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INDEX.

A.

Actors and Theatres, 255-258.
Addison, Joseph, 446, 511, 512, 529, 530,531,
536, 539, 547, 598, 632; his life, 518, 519,
520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527; his
Account of the Poets, 447, 518, 519; his
Pax Europa Reddita, 520; his Muse
Anglicanæ, Letter from Italy, 521; his
Dialogues on Ancient Medals, 522; his
Campaign, Remarks on Italy, 523; his
Rosamond, 524, 529; the Tatler, 524, 525,
590, 632; the Spectator, 524, 525, 529, 538,
590, 603, 632; his Drummer, 527, 528; his
Cato, 512, 527, 575.

Elfric, 29, 30, 62; his Homilies, Colloquy,
Glossary, 29; his translation of portions
of the Bible, 30.

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 634.
Akenside, Mark, his Pleasures of Imagina-
tion, 603.

Alcuin, 24, 25.

Aldhelm, 18, 22, 23.

Alexander, William, his plays, 298.
Alfred, King, his life, 24-28, 30; his trans-
lation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 25;
of Orosius's Universal History, 25, 26; of
Boëthius's Consolation of Philosophy, 27;
his Gregory's Book on the Care of the
Soul, 27.

Alfred of Beverley, 39.
Allen, Grant, 647.

Allingham, William, 643, 645.

André, Bernard, his Life of Henry VII., 146.
Andrew of Wyntoun, 121.

Andrewes, Lancelot, his Sermons, 339, 340.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the, 20, 26, 30.
Arbuthnot, John, 531, 542, 543, 547; his Ex-
amination of Woodward's Account of the
Deluge, Law is a Bottomless Pit, Memoirs
of Scriblerus, 531.

Armstrong, John, his Art of Preserving
Health, 549.

Arnold, Matthew, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647.

Dr. Thomas, 639, 641; his History of
Rome, 639.

Arthurian Romance, 38, 40, 42-44.
Ascham, Roger, 230; his life, 208-212; his
Toxophilus, 209; his Report and Dis-
course of the Affairs and State of Ger-
many, etc., 210; his Schoolmaster, 211,
212, 213.

Ashmole, Elias, his Theatrum Chemicum
Britannicum, Fasciculus Chemicus, and
other works, 469.
Athelard of Bath, 46-48.

Atterbury, Francis, his Sermons and Dis.
courses, Miscellaneous Works, 562.
Aubrey, John, his Miscellanies, Natural
History and Antiquities of the County of
Surrey, 482.

Augustine, his De Civitate Dei, 25.
Aungervyle, Richard, 56-59; his Philobi.
blon, 56, 58, 59.

Austen, Jane, her novels, 633.
Avesbury, Robert of, his De Mirabilibus
Gestis Edwardi III., 39.
Aytoun, W. E., 643, 644.

B.

Bacon, Francis, 189, 195, 272, 275, 346, 366,
414, 456, 462, 469, 473, 477, 503; his life,
354-362; his Temporis Partus Masculus,
355; his Unity in Religion, 356, 359; his
Essayes, 357-359; his Apologie, 359; his
Proficience and Advauncement of Learn-
ing, 359, 360, 362; his Instauratio Magna,
360, 361, 362, 364; his Cogitata et Visa,
361; his Novum Organum, 361, 362, 363;
his History of the Raigne of K. Henry
VII., History of Life and Death, 362; his
Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis, Sil-
va Silvarum, Scala Intellectus, Prodromi,
Active Science, 362, 363, 364; his philoso-
phy, 364, 365.

-, Roger, his life, 48-50; his Opus Majus,
Opus Minus, Opus Tertium, 49, 50, 364.
Baillie, Joanna, her tragedies and comedies,

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Ballads, Robin Hood, 122-124.

Barbauld, Anna Letitia, her Eighteen Hun.
dred and Eleven, 614.

Barbour, John, 99, 106; his History of Scot-
tish Kings, Lives of Saints, 106; his Bruce,
106, 107.

Barclay, Alexander, his Ship of Fools, 177,
178; his other writings, 178.

-, Robert, his Truth Cleared from Calum.
nies, Apology for the True Christian Di
vinity, 498.

Baring Gould, S., 646, 648.

Barrow, Isaac, 470; his sermons and | Bodenham, John, his Politeuphuia, 222,
works, 499, 500.

