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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Britons Their Oriental Origin-Caesar's Invasion, B. c. 60- Traces
of the Celtic Speech in Britain — Analysis of English-Saxon
Tongue Disuse of Saxon Inflection - The English Th— The
English W- Pronunciation - Latin Element-Origin of English
Language-Norman Conquest-William the Conqueror -- Monas-
teries - Twelfth Century - Saxon Chronicle - Norman French -
Layamon - Thirteenth Century - Robert of Gloucester — Neolo-
gism-Fourteenth Century - Mannyng- Wickliffe and Chaucer
Gower Hermit of Hampole - Pleadings in English — Trevisa,
Translation of Higden — Mandeville — Fifteenth Century — Lydgate
- Statutes in English-Sixteenth Century - Reformation - Cheke
- Skelton-Surrey and Wyatt Berners-Ascham Spenser
Chaucerism Euphuism - Seventeenth Century - Protectorate
Gallicism Restoration Eighteenth Century Proportion of
Saxon in English.....
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CHAPTER II.
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES.
Age of Chaucer-His Birth and Education - Translation in the Four-
teenth Century-His Early Productions - His Career-Imbued
with Provençal Literature-Character of his Poems - Romaunt of
the Rose Troilus and Cresseide - Anachronism-House of Fame
Canterbury Tales - Plan of the Work-The Pilgrims - Propo-
sition of the Host - Plan of the Decameron Superiority of
Chaucer's Plan Dialogue of the Pilgrims Knight's Tale -
Squire's Tale-Story of Griselda - Comic Tales - The two Prose
Tales — Rime of Sir Thopas — Parson's Tale - Language of Chau-
The Flower and the Leaf
cer-
CHAPTER III.
SIDNEY AND SPENSER.
Elizabethan Era-Ages of Pericles, Augustus, the Medici, Louis
XIV.— Chivalry— Sidney — His Arcadia — His Style — Spenser
Shepherd's Calendar - Pastoral - Spenser at Court - Burleigh and
Leicester-Spenser's Settlement in Ireland - The Faery Queen
His Death Criticism on the Faery Queen - Style, Language, and
Versification
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CHAPTER IV.
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BACON.
His Birth and Education —View of the State of Europe - His Career
State
- Impeached for Corruption - His Death- His Character
of Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century-Its Corruptions and De-
fects Bacon's System - Not a Discoverer - The New Philosophy
Analysis of the Instauratio: I. De Augmentis; II. Novum Orga-
num; III. Sylva Sylvarum; IV. Scala Intellectûs; V. Prodromi;
VI. Philosophia Secunda - The Baconian Logic - His Style-His
Minor Works
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CHAPTER V.
ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
Comparison between the Greek and Medieval Dramas - Similarity of
their Origin Illusion in the Drama- Mysteries or Miracle Plays
- Their Subject and Construction Moralities-The Vice-In-
terludes-The Four P.'s- First Regular Dramas - - Comedies
Tragedies Early English Theatres - Scenery - Costume - State
of the Dramatic Profession......
Marlow- His Career and Works - His Faustus - His Death - Con-
temporary Judgments on his Genius - Shakspeare His Birth,
Education, and early Life — Traditions respecting him — His Mar-
riage Early Studies-Goes to London-His Career-Death and
Monument Order of his Works-Roman Plays - His Diction —
Characters......
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CHAPTER VII.
THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS.
Ben Jonson The Humours - His Roman Plays Comedies- Plots
-Beaumont and Fletcher - Massinger - Chapman - Dekker-
Webster - Middleton- Marston- Ford - Shirley.......
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GREAT DIVINES.
