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GEORGE BELL & SONS
LONDON: YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & Co. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
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THE
AGE OF JOHNSON
(1748-1798)
BY
THOMAS SECCOMBE
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1902
HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
42*28
First Published, December, 1899.
Reprinted, 1902.
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS.
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
Adam Smith - David Hume-David Hartley--Erasmus
Darwin.
II. Naturalists and Geographers
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Gilbert White-James Bruce-Arthur Young-Thomas
Pennant John Pinkerton-John Hawkesworth-
County Historians.
III. Classical Scholars and Humanists
Samuel Parr Horne Tooke Gilbert Wakefield-
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Richard Porson-- Jonathan Toup.
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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
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
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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