Bath, Athelard of, 46; his Quæstiones
Naturales, 46, 47; his De Eodem et
Diverso, 47, 48.

Baxter, Richard, 370; his life, 492, 493, 495;
his Saints' Everlasting Rest, Call to the
Unconverted, 493; his Holy Common-
wealth, 462, 493.

Beattie, James, his Poems and Transla-
tions, Essay on Truth, Minstrel, 607.
Beaumont, Francis, 189, 276, 288, 294; his
Paraphrase of Ovid, 294; his joint plays
with Fletcher, 295-297, 401; their Knight
of the Burning Pestle, 296.
Beckford, William, his Vathek, 602.
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 631, 642; his

Bride's Tragedy and other works, 631.
Bede, 14; his life, 22-24, 26, 38, 62; his
Nature of Things, 22; his Ecclesiastical
History, 23, 25, 346.

Behn, Aphra, 426, 436, 452; her life, 428-
430; her Oroonoko, 429, 452; her Rover
and other works, 429.

Bell, Robert, 643.

Bellenden, John, his translation of Boece,
or History and Chroniklis of Scotland,
translation of Livy, Proheme of the Cos-
mographé, 147.

Benedict, his Rule of a Monastic Life, 28.
Bentham, Jeremy, his works on govern-
ment, 641.

Bentley, Richard, his Epistola ad Millium,
Epistles of Phalaris, Editions of Homer,
Phædrus, Terence, Paradise Lost, 556.
Beowulf, 11, 17, 18, 19, 21.

Berkeley, George, his New Theory of Vis-
ion, Principles of Human Knowledge,
Alciphron, 556.

Berners, Juliana, her Book of Hunting,
Art of Hawking, Laws of Arms, 121.

-, Lord, his translation of Froissart's
Chronicle, of the Golden Book of Aure-
lius, 148.

Beveridge, William, his sermons, 501.
Beverley, Alfred of, his abridgment of Geof-
frey of Monmouth's Chronicle, 39.
Bibles, English, Wiclif's, 108, 109; Cover-
dale's, 144, 145; Matthew's, 145; Crom-
well's, 145; the Great, 145; Taverner's,
145; Cranmer's, 146, 199; Geneva, 198;
Bishops', 198.

Black, William, 646, 647.
Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, 612.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, 447, 510, 512, 537;
his Prince Arthur, 510, 511, 512; his King
Arthur, Paraphrases of Portions of the
Bible, Satire on Wit, Collection of Poems,
and other works, 511.

Blackstone, Sir William, his Commentaries
on the Laws of England, 597.
Blair, Robert, his Grave, 552.
Blenerhasset, Thomas, A Mirror for Magis-
trates, 234.

Blessington, Lady, 634.

Bloomfield, Robert, his Farmer's Boy and
other poems, 630.
Boccaccio, 82, 83, 95, 447; his stanza, 78, 79;
his Teseide, 80, 95; his Filostrato, 84; his
Decameron, 92, 93, 95, 96, 102, 118, 176,
195, 212; his Falls of Illustrious Men, 87,
97, 118, 232.

223; his England's Helicon, 228.
Bodley, Sir Thomas, 339, 341.

Boece, Hector, his History of the Scots,
146, 147.

Boëthius, 27, 77; his Consolation of Philos-
ophy, 27, 77.

Boileau, his L'Art Poétique, 399, 400, 536.
Bolingbroke, Lord, 529, 544, 558, 559, 598;
his Craftsman, Parties, Human Knowl-
edge, Philosophical Writings, 559.
Boswell, James, his Life of Johnson, 593.
Bourne, Vincent, his Thyrsis et Chloe, 551.
Bowles, William Lisle, his Sonnets, 630.
Bowring, Sir Thomas, 647.
Boyle, Robert, 463, 467, 468, 484; his life,
464-466; his Seraphic Love, New Experi-
ments Physico-Mechanical, 464; his Phy-
siological Essays, Sceptical Chemist,
small treatises on Experimental Natural
Philosophy, Colors, Style of the Holy
Scriptures, Saltness of the Sea, 465; his
Excellency of Theology, Reconcilable-
ness of Reason and Religion, 465.
Bracton, Henry of, his Upon the Laws and
Customs of England, 51.

