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CHAPTER IV.
THE ELIZABETHAN POETS (INCLUDING THE REIGN OF JAMES I.)
36. George Gascoigne, 1530-1577.
The Vanity of the Beautiful . 41
37. Thomas Sackville, Lord Buck-
hurst. Allegorical Personages
in Hell
38. Edmund Spenser, 1553-1559.
Daniel, 1562
Richard II. on the Morning
before his Murder..
48. Michael Drayton, 1563-1631-
Queen Mab's Chariot
Pigwiggen Arming
49. From the Poly-olbion
Page
1619.
53
54
55
61
CHAPTER V.
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY AND PROSE LITERATURE IN THE REIGNS OF ELIZABETH
56. Sir Philip Sydney, 1554-1586.
In Praise of Poetry
57. Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618.
The Folly of Ambition and
Power of Death
65. Robert Burton, 1576-1640.
Philautia, or Self-Love, a Cause
of Melancholy
58. Richard Hooker, 1553 1598.
The Necessity and Majesty of
67. Lord Herbert of Cherbury,
1581-1648..
Law
59. Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. Of
68. Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679.
Pity and Indignation
75
Studies
64
Emulation and Envy
76
61. Of Cunning..
62. Of Discourse
63. Of Beauty
98
99
CHAPTER IX.
117. William Chillingworth, 1602- 1644. The Religion of Pro- testants
105. Robert
Song To Meadows 106. Sir John Suckling, 1609-1641. .. 123
Song
THE SO-CALLED METAPHYSICAL POETS.
120
122 122
130
87. Juliet's Soliloquy before taking
the potion
131
88. Clown's Song
89. Ariel's Song
CHAPTER X.
THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THE COMMONWEALTH.
116. John Hales, 1584-1656. Peace
in the Church
132
D. SONGS.
90. The Fairy to Puck
91. Sonnet XCIX.
133
134
137
From the Faithful Shepherdess 106
96. From the Two Noble Kinsmen 108
97. Philip Massinger, 1584-1640.. 110
98. John Ford, 1586 1639
99. John Webster, fl. 1623
100. James Shirley, 1594-1666
.. 111
..112
114
..
100
107. Sir Richard Lovelace, 1618-1658.
To Althea from Prison
108. Thomas Carew, 1589-1639.
109. William Browne, 1590-1645.
Evening..
125
110. William Habington, 1605-1654. 125
111 Edmund Waller, 1605-1687.
On a Girdle
112. Sir William Davenant, 1605-
1668. Character of Birtha .. 127
113. Sir John Denham, 1615-1668.
The Thames
114. Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667.
Hymn to Light
115. Character of Cromwell ..
127
128
129
On Prayer
On Content
Against Anger
Comforting the Afflicted
121. Richard Baxter, 1615-1691.
From the Saints' Rest'
122. Joseph Hall, 1574-1656. The
Pleasure of Study..
123. Owen Feltham, circa 1610-1677.
Sedulity and Diligence
124. Sir Thomas Overbury, 1581-
1613. A Fair and Happy
Milkmaid
101
102
123
124
126
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
CHAPTER XV.
POPE, SWIFT, AND THE POETS IN THE REIGNS OF QUEEN ANNE, GEORGE I.,
AND GEORGE II.
174. Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
From the Essay on Criticism' 209
Sound an Echo to the Sense 210
175. From the Essay on Man'
.. 210
Omnipresence of the Deity
.. 211
Address to Bolingbroke
176. From the Rape of the Lock'
Description of Belinda
177. The Dying Christian to his
Soul..
211
212
213
178. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE ESSAYISTS.
196. Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731. From
'The Great Plague in London' 241
197. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.
FromTom Jones'
198. Tobias George Smollett, 1721-
1771. The Soldier's Re-
turn
. 244
225
227
230
231
CHAPTER XVII.
THE GREAT NOVELISTS.
204. David Hume, 1711-1776. Cha-
aracter of Queen Elizabeth 255
205. On the Middle Station of Life 256
206. William Robertson, 1721-1793.
Execution of Mary, Queen of
Scots
258
207. Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.
From his Autobiography
261
208. The Schools of Athens ..
.. 261
209. Charlemagne
263
210. Mahomet
265
211. Invention and Use of Gun-
powder
267
243
Country Hospitality
214
179. The Spider and the Bee..
.. 215
180. Thoughts on Various Subjects 218
181. Matthew Prior, 1664-1721.
The Cameleon
182. John Gay, 1688-1732. The
Hare and many Friends
183. Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718.
Hymn to Contentment
184. Edward Young, 1681-1765.
218
Procrastination
The Deity unfolded in his
Works
192. Lord Bolingbroke, 1678-1751.
The Use of History
193. The Patriot King
194. Bishop Berkeley, 1684-1753.
Luxury the Cause of National
Ruin
195. Lady Mary Montagu, 1690-
1762. From her Letters
219
221
223
CHAPTER XVIII
HISTORICAL, MORAL, POLITICAL, AND THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY.
234
236
238
200. Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774. The Disabled Soldier 201. A Fable 202. From the Traveller' 203. From The Deserted Village'. 254
248 252
253
239
246
268
212. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.-
Letter to the Earl of Chester-
field
213. From the Preface to his Dic-
tionary
214. From the
215. From the Lives of the Poets' 272
216. From the Journey to the
Hebrides'
217. From London
Rambler
269
270
218. From the Vanity of Human
Wishes'
219. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham,
274
275