CHAPTER VII.

SHAKSPEARE, 1564-1616.

Shakspeare, 1564-1616. 108

C. TRAGEDIES.

A. COMEDIES.

81. Hamlet and the Ghost.

82. Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death.

72. The World a Stage.

83. Mark Antony's Oration over the dood

15 The Abuse of Authority.

Body of Casar.

14 Mercy.

8. Macbeth's Irresolution before the Murder

15 Oberon's Vision,

of Duncan.

18 The Power of Imagination.

85. Witches.

B. HISTORICAL PLAYS.

D. SONGS.

77. Lamentation of Constance.

86. Ariel's Song.

78. Clarence's Dream.

87. The Fairy to Puck.

79. Wolsey and Cromwell.

88. Sonnet XCIX.

80. Death of Queen Katharine.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS.

.

Ben Jonson, 1573–1637. 123 | Philip Massinger, 1584-1640. 129

89. From the Sad Shepherd; or, • Tale of

93. From the Virgin Martyr.

Robin Hood.

90. From Sejanus.

John Ford, 1586–1639.

130

94. From the Lover's Melancholy.

Beaumont, 1586–1615, and

John Webster. Fl. 1623. 131

Fletcher, 1576–1625. 125

95. From the Duchess of Malfy.

91. From the Faithful Shepherdess.

92. From the Two Noble Kinsmen.

James Shirley, 1594-1666. 132

96. From the Lady of Pleasure.

.

.

CHAPTER IX.

THE SO-CALLED METAPHYSICAL POETS.

George Wither, 1588-1667. 136 | Thomas Carew, 1589-1639.

97. The Stcadfast Shepherd.

104. Song

Francis Quarles, 1592-1644. 136 William Browne, 1590-1645. 143

98. O that Thou wouldst hide Me in the 105. Evening.

Grave, that Thou wouldst keep Me in

William Habington, 1605-

secret until Thy wrath be past.

George Herbert, 1593–1632. 137

1654.

143

99. Sunday.

106. Cupio Dissolvi.

Richard Crashaw, 1620-1650. 138 Edmund Waller, 1605–1687. 143

107. Song

1a, Lines on a Prayer-Book sent to Mrs. R

On a Girdle.

L. Robert Herrick, 1591-1674. 139 Sir William Davenant, 1605–

Song

To liesdows.

1668.

144

Sir John Suckling, 1609-1641. 140 108. Character of Birtha.

102 Song.

Sir John Denham, 1615-1668. 145

Sir Richard Lovelace, 1618- 309. The Thames.

1658.

141 Abrahain Cowley, 1618–1667 146

19 To Althea from Prison.

O

.

CHAPTER X.

THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THE

COMMONWEALTH.

136

158

John Hales, 1584-1656. .

148

On Content.

Against Anger,

112 Peace in the Church.

Comforting the Afflicted.

Wi. iam Chillingworth, 1602- Richard Baxter, 1615-1691.

1644

149

117. From the "Saints' Rest."

113. The Religion of Protestants,

Joseph Hall, 1574-1656.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1605– 118. The Pleasure of Study.

1682.

150

Owen Feltham. Circa 1610-

114 Thoughts on Death and Immortality,

1677.

15:)

Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661." 151 119. Sedulity and Diligence.

115. The Good Schoolmaster.

Sir Thomas Overbury, 1581-

116. Jeremy Taylor, 1613–1667. 152 1613. .

150

Marriage.

120. A Fair and Happy Milkmaid.

On Prayer.

CHAPTER XI.

.

JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674

John Milton, 1608-1674. 161 182. Adam and Eve. (Book IV.)

133. Evening in Eden. (Book IV.).

121. From the Hymn of the Nativity.

134. Morning Prayer of Adam and Eve.

122. From Comus.

(Book V.)

123. From Lycidas.

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

124. From L'Allegro.

136. Lament of Samson.

125. From Il Penseroso.

131. Sonnet on his own Blindness.

128. Exordium of Book I. Par. Lost.

138. On the late Massacre in Piedmont.

121. Satan. (Book I.)

139. Argument for the Liberty of the Preso.

128. Pandemonium. (Book I.)

129. Death and Satan. (Book II.)

Andrew Marvell, 1620-1678. 18

130. Invocation to Light. (Book III.)

140. The Nymph complaining for the Death

131. Eden. (Book IV.)

of her Fawn.

CHAPTER XII.

THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION.

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

197

Honor.

154. Civilization designed by the Creator.

Caligula's Campaign in Britain.

The Procession of the Skimmington.

155. John Bunyan, 1628-1688. 197

The Opposition in the Long Parliament.

The Valley of Humiliation.

The Golden City.

fehn Dryden, 1631-1700. 184 Edward Hyde, Earl of Ciaren.
142. London after the Fire.

don, 1608–1674.

