dr. Richard, iii. 318. GREY, Stephen, ii. 26. GREY, Dr. Zachary, i. 444, n. 1; iii. 318; v. 225, n. 3. GRIEF, alleviated by recording recollections of the dead, i. 212; digested, to be, not diverted, iii. 28; effect of business engagements on it, ii. 470; Johnson's advice as to dealing with it, iii. 136; iv. 100, 142; not retained long by a sound mind, iii. 136; wears away soon, iii. 136. See SORROW. GRIERSON, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 116. GRIFFITHS, Ralph, the publisher, his evidence worthless, iii. 30, n. 1; war with Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2. GRIFFITHS, ----, of Bryn o dol, v. 449. GRIFFITHS, ----, of Kefnamwycllh, v. 452. GRIMM, Baron, Candide, i. 342; Mme, du Boccage, iv. 331, n. 1. GRIMSTON, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1. Grongar Hill, iv. 307. GRONOVII, v. 376. GROSVENOR, Lord, v. 458, n. 5. GROTIUS, corporal punishment, on, ii. 157, n. 1; Christian evidences, on, i. 398, 454; De Satisfactione Christi, v. 89; Isaac de Groot his descendant, iii. 125; practised as a lawyer, ii. 430; quoted in Lauder's fraud, i.