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these which at such a moment gathered in this bruised heart all the splendours of nature and history, to make them spring up in sparkling jets, and shine under the most glowing poetic sun that ever rose ! We feel pity; we think of that other poet, away there in the Isle of Wight, who amuses himself by dressing up lost epics. How happy he is amongst his fine books, his friends, his honeysuckles and roses! No matter. De Musset, in this very spot, in this filth and misery, rose higher. From the heights of his doubt and despair, he saw the infinite, as we see the sea from a storm-beaten promontory. Religions, their glory and their decay, the human race, its pangs and its destiny, all that is sublime in the world, appeared there to him in a flash of lightning. He felt, at least this once in his life, the inner tempest of deep sensations, giant-dreams, and intense voluptuousness, whose desire enabled him to live, and whose lack forced him to die. He was no mere dilettante; he was not content to taste and enjoy; he left his mark on human thought; he told the world what was man, love, truth, happiness. He suffered, but he invented; he fainted, but he produced. He tore from his entrails with despair the idea which he had conceived, and showed it to the eyes of all, bloody but alive. That is harder and lovelier than to go fondling and gazing upon the ideas of others. There is in the world but one work worthy of a man, the production of a truth, to which we devote ourselves, and in which we believe. The people who have listened to Tennyson are better than our aristocracy of townsfolk and bohemians; but I prefer Alfred de Musset to Tennyson.

INDEX.

ABELARD, i. 133, 135.
Addison, Joseph, ii. 39, 60, 67, 76;
his life and writings, 89-115, 256,
265, 396, 406, 412 seq., 433.
Adhelm, i. 50, 54, 156.
Agriculture, improvement in, in six-
teenth century, i. 146; in the nine-
teenth, ii. 224, 326 seq.
Akenside, Mark, ii. 220.
Alcuin, i. 50, 55.

Alexander vI., Pope, i. 354.
Alexandrian philosophy, i. 16.
Alfred the Great, i. 50, 54.
Alison, Sir Archibald, ii. 224.

Amory, Thomas, ii. 180.

Beattie, James, ii. 182, 220.
Beauclerk, Henry, i. 61.
Beaumont, Francis, i. 245, 258-266,
384, 387, 433.

Becket, Thomas à, i. 80.
Beckford, W., ii. 251.
Bede, the Venerable, i. 50.
Bedford, Duke of (John Russell), ii.
75.

Beethoven, Lewis van, ii. 259.
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, i. 479; ii. 29.
Bell, Currer. See Brontë, Charlotte.
Bénoit de Sainte-Maure, i. 61.
Bentham, Jeremy, ii. 84, 406.

Bentley, Richard, ii. 69, 70.

Angelo, Michael, i. 155, 306; ii. 213. Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem,

Anglo-Saxon poetry, i. 41 seq.

Ann of Cleves, i. 157.

i. 38-41.

Béranger, i. 359; ii. 418.

Anselm, i. 61.

Anthology, the, i. 176, 202.

Arbuthnot, Dr. John, ii. 133.

Berkeley, Bishop, ii. 69.

Berkley, Sir Charles, i. 466.

Berners, Lord, i. 157.

Architecture, Norman, i. 60, 61, 107; Best, Paul, i. 391.

the Tudor style, 147.

Ariosto, i. 156, 187; ii. 14.

Aristocracy, British, in the nineteenth
century, ii. 328 seq.

Arkwright, Sir Richard, ii. 84.
Armada, the, i. 146, 235.

Arnold, Dr. Thomas, ii. 270, 334.

Arthur and Merlin, romance of, i. 62.
Ascham, Roger, i. 153, 207, 353.
Athelstan, i. 28, 42.
Augier, Emile, ii. 355.
Austen, Jane, ii. 258.

BACON, Francis, Lord, i. 207, 215-221,
378, 382; ii. 403 seq., 416.

Bacon, Roger, i. 135.

Bain, Alexander, ii. 337.

Bakewell, Robert, ii. 84.

Bale, John, i. 156.

Pible, English. See Wiclif, Tyndale.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, i. 4.
Blount, Edward, i. 162.
Boccaccio, i. 106, 110; ii. 39.
Bodley, Sir Thomas, i. 208.
Boethius, i. 50-53.

Boileau, i. 469, 501; ii. 3, 36, 54, 196,
202, 466.

Boleyn, Ann, i. 232.

Bolingbroke, Lord (Henry St. John),

ii. 46 seq., 69, 197, 396.
Bonner, Edmund, i. 377.
Borde, Andrew, i. 156.
Borgia, Cæsar, i. 354, 355.
Borgia, Lucretia, i. 154, 354.

