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GEORGE BELL & SONS
LONDON: YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & Co. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
THE
AGE OF JOHNSON
(1748-1798)
BY
THOMAS SECCOMBE
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
First Published, December, 1899.
Reprinted, 1902.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. ESSAYISTS AND CRITICS.
Samuel Johnson-Oliver Goldsmith-Joseph Warton--
Thomas Warton--Thomas Gray-Minor Critics.
CHAPTER II. MEMOIRS AND LETTERS
Lord Chesterfield-Horace Walpole-James Boswell-
Thomas Holcroft-Samuel Burdy-Wolfe Tone-Madame
D'Arblay—Mrs. Thrale—Mrs. Trench-Thomas Twining.
CHAPTER III. POLITICAL WRITERS
Edmund Burke-Junius-Thomas Paine.
CHAPTER IV. STUDY AND RESEARCH.
I. Economists and Philosophers
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Adam Smith-David Hume - David Hartley--Erasmus
Darwin.
II. Naturalists and Geographers
98
Gilbert White-James Bruce-Arthur Young-Thomas
Pennant - John Pinkerton - John Hawkesworth-
County Historians.
III. Classical Scholars and Humanists
105
Samuel Parr-Horne Tooke-Gilbert Wakefield-
Richard Porson-- Jonathan Toup.
CHAPTER V. THE THEOLOGIANS.
William Paley-Joseph Priestley-Samuel Horsley-
Thomas Paine-Bishop Watson--Conyers Middleton-
William Warburton-Bishop Lowth-John Wesley-
Charles Wesley.
CHAPTER VI. THE HISTORIANS
Thomas Carte-George Lyttelton-David Hume-Tobias
Smollett-William Robertson-Edward Gibbon - Thomas
Somerville-Robert Watson-Robert Orme--Oliver Gold-
smith-Adam Ferguson-Minor Historians.
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CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT NOVELISTS
Samuel Richardson—Henry Fielding—Tobias Smollett-
Laurence Sterne.
CHAPTER VIII. MINOR NOVELISTS
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Fanny Burney-Henry Brooke-Henry Mackenzie-
Clara Reeve-Mrs. Radcliffe-Joseph Strutt—Thomas
Day-Hannah More.
CHAPTER IX. THE DRAMA.
Samuel Johnson-Edward Moore-John Home-Samuel
Foote-Arthur Murphy-James Townley-David Garrick
-George Colman-Hugh Kelly-Richard Cumberland-
Oliver Goldsmith-John O'Keeffe-Charles Macklin—–
Frederic Reynolds-Richard Brinsley Sheridan-Thomas
Holcroft-John Tobin-W. H. Ireland.
CHAPTER X. THE POETS.
I. The Tradition of Pope.
Poets Laureate-William Whitehead-Henry James
Pye-Samuel Johnson-Charles Churchill-John Wol-
cot-Christopher Anstey The Rolliad The Anti-
Jacobin-William Gifford - Minor Satirists-Oliver
Goldsmith-William Falconer-Richard Glover--
James Grainger-Minor Bards-Erasmus Darwin.
II. The Transition
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William Collins Thomas Gray · The Wartons
Thomas Russell-Christopher Smart-William Cowper
-James Macpherson-Thomas Chatterton-William
Blake.
III. Allan Ramsay's School
The Hamiltons-Jean Elliot-James Beattie-Alex-
ander Ross-W. J. Mickle-John Logan-Michael
Bruce-Robert Fergusson..
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