CHAPTER X.

THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THE

COMMONWEALTH.

148

John Hales, 1584-1656. .

112 Peace in the Church.

Wi. iam Chillingworth, 1602-

1644.

CHAPTER XI.

JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674.

161

Honor.

Caligula's Campaign in Britain.
The Procession of the Skimmington.
The Opposition in the Long Parliament.

Jehn Dryden, 1631-1700.

142. London after the Fire.
143. On Milton.

144. Character of Shaftesbury (Achitophel).
145. Character of Zimri (Villiers, Duke of

149

CHAPTER XII.

THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION.

141. Samuel Butler, 1612-1680. 182 | John Ray, 1628–1705.

On Content.

Against Anger.

Comforting the Afflicted.

Richard Baxter, 1615-1691.

117. From the "Saints' Rest."

Joseph Hall, 1574-1656.

118. The Pleasure of Study.

Owen Feltham. Circa 1610-

153. Influer ce of Government on the Char-

acter of a People.

132. Adam and Eve. (Book IV.)

133. Evening in Eden. (Book IV.)

134. Morning Prayer of Adam and Eve.

(Book V.)

135. Athens. (Book IV.) Par. Regained.

136. Lament of Samson.

137. Sonnet on his own Blindness.

138. On the late Massacre in Piedmont.

139. Argument for the Liberty of the Press.

Andrew Marvell, 1620-1678.

140. The Nymph complaining for the Death

of her Fawn.

154. Civilization designed by the Creator.

150. Alexander's Feast.

151. Chaucer and Cowley.

152. Shakspeare and Ben Jonson.

Algernon Sidney, 1621--1684. 195 Samuel Pepys, 1632-1703.

100. Mr. Pepys quarrels with his Wife.

136

158

don, 1608-1674.

156. Character of John Hampden.
157. Execution of Montrose,

Izaak Walton, 1593-1683.
158. Fishing.
Contentment.

John Evelyn, 1620-1706.

•

159. St. Paul's Cathedral and the Fire of
London.

15

197

155. John Bunyan, 1628-1688. 197

The Valley of Humiliation.

The Golden City.

184 Edward Hyde, Earl of Claren.

159

180

301

203

205

201

Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.

170. From the "Essay on Criticism."

Pride.

Sound an Echo to the Sense.

171. From the "Essay on Man."
The Scale of Being.

Omnipresence of the Deity.
Address to Bolingbroke.
172. Description of Belinda.
173. The Dying Christian to his Soul.

Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.

174. Country Hospitality.

175. The Academy of Legado.
176. Thoughts on Various Subjects.

Robert South, 1633-1716.

164. The State of Man before the Fall.

William Sherlock, 1678-1761. 212

165. Charity.

1699.

187. Against Excessive Grief.

joseph Addison, 1672-1719.

182. The Political Upholsterer.

183. The Vision of Mirza.

1771.

196. The Soldier Return.

THE

. 211

184. Reflections in Westminster Abbey.

185. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of

the Soul.

207 Robert Boyle, 1627-1691.

166. Practical Sufficiency of the great Prin

ciples of Morals.

208

CHAPTER XIV.

Pope, Swift, and the Poets in the ReigNS OF QUEEN- Anke.
GEORGE I., AND GEORGE II.

Sir Richard Steele, 1675-1729. 237

186: The Dream.

Sir William Temple, 1628-

Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731.

193. From "The Great Plague in London."

Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.

194. From "Tom Jones."

Tobias George Smollett, 1721-

CHAPTER XV.

John Howe, 1630-1705.

167. The Temple in Ruins.

218 | Matthew Prior, 1664-1721.

177. The Chameleon.

238

Gilbert Burnet, 1643-1715. .

168. Character of William III.

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642–1727.

169. Effect of an Experiment upon Light.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE GREAT NOVELISTs.

247

John Gay, 1688-1732.

178. The Hare and many Friends.

Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718.

179. Hymn to Contentment.

Edward Young, 1681-1765.

180. Procrastination.

Bishop Butler, 1692-1752. .

181. Evidence for Christianity sufficient.

1762.

192. From her Letters.

189. The Use of History.
190. The Patriot King.

Bishop Berkeley, 1684-1753.

191. Luxury the Cause of National Ruin.

Lady Mary Montagu, 1690

ESSAYISTS.

232 Lord Shaftesbury, 1671-1713. 239

188. The Deity unfolded in his Works.

Lord Bolingbroke, 1678-1751. 240

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. 225

226

228

229

230

242

243

244 | Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768. 248

196. Death of Le Fevre.

246 Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 25¶

197. The Stern Moralist.

198. A Fable.

199. France.

200. The Village Inn.

CHAPTER XVII.

HISTORICAL, MORAL, POLITICAL, AND THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OF

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

254

214. Reflections on Landing at Iona.

215. The Fate of Poverty.

216. Charles XII

Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751. 254
202. Obligation of Harmony among Chris-

tians.

Isaac Watts, 1674-1728.

201. The Earnest Student.

David Hume, 1711–1776.

3. Character of Queen Elizabeth.

204. On the Middle Station of Life.

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.

210. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield.
211. From the Preface to his Dictionary.
212. The Right Improvement of Time.
213. Dryden and Pope.

Robert Blair, 1699–1746.

226. From "The Grave."

William Robertson, 1721-1793. 258

205. Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.

206. Conception and Completion of his His-

tory.

27. Charlemagne.

208. Mahomet.

209. Invention and Use of Gunpowder.

231. Ode to Fear.

Mark Akenside, 1721-1770.

232. Genius.

Walter Scott, 1771-1832.

254. Description of Melrose Abbey.
255. Love of Country

256. Pitt and Fox.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE DAWN OF ROMANTIC POETRY.

James Thomson, 1700-1748.

227. Evening in Autumn.

228. Reflections suggested by Winter.

229. From "The Castle of Indolence."

William Shenstone, 1714-1763. 285

230. The Shepherd's Home.

William Collins, 1721-1759.

286

Thomas Gray, 1716–1771.

•

233. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.

234. On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

235. The Progress of Poesy.

255

259

William Cowper, 1731-1800.

230 Or the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.

237. Mercy to Animals.

238. Pleasures of a Winter Evening.

239. The Play-Place of Early Days.

240. The Diverting History of John Gilpin.

William Falconer, 1730-1769. 307

941 From "The Shipwreck."

357. The Parting of Douglas and Marmion.

258. The Death of Marmion.

264 Adam Smith, 1723-1790

224. On the Division of Labor.

William Paley, 1743-1805..

225. Character of Paul.

William Pitt, Earl of Chat-

ham, 1708-1778. .

217. Speech on American Affairs.
Edmund Burke, 1731-1797.

218. Sympathy a Source of the Sublime.
219. Close of his Speech to the Electors of
Bristol.

WALTER

326

295

220. Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
221. From the "Impeachment of Warren
Hastings."

222. From "A Letter to a Noble Lord'
(Duke of Bedford).

The Letters of Junius, 1769-
1772.

223. To his Grace the Duke of Bedford.

1770.

244. Resignation.

George Crabbe, 1754-1832.

245. The Dying Sailor.

246. An English Peasant.

287 Robert Burns, 1759-1796.

288

Chatterton,

247. To Mary in Heaven.

248. John Anderson.

249. Bannockburn.

CHAPTER XIX.

250. The Banks o' Doon.

251. The Cotter's Saturday Night.

282 | Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802.

307

242. Steel.

283 James Macpherson, 1738-1796. 308

243. The Songs of Selma.
Thomas

SCOTT.

259. Ellen-The Lady of the Laze.
260. Paternal Affection.

1752-

John Wolcott, 1738-1819.

252. The Razor Seller.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan,

1751-1816.

253. The Old Husband and the Young Wife.

273

272

261. Sunset and the Approach of a Storm.

262. Description of Richmond.

263. Rebecca describes the Siege to tha

wounded Ivanhoe.

277

310

311

315

322

343

CHAPTER XX.

BYRON, MOORE, SHELLEY, KEATS, AND Campbell.

281. Those Evening Bells.

282. The Turf shall be my Fragrant Shrine.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-

1821.

283. From "Ode to a Skylark

284. Returning Spring.

285. The Plain of Lombardy.

Lord Byron, 1788-1824.

164. The Eve of the Battle of Waterloo.

265. Rome.

266. The Gladiator.

287. The Ocean.

988 Modern Greece.

909. The Flight of the Giaour.

170. The Crime of the East.

1. A Ship in full Sail.

2. Remorse.

26. The Isles of Greece.

277. Armenia.

273. From "The Prisoner of Chillon."

274. Manfred's Soliloquy on the Jungfrau.

275. The Coliseum.

Thomas Moore, 1779-1852.

278. Paradise and the Peri.

279. "Tis the Last Rose of Summer.

280. Forget not the Field.

298. Milton.

299. We are Seven.

300. Criticism of Poetry.

Samuel

Taylor

1772-1834.

301. Genevieve.

302. Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of

Coleridge,

CHAPTER XXI.

WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SOUTHEY, AND OTHER MODERN

POETS.

Chamouni.

303. Kubla Khan: or, a Vision in a Dream.

304. A Calm on the Equator.

305. The Phantom Ship.

306. Truth.

307. Advantage of Method.

Robert Southey, 1774-1843.

308. The Battle of Blenheim.

309. The Evening Rainbow.

310. Lord William and Edmund.

311. From the "Life of Nelson."

Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855.

William Cowper, 1731-1800.

827. Letter to the Rev. John Newton.

328 To Lady flesket'.

339

351

368

377

387

393

312. Ginevra.

Rev. Charles Wolfe, 1791-1823. 395

813. The Burial of Sir John Moore.

James Montgomery, 1771-1854. 396

814. The I ove of Country and of Home.

B. Prayer.

Horace Walpole, 1717-1797. 411 Thomas de Quincey, 1785-

826. Letter to Sir Horace Mann.

412

357

364

400

402

403

404

405

CHAPTER XXII,

LAITER WRITERS AND MODERN ESSAYISTS, WITH PROSE WRITERS

OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

408

108

415