Bossu (or Lebossu), ii. 3, 106, 110.
Bossuet, i. 14; ii. 11, 211, 433.
Boswell, James, ii. 185 seq.
Bourchier. See Berners.

Balzac, Honoré de, i. 3; ii. 361, 392. Boyle, the Hon. Robert, ii. 69.

Barclay, Alexander, i. 138.

Barclay, John, ii. 60.

Barclay, Robert, i. 398.

Barrow, Isaac, ii. 60, 63 seq.

Baxter, Richard, i. 225, 396; ii. 60.

Bayly's (Lewis) Practice of Piety, i.

401.

Bridaine, Father, ii. 65.

Britons, ancient, i. 29.

Bronte, Charlotte (Currer Bell), ii.
258, 270, 337.

Browne, Sir Thomas, i. 207, 208, 213-
215, 378, 382.

Browning, Mrs., ii. 270, 337.

Brunanburh, Athelstan's victory at,
celebrated in Saxon song, i. 42.
Buckingham, Duke of (John Sheffield),
i. 476, 498, 501.

Buckle, Henry Thomas, ii. 316 seq.,
333.

Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, ii. 258, 337.
Bunyan, John, i. 398-408, 460.
Burke, Edmund, ii. 69, 81-88, 185, 417,
433.

Burleigh, Lord (William Cecil), i. 230;
ii. 419.

Burnet, Bishop, ii. 60.
Burney, Francisca (Madame D'Ar-
blay), ii. 53, 84, 185, 409.
Burns, Robert, ii. 27; sketch of his
life and works, 228-241.
Burton, Robert, i. 148, 209-212, 378,
433.

Busby, Dr. Richard, ii. 31.
Bute, Lord, ii. 46 seq., 75.
Butler, Bishop, ii. 84.

Butler, Samuel, i. 463-466; ii. 70.
Byng, Admiral, ii. 75.

Byron, Lord, ii. 200, 242; his life and
works, 271-312.

CEDMON, hymns of, i. 45, 48; his
metrical paraphrase of parts of the
Bible, 48-50, 156.
Calamy, Edmund, i. 398.
Calderon, i. 135, 234, 478.
Calvin, John, i. 359, 388; ii. 68.
Camden, William, i. 207.
Campbell, Thomas, ii. 250, 280.
Carew, Thomas, i. 201.
Carlyle, Thomas, i. 5; ii. 270, 333;
style and mind, 437 seq.; vocation,
452 seq.; philosophy, morality, and
criticism, 458 seq.; conception of
history, 467.

Carteret, John (Earl Granville), ii. 76.
Castlereagh, Lord, i. 268.

Catherine, St., play of, i. 61.
Cellini, Benvenuto, i. 20, 95, 155.

Cervantes, i. 83, 126, 187; ii. 158.

Chalmers, George, i. 56.

Christianity, introduction of, into
Britain, i. 44, 50.
Chroniclers, French, i. 68.
Chronicles, Saxon, i. 53.
Cibber, Colley, ii. 198, 205.
Cimbrians, the, i. 31.

Clarendon, Lord Chancellor (Edward
Hyde), i. 207, 466.
Clarke, Dr. John, ii. 58, 68.
Classic spirit in Europe, its origin and
nature, i. 490-492.
Classical authors translated, i. 152,
160.

Clive, Lord, ii. 406.
Coleridge, Hartley, ii. 235.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ii. 248.
Collier, Jeremy, ii. 4, 31.
Collins, William, ii. 221.
Colman, George, i. 530.
Comedy-writers, English, i. 504 seq.
Comines, Philippe de, i. 104.
Commerce in sixteenth century, i.
145; ii. 324 seq.

Comte, Auguste, ii. 480.
Condillac, Stephen-Bonnot de, ii. 456,
480.

Congreve, William, i. 504-522; ii. 53.
Conybeare, J. J., i. 42 seq.
Corbet, Bishop, i. 379.
Corneille, i. 10; ii. 3, 13.
Cotton, Sir Robert, i. 207, 208.
Court pageantries in the sixteenth
century, i. 148, 149.
Coventry, Sir John, i. 467.
Coverdale, Miles, i. 367.

Cowley, Abraham, i. 204-206, 378,
409.

Cowper, William, ii. 243-247.
Crabbe, George, ii. 246, 280.
Cranmer, Archbishop, i. 362, 369.
Crashaw, Richard, i. 378.
Criticism and History, ii. 402 seq.
Cromwell, Oliver, i. 5, 379, 391; ii.
410, 445, 470.
Crowne, John, i. 479.

Curll, Edmund, ii. 205.

Chandos, Duke of (John Brydges), ii. DANIEL, Samuel, i. 207.

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Darwin, Charles, i. 10.

