INDEX TO VOLUME THE SECOND. Amo»etta, by the Editor 173 Anonymous Authors 163 Bayley, Peter 154 Beloe, William 97 Bloomfield, Robert 156 Brydges, Samuel Egerton 81 Burns, Robert: 86 Coleridge, S. T 118 Courtier, P. L 149 Coxe, Edward 161 Davenport, Richard Alfred 103 Dacre, Charlotte 146 Dermody, Thomas 140 Druminond, George Hay 63 Graeme, James 38 Gifford, WiUiam 113 Hunter, Anne 65 Kendall, William 102 Laurence, French 74 Leftly, Charles 125 Logan, John 45 Lovibond, Edward 31 Polwhele, Richard 76 Porter, Anna Maria 110 Pott, Joseph Holden 61 Preston, William 69 Richardson, William 58 Robinson, Mary 90 Rogers, Samuel 85 Roscoe, William 121 Russell, Thomas 71 Seward, Anna 123 Shenstone, William 14 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 54 Smyth, William 122 Thompson, William 1 Thomson, James 8 Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury 33 Wolcott, John 79 Wordsworth, William 127 WILLIAM THOMPSON. William Thompson, second son of the Reverend Francis Thompson, was probably born at Brough in Westmoreland, of which his rather was vicar, about the year 1712. He was sent early to the University of Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Queen's College. Few anecdotes are recorded of his life; nor is the time of his death ascertained. Two years oefore his entering into orders (1736), he appears to have been attracted by the charms of a lady named Woodford, but it is not certain that she was the same who is celebrated as Ianthe, in most of his subsequent poems. Ianthe, however, could not be unknown to him about the year 1740, since she is introduced in his description of an illness that terminated in the smallpox, from which he was at that time recovering. The Day was Valentine's, when lovers' wounds |