143. On Milton.

144. Character of Shaftesbury (Achitophel), 166. Character of John Hampden.

145. Character of Zimri (Villiers, Duke of

157. Execution of Montrose,

Buckingham).

146. Veni, Crcator Spiritus.

Izaak Walton, 1593–1683. 203

147. Faith.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE SECOND REVOLUTION.

Join Locke, 1632-1704. . 207 | Robert Boyle, 1627-1691. . . 21)

161. Uses of Pleasure and Pain.

166. Practical Sufficiency of the great prid.

ciples of Morals.

162. Isaac Barrow, 1630-1677. 208

John Howe, 1630-1705.

God.

214

What is Wit ?

167. The Temple in Ruins.

John Tillotson, 1630–1694. . 210 Gilbert Burnet, 1643-1715. . 215

1.3. Happiness is Goodness,

168. Character of William III.

Robert South, 1633-1716. 211 Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. 216

164. The State of Man before the Fall.

169. Effect of an Experiment upon Light.

William Sherlock, 1678–1761. 212

165. Charity.

CHAPTER XIV.

POPE, SWIFT, AND THE POETS IN THE REIGNS OF QUEEN ANK'E.

GEORGE I., AND GEORGE II.

Alexander Pope, 1688–1744. 218 | Matthew Prior, 1664-1721. 225

170. From the “Essay on Criticism."

177. The Chameleon.

Pride.

John Gay, 1688-1732.

226

Sound an Echo to the Sense.

171. From the “ Essay on Man."

178. The Hare and many Friends.

The Scale of Being.

Omnipresence of the Deity.

Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718. 228

Address to Bolingbroke.

172. Description of Belinda.

179. Hymn to Contentment.

173. The Dying Christian to his soul.

Edward Young, 1681-1765. 229

Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.

180. Procrastination.

174. Country Hospitality.

Bishop Butler, 1692-1752.

175. The Academy of Legado.

230
176. Thoughts on Various subjects.

181. Evidence for Christianity sufficient

• 222

CHAPTER XV.

THE ESSAYISTS.

Joseph Addison, 1672-1719. 232 | Lord Shaftesbury, 1671-1713. 239

182. The Political Upholsterer.

188. The Deity unfolded in his Works.

183. The Vision of Mirza.

Lord Bolingbroke, 1678-1751 240

184. Reflections in Westminster Abbey.

185. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of

189. The Use of History.

the Soul.

190. The Patriot King.

Sir Richard Steele, 1675-1729. 237 Bishop Berkeley, 1684-1753. 242

180 The Dream.

191. Luxury the cause of National Ruin.

Sir William Temple, 1628- Lady Mary Montagu, 1690
1699.

1762.

243

18. Against Excessive Grief.

192. From her letters.

238

CHAPTER XVI.

THE GREAT NOVELISTS.

Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731. 244 | Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768. · 248
193. From "T.se Great Plague in London."

196. Death of Le Fevre.
licnry Fielding, 1707-1754: 246 Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774: 250
194. From “Tom Jones."

197. The Stern Moralist.

198. A Fable.

Tobias George Smollett, 1721-

199. France.

1771.

247

207. The Village Inn.

1* The Soldier Return.

.

.

.

CHAPTER XVII.
HISTORICAL, MORAL, POLITICAL, AND THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OT

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Isaac Watts, 1674-1728. 254

214. Reflections on Landing at Iona.

215. The Fate of Poverty.
201. The Earnest Student.

216. Charles XII

Philip Doddridge, 1702–1751. 254 William Pitt, Earl of Chat-

3. Obligation of Harmony among Chris-

ham, 1708-1778. .

279

tians.
David Hume, 1711-1776.

217. Speech on American Affairs.

255 Edmund Burke, 1731-1797. 272

913. Character of Queen Elizabeth.

204. On the Middle Station of Life.

218. Sympathy a Source of thie Sublime.

219. Close of his Speech to the Electors us

William Robertson, 1721-1793. 258

Bristol.

220. Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.

206. Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

221. From the Impeachment of Warren

Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.

Hastings."

259

222. From "A Letter to a Noble Lord"

206. Conception and Completion of his Hie-

(Duke of Bedford).

tory.
307. Charlemagne.

The Letters of Junius, 1769-

208. Mahomet.

1772.

277

209. Invention and Use of Gunpowder.

223. To his Grace the Duke of Bedford.

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. 264 Adam Smith, 1723-1790 279

210. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield.

224. On the Division of Labor.

211. From the Preface to his Dictionary. William Paley, 1743–1805. . . 280

212. The Right Improvement of Time.

213. Dryden

and Pope.