Davie, Adam, i. 77.
Davies, Sir John, i. 378.
Day, John, i. 389.
Decker, Thomas, i. 236.
De Foe, ii. 73, 151-158, 328.
Delille, James, ii. 208.

Denham, Sir John, i. 501-504.
Denmark, i. 24.

Chillingworth, William, i. 207, 379, Dennis, John, ii. 93.

381; ii. 67.

Descartes, i. 473; ii. 11, 456.

Dickens, Charles, ii. 258, 270; his Fletcher, John, i. 245, 258-266, 384,

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Fortescue, Sir John, i. 94 seq.

Dorset, Earl of (Charles Sackville), i. Fox, Charles James, ii. 48, 76, 80

497, 498.

Drake, Admiral, i. 146.

Drake, Dr. Nathan, i. 146, 228.
Drama, formation of the, i. 245 seq.
Drayton, Michael, i. 173, 179, 378.
Drummond, William, i. 433.
Dryden, John, i. 14, 433; his comedies,
476-479, 501; his life and writings,
ii. 1-44, 94, 195, 453.

Dudevant, Madame (George Sand), ii.
355.

Dunstan, St., i. 28 seq.
Durer, Albert, i. 357, 358.
Dyer, Sir Edward, i. 171.

EARLE, John, i. 208.

seq.

Fox, George, i. 393, 398, 460.
Fox, John, i. 361 seq.
Francis of Assisi, i. 135.
Freeman, Edward A., i. 59.
Frisians, the, i. 24, 25.
Froissart, i. 68, 85, 106, 107, 110.
Froude, J. A., i. 86, 362 seq.
Fuller, Thomas, i. 268.

GAIMAR, Geoffroy, i. 61, 75.
Gainsborough,

painter, i. 530.

Thomas, landscape

Garrick, David, ii. 185, 188.

Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth C., ii. 258, 337.
Gay, John, i. 523; ii. 50, 194, 215-217.

Eddas, the Scandinavian, i. 32-36; Geoffrey of Monmouth, i. 112.

ii. 289.

Edgeworth, Maria, ii. 391.

Edward VI., i. 373.

Edwy and Elgiva, story of, i. 29, 30.
Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary A.
England, climate of, i. 25.

English Constitution, formation of
the, i. 87.

Elizabeth, Queen, i. 148-150, 207, 228.
Elwin, Whitwell, ii. 195 seq.
Erigena, John Scotus, i. 50, 54.
Esménard, Joseph Alphonse, i. 137.
Essex, Robert, Earl of, i. 228, 230.
Etheredge, Sir George, i. 479.

Evans, Mary A. (George Eliot), ii.
258, 335, 337.
Eyck, Van, i. 126.

FALKLAND, Lord, i. 207.
Farnese, Pietro Luigi, i. 354.
Farquhar, George, i. 504-522.
Faust, ii. 227.

Feltham, Owen, i. 208.

Fenn, Sir John, i. 145.

Ferguson, Dr. Adam, ii. 71, 406.

Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, ii. 203, 204.

Feudalism, the protection and charac-
ter of, i. 58, 59.

Fichte, ii. 457.

German ideas, introduction of, in

Europe and England, ii. 452 seq.
Germany, drinking habits in, i. 356.
Gibbon, Edward, ii. 185.
Gladstone, William Ewart, ii. 408.
Glencoe, massacre of, ii. 430 seq.
Glover, Richard, ii. 221.
Godwin, William, ii. 265.
Goethe, i. 5, 14, 442, 448; ii. 174, 227,
249, 291-296, 452 seq.

Goldsmith, Oliver, i. 523; ii. 73, 182-
185.

Goltzius, i. 165.

Gower, John, i. 73, 136.

Grammont, Count de, i. 462, 489,
490.

Gray, Thomas, ii. 220.

Greene, Robert, i. 173, 176, 177, 236,
237, 305.

Grenville, George, ii. 75.
Gresset, J. B. Lewis, ii. 204.
Grey, Lady Jane, i. 152, 228.
Grostête, Robert, i. 73, 77.
Grote, George, ii. 337.
Guicciardini, Ludovic, i. 146.
Guido, i. 13.

Guizot, i. 89; ii. 409, 414, 433.
Guy of Warwick, i. 62.

Fielding, Henry, i. 268, 462; ii. HABINGTON, William, i. 203.

170-176, 190.

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Hackluyt, Richard, i. 207.
Hale, Sir Matthew, i. 363.
Hales, John, i. 207, 379, 381; ii. 68.
Halifax, Charles Montague, Earl of,
ii. 91, 95, 117, 121.

Hall, Bishop Joseph, i. 208, 379.
Hallam, Henry, i. 98; ii. 410.
Hamilton, Anthony, i. 462 seq.

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