Brady, Nicholas, 453.
Bramhall, Dr., his Catching of Leviathan,

458.

Brassey, Thomas, 648.
Brome, Alexander, 322.
Bromyard, John of, his Summa Predican.
tium, 125.

Bronté, Charlotte, 635, 643; her Jane Eyre
and other novels, 635.

Brooke, Arthur, his translation of Ban-
dello's Romeo and Juliet, 195.
Brooks, Charles Shirley, 643, 644.
Broome, William, 540, 542; his translation
of Homer, Miscellaneous Poems, 540.
Brown, Thomas, his satires, plays, and
other works, 455.

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641.

Dr. Thomas, his philosophical works,
Browne, Sir Thomas, 468, 503; his Religio
Medici, 468, 470; his Pseudodoxia Epi-
demica, 468; his Hydrotaphia, Garden of
Cyrus, 469.

William, 317; his Britannia's Pasto-
rals, Shepherd's Pipe, 305.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 13, 642, 643,
644, 647; her Aurora Leigh, 648.

Robert, 642, 643, 645, 646, 647; his Sor-
dello, 648.

Brunne, Robert of, 64, 65; his Handlynge
Sinne, 65, 67; his translation of Langtoft's
Chronicle, 65.

Brunton, Mary, her novels, 634.
Buchanan, George, 146, 337; his life, 191-

194; his Latin satires and tragedies and
translations, Paraphrasis Psalmorum Da.
vidis poetica, 192; his Rerum Scoticarum
Historia, 193, 194.

-, Robert, 646, 647.
Buckingham, Duke of, see Villiers, George.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 644.

Bulwer, Lord Lytton, see Lytton, Lord.
Bunyan, John, his life, 489, 490, 495, 497;
his Divine Emblems, 491; his Pilgrim's
Progress, 491, 492; his Holy City, Justifi.
cation by Faith, 491; his Holy War, 492.

Burgh, Benedict, his translation of Cato's | Cayley, C. B., 647.
Morals, Version of De Regimine Princi- Celts, 7, 8, 9-12.
pum, 121.

Burke, Edmund, 116; his life, 597-601, 626;
his Vindication of Natural Society, Sub-
lime and Beautiful, the Annual Register,
598; his pamphlets and speeches, 599,
600; his Revolution in France, 600.
Burnet, George, 625.

Gilbert, his Memoirs of the Dukes
of Hamilton, 483; his History of the
Reformation of the Church of England,
465, 466, 483; his Letters to Robert Boyle,
Life of William Bedell, History of His
Own Time, 484.

Thomas, his Telluris Theoria Sacra,
Archæologia Philosophica, 555.
Burney, Frances, Madame D'Arblay, her
Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, 602.
Burns, Robert, 13; his life, 610-613; his
Holy Fair, Twa Herds, Holy Willie's
Prayer, Halloween, Cotter's Saturday
Night, 611; his To a Mountain Daisy, To
a Mouse, 611; his Poems, Tam o'Shanter,
612, 613.

Burton, John Hill, 645.

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Centlivre, Susanna, 531; her Busy-Body
and other plays, 532.
Chalmers, Thomas, his Astronomical Dis
courses, 641.

Chambers, Robert, 643, 644.
William, 646.

Chapman, George, 189, 272, 276, 291, 297,
317; his Shadow of Night, Ovid's Banquet
of Sence, 318; his Homer's Iliad and
Odyssey, 318, 319; his comedies and trage-
dies, 318; his Homeric Hymns, and Bat
tle of Frogs and Mice, 319.
Chatterton, Thomas, his poems, 606, 607.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 2, 13, 33, 56, 60, 65, 69,
71, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 107, 110, 113, 115,
117, 118, 120, 122, 143, 159, 160, 161, 169,
244, 277, 396, 407, 536, his life, 75-92; his
Romaunt of the Rose, 77, 107; his Trans-
lation of Boëthius, 77; his Court of Love,
76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 107; Chaucer's stanza,
78, 79, 80, 118, 119, 120, 122, 147, 153, 155,
160, 165, 168, 177, 178, 231, 233, 234, 242,
253, 254, 265, 278, 338; his Assembly of
Foules, 79, 80, 82; his Complaint of the
Black Knight, 80, 82, 244; Chaucer's
Dream, 81, 82; his Book of the Duchess,
82; his Troilus and Cressida, 84, 85, 102,
122; his House of Fame, 85-87, 178; his
Legend of Good Women, 87; bis Flower
and Leaf, 88, 89; his Cuckoo and Night-
ingale, 89; his Bread and Milk for Babes,
90, 91; his Testament of Love, 91, 103;
his Canterbury Tales, 76, 91-98, 102, 118,
447, 536; his so-called spurious writings,
98; his contemporaries, 100-110.
Cheke, Sir John, his life, 190, 191, 210; his
De Pronuntiatione Linguæ Græcæ,
Remedy for Sedition, 190.