225. Character of Paul.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE DAWN OF ROMANTIC POETRY.
Robert Blair, 1699-1746. •

282 | Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802. 307

226. From “ The Grave."

242. Steel.

James Thomson, 1700-1748. 283 James Macpherson, 1738-1796. 308

227. Evening in Autumn.

243. The Songs of Selma.

228. Reflections suggested by Winter.

229. From "Tiie Castle of Indolence."

Thomas Chatterton, 1752–

William Shenstone, 1714-1763. 285 1770.

310

230. The Shepherd's Home.

244. Resignation.

William Collins, 1721-1759.

286 George Crabbe, 1754–1832. 311

231. Ode to Fear.

245. The Dying Sailor.

246. An English Peasant.

Mark Akenside, 1721-1770. 287 Robert Burns, 1759-1796. 315

232. Genius.

247. To Mary in Heaven.

Thomas Gray, 1716–1771. 288 248. John Anderson.

249. Bannockburn.

233. Eleky written in a Country Churchyard.

250. The Banks o' Doon.

234. On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

251. The Cotter's Saturday Night.

235. The Progress of Poesy.

William Cowper, 1731-1800.

John Wolcott, 1738-1819. 322

295

252. The Razor Seller.

23 01 the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.

237. Mercy to Animals.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan,

238. Pleasures of a Winter Evening.

239. The Play-Place of Early Days.

1751-1816.

343

240. The Diverting History of John Gilpin.

253. The Old Husband and the Young Wife.

William Falconer, 1730-1769. 307
W From “The Shipwreck."

CHAPTER XIX.

WALTER SCOTT.

Walter Scott, 1771-1832.

326

259. Ellen - The Lady of the Lare.

.

CHAPTER XX.

BYRON, MOORE, SHELLEY, KEATS, AND CAMPBELL.

Lord Byron, 1788–1824. 339

281. Those Evening Bells.

282. The Turf shall be my Fragrant Shrine.

164. The Eve of the Battle of Waterloo.

285. Rome.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792–

266. The Gladiator.

1821.

357

4. The Ocean.

98 Modern Greece.

283. From "Ode to a Skyları

4. The Flight of the Giaou.

284. Returning Spring.

470. The Crime of the East.

285. The Plain of Lombardy.

71. A Ship in full Sail.

John Keats, 1796–1821. . 360

• 72. Rernorse.

273. From “The Prisoner of Chillon."

286. From “ Ode to Autumn."

274. Manfred's Soliloquy on the Jungfrau.

287. From “ Hyperion."

25. The Coliseum.

288. Ode on a Grecian Urn.

76. The Isles of Greece.

289. Moonlight.

277. Armenia.

Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844. 363

Thomas Moore, 1779-1852. 351

290. Hope beyond the Grave.

278. Paradise and the Peri.

291. The Soldier's Dream.

279. "Tis the Last Rose of Summer.

232. Ye Mariners of England.

280. Forget not the Field.

293. Hohenlinden.

CHAPTER XXI.

368

400

WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SOUTHEY, AND OTHER MODERN

POETS.

William Wordsworth, 1770- | Horace Smith, 1780-1849. • 397

1850.

316. Address to a Mummy.

294. The Greek Mythology

George Canning, 1770-1827. 399

295. Tintern Abbey.

296. To a Skylark.

317. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-

Grinder

297. Portrait.

298. Milton.

John Wilson, 1785-1854.

299. We are seven.

300. Criticism of Poetry.

318. From "The City of the Plague."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1794-

1772-1834. .

377 1854.

402

801. Genevieve.

819. Zara's Ear-Rings.

302. Hynin before Sunrise in the Vale of

Robert Pollok, 1790-1827. .

Chamouni.

403

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

820. The Genius of Byron.

304. A Calm on the Equator.

305. The Phantom Ship.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans,

306. Truth.

807. Advantage of Method.

1793-1835.

404

821. The Treasures of the Deep.

Robert Southey, 1774-1843. 387

Thomas Hood, 1798-1845.

308. The Battle of Blenheim.

405

309. The Evening Rainbow.

322. The Bridge of Sighs.

310. Lord William and Edmund.

823. The Death-Bed.

811. From the Life of Nelson."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855. 393

-1861.

408

812. Ginevra

824. Cowper's Grave.

Rev. Charles Wolfe, 1791–1823. 395 Thomas Babington Macaulay,

813. The Burial of Sir John Moore.

1800-1859.

108

James Montgomery, 1771-1854. 396

825. The Battle of Ivry.

814. The Love of Country and of Bome.
B. Prayer.

.

CHAPTER XXII.

1.ZITER WRITERS AND MODERN ESSAYISTS, WITII Prose WRITERS

OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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

6. Letter to Sir Horace Mann.

1859.

411

William Cowper, 1731-1800. 412 829. Interview with a Malay.

821. Letter to the Rev. John Newton.