Theological Eloquence of England and France - The Civil War-
Persecution of the Clergy-Richard Hooker-His Life and Cha-
racter Treatise on Ecclesiastical Polity-Jeremy Taylor-Com-
pared with Hooker. His Life Liberty of Prophesying — His
The Restoration - Taylor's Sermons
other Works
Criticism
Hallam's
Taylor's digressive Style Isaac Barrow - His im-
Compared to Pascal
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His Poetical Character - Religious and Political Opinions - Repub-
licanism His Learning - Travels in Italy Prose Works
Areopagitica - Prose Style - Treatises on Divorce - His Literary
Meditations-Tractate on Education - Passion for Music-Para-
dise Lost Dante and Milton compared - Study of Romance
Campbell's Criticism - Paradise Regained- Minor Poems
son Agotes........
The Commonwealth, and the Restoration -- Milton and Butler-- Sub
ject and Nature of Hudibras - Hudibras and Don Quixote - State
of Society at the Restoration - Butler's Life - John Dryden
French Taste of the Court-Comedies and rhymed Tragedies-
Life and Works of Dryden - Dramas Annus Mirabilis - Absalom
and Achitophel-Religio Laici - Hind and Panther - Dryden's
later Works - Translation of Virgil - Odes
Clarendon's Life-
CHAPTER XI.
CLARENDON, BUNYAN, AND LOCKE.
John
Characters
History of the Rebellion
Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress - Allegory — Style — Life of
Bunyan - Locke - The New Philosophy - Practical Character of
Locke's Works - Life - Letters on Toleration - Essay on the
Human Understanding - Theory of Ideas-Treatises on Govern-
ment-Essay on Education.............
CHAPTER XII.
THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN.
Artificial School - Pope's early Studies - Pope compared to Dryden
-Essay on Criticism-Rape of the Lock-Mock-heroic Poetry -
Temple of Fame, &c. Translation of Homer-Essay on Man
Miscellanies The Dunciad Satires and Epistles
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Young - English Melancholy The Universal Passion
Thoughts-Young's Style - His Wit.......
Coarseness of Manners in the 17th and 18th Centuries- Jonathan
Swift- Battle of the Books - Tale of a Tub-Pamphlets - Stella
and Vanessa-Drapier's Letters-Voyages of Gulliver Minor
Works-Poems-Steele and Addison - Cato-Tatler-Spectator
Samuel Johnson Prose Style Satires London, and The
Vanity of Human Wishes-Rasselas - Journey to the Hebrides—
Lives of the Poets-Edition of Shakspeare- Dictionary -
and Idler
History of Prose Fiction - Spain, Italy, and France The Romance
and the Novel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe - Source of its Charm-
Defoe's Air of Reality-Minor Works - Richardson- Pamela —
Clarissa Harlowe - Female Characters-Sir Charles Grandison-
Fielding-Joseph Andrews — Jonathan Wild - Tom Jones - Ame-
lia Smollett- Roderick Random Sea Characters - Peregrine
Pickle Count Fathom-Humphry Clinker-Sterne-Tristram
Shandy, and the Sentimental Journey — Goldsmith — Chinese Let-
ters Traveller and Deserted Village Vicar of Wakefield -
Comedies- Histories.
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CHAPTER XV.
THE GREAT HISTORIANS.
David Hume As Historian As Moralist and Metaphysician
Attacks on Revealed Religion- William Robertson - Defects of
the " Classicist" Historians - Edward Gibbon The Decline and
His Prejudices against Christianity
Fall
on Gibbon
Episodes Castle of Indolence Minor Works - Lyric Poetry—
Thomas Gray-The Bard, and the Elegy - Collins and Shenstone
- The Schoolmistress Ossian Chatterton and the Rowley
William Cowper-George Crabbe - The Lowland Scots
- Dialect and Literature Robert Burns
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CHAPTER XVII.
SCOTT AND SOUTHEY.
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Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Marmion
the Lake Lord of the Isles - Waverley - Guy Mannering –
Antiquary Tales of my Landlord-Ivanhoe
Chronicles of the Canongate - Anne
Robert Southey · Thalaba and Kehama Madoc
- Legendary Tales Roderick · Prose Works and Miscellanies.. 315
Translation of Anacreon Little's Poems Political
Satires The Fudge Family - Irish Melodies - Lalla Rookh -