Chesterfield, Earl of, his Letters to his Son,
591.

Cadmon, 18, 33; his life, 13-15, 22; his Par. Chestre, Thomas, his version of the Lay of
aphrase, 15-17, 19,21.
Caird, Edward, 647.

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Thomas, 320, 322, 323.
Carlyle, Thomas, 638, 642, 643, 644, 645, 649;
his Sartor Resartus, French Revolution,
Frederick the Great and other works,
638.

Carter, Elizabeth, 614.

Cartwright, William, 320; his lyrics and
plays, 323.

Cavendish, George, his Life of Wolsey, 223.
Caxton, William, 115, 116, 122, 125, 128, 129,
151, 152; his translation of Histories of
Troy, of the Game and Play of the Chess,
128.

Sir Launfal, 121.

Chettle, Henry, 267, 268; his Kind Heart's
Dream, 268.

Cheynell, Francis, his Chillingworthi No-
vissima, 375.

Child, Sir Josiah, his New Discourse of
Trade, 471.

Chillingworth, William, his Religion of the
Protestants, etc., 374, 375.
Chrestien of Troyes, 43, 44.
Chronicle, the Anglo-Saxon, 20, 26, 30.
Chronicles, Latin and French, 35-40.
Churchill, Charles, 607, 608; his Rosciad,
Ghost, Prophecy of Famine, 607.
Churchyard, Thomas, his Jane Shore, 234,
235; his Wolsey and numerous poems,
235, 236.

Cibber, Colley, 533, 534, 541, 542, 543; his

Love's Last Shift, Careless Husband, and
other plays, 534; his Non-juror, 534, 541.
Clarendon, Lord, see Hyde, Edward.
Clarke, Samuel, his writings on theology,
mathematics, natural philosophy, 562.
Cleveland, John, 320, 322.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 646.
Cobbett, William, his journalistic writings
Colenso, John William, 644.
Coleridge, Hartley, his Poems, 631.

636.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 620, 621, 625, 626;
his life, 623, 624; his Songs of the Pixies,
Watchman, 623; his Ancient Mariner,
Christabel, Remorse, Friend, translation
of Wallenstein, and other works, 624.
Colet, John, 133, 134, 136.
Collier, Jeremy, 447, 448, 487, 512; his Im-
morality and Profaneness of the Stage,
Essays on Moral Subjects, 487; his Eccle-
siastical History of Great Britain, trans-
lation of Moreri's Dictionary, 488.

-, John Payne, his writings concerning
Shakespeare, 640.

Collins, Wilkie, 642, 643, 644, 645.

-, William, his Persian Eclogues, Odes,
553.

Colman, George, 608.

Congreve, William, 446, 450, 488, 512, 519;
his Incognita, Old Bachelor, Double
Dealer, 450; his Love for Love, Mourn-
ing Bride, and other works, 451.
Constable, Henry, his Diana, Spiritual Son.
nets, 249.

Corbet, Richard, 320; his Poetica Stromata,

322.

Coryat, Thomas, his Crudities, Crambe,
313.

Cotton, Charles, his translations from Cor.
neille and Montaigne, 472; his Second
Part of the Complete Angler, 473.

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Robert Bruce, 338, 339, 342, 348.
Coverdale, Miles, his Bible, 144, 145.
Cowley, Abraham, 324, 325, 405, 408, 422,
430, 467; his life, 402-404; his love-poems,
plays and other works, 402, 403; his
Plantarum, Libri vi., translations, 403,
404; his Essays in Verse and Prose, 404,
405.

—, Hannah, her Maid of Arragon, and
comedies, 614.

Cowper, William, 116, 328; his life, 608-
610; the Olney Hymns, 609; his Progress
of Error, Truth, Table-Talk, 609; his
Expostulation, Hope, Charity, Conversa-
tion, Task, translation of Homer, 610.
Crabbe, George, his Library, 626; his Vil-
lage, Newspaper, Parish Register, Tales
of the Hall, 627.

Craik, George Lillie, 640, 643; his Pursuit
of Knowledge under Difficulties and
other works, 640.

Cranmer, Archbishop, his Bible, 145, 146.
Crashaw, Richard, his Steps to the Temple,
Delights of the Muses, 316, 317.
Creech, Thomas, 444; his translations from
Lucretius and Horace, 454.
Croft, Dr., his Naked Truth, 412.
Cromwell, Thomas, his Bible, 145.
Crowne, John, his Juliana, City Politics,
Calisto, Destruction of Jerusalem, and
other works, 425, 426.

Cudworth, Ralph, 369, 475; his True Intel-
lectual System of the Universe, 473.
Cumberland, Richard, 608.

Cynewulf, 19; his Elene, 19, 20; his Juli-
ana, Christ, 19.

Danes, 8.

D.

tion of Paulus Jovius, Delia, 302; his First
Fowre Books of the Civille Warres, 302;
his other works, 303, 304.
D'Arblay, Madame, see Burney, Frances.
Darwin, Charles, 644, 646.

Erasmus, his Botanical Garden, 613.
Davenant, Sir William, 301, 391, 419, 420,
434, 435; his life, 413-418; his masques
and plays, 413; his Gondibert, 413-416,
431; his Siege of Rhodes, 416-418.
Davies, Sir John, 272, 320; his Orchestra,
250, 251; his Nosce Teipsum, 250, 251,
414.

Davison, Francis, his Poetical Rhapsody,

228.

Davy, Sir Humphry, 641.

Defoe, Daniel, 563, 632; his life, 563-570;
his Robinson Crusoe, 517, 568, 569; his
Review, 524, 567; his Tracts, 564, 567,
568; his Essay on Projects, 564; his True-
born Englishman, 564, 565; his Shortest
Way with the Dissenters, 565, 566; his
Hymn to the Pillory, 566; his Jure Divi-
no, History of the Union between Eng.
land and Scotland, 567 his Captain Single-
ton, and other novels, 569, 570.

Dekker, Thomas, 272, 276, 287, 288, 291;
his Satiromastix, 287, 291; his plays, 297.
Denham, Sir John, 320, 519; his Essay on
Gaming, Sophy, Cooper's Hill, Cato Ma-
jor, 323; his translation of Virgil's Æneid,
323.

Dennis, John, 511-513, 537, 538; his Passion
of Byblis, Impartial Critic, Miscellaneous
Poems, plays and other works, 511, 512,

513.

De Quincey, Thomas, 629; his Confessions
of an Opium-Eater and other works, 637.
De Vere, Aubrey, 647.
Dibdin, Charles, 614.

Thomas, 614.

Thomas Frognall, his Bibliomania and
other works, 640.

Dickens, Charles, 635, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646,
649; his Pickwick Papers and other nov-
els, 635.

Digby, Sir Kenelm, his Treatises on the
Nature of Bodies and of Man's Soul, Ob.
servations on Browne's Religio Medici,
469, 470.

Dilke, Sir C. W., 647.

Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon,
421, 444, 519; his translations from Hor-
ace, Virgil, and Guarini, Essay on Trans-
lated Verse, 421.

Diodati, Charles, 326, 334, 335.
Disraeli, Benjamin, 635, 643; his Vivian
Grey and other novels, 635.

-, Isaac, his Curiosities of Literature and
other works, 640.

Dixon, W. Hepworth, 643, 645, 646.
Dobell, Sydney, 642, 643.
Dobson, Austin, 647.

Donne, John, his life, 310-312; his Pseudo-
Martyr, Elegy on the Death of Prince
Henry, Devotions upon Emergent Occa-
sions, 311; his Anatomy of the World, 312.
Doran, John, 643, 645.

Dorset, Earl of, see Sackville, Charles.
Douglas, Gavin, 151, 177; his life, 162, 163;
his version of the Eneid, 163, 164; his
Palace of Honor, King Hart, 163.

Daniel, Samuel, 189, 272, 276; his transla. Dowden, Edward, 647, 648.

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