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CHAPTER VIII.
SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: POETS, WITS, AND
DRAMATISTS.
1. John Milton; his Life and Writings from the Year 1650. —-2.
Beginning of the Era of French Literary Influence in Eng-
land.-3. The New Criticism; Thomas Rymer. -4. Edmund
Waller. - 5. Abraham Cowley; Henry Vaughan.-6. Samuel
Butler.-7. Andrew Marvel.-8. Sir William Davenant. —9.
Dryden's Earlier Contemporaries.-10. Thomas Killigrew; Sir
Charles Sedley.—11. Buckingham.—12. Dorset; Rochester.
-13. Roscommon.-14. Mulgrave. 15. Thomas D'Urfey. -
16. Sir George Etherege.-17. Samuel Pordage. - 18. Thomas
Shadwell.-19. Elkanah Settle.-20. John Crowne.-21. Na-
thaniel Lee.-22. Thomas Otway.-23. Aphra Behn. — 24.
Catherine Philips.-25. John Dryden's Life and Writings.
26. Dryden's Later Contemporaries; William Wycherley.
27. William Congreve.—28. John Vanbrugh.-29. George Far-
quhar.-30. Thomas Southern.-31. John Oldham. -32.
Nahum Tate. - 33. George Stepney. - 34. Thomas Creech;
Richard Duke. -35. Samuel Garth. - 36. John Pomfret; Wil-
liam Walsh; William King; Thomas Brown; George Gran-
ville
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CHAPTER IX.
SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: SCHOLARS, PHI-
LOSOPHERS, AND MEN OF SCIENCE.
1. Thomas Hobbes.
- 2. James Harrington.-3. Eager Spirit of
Inquiry.-4. Group of Men of Science.-5. Robert Boyle.
-6. Robert Hooke.-7. John Ray.-8. Thomas Sprat.-9.
Thomas Sydenham. — 10. Sir Thomas Browne. — 11. Elias Ash-
mole.-12. Sir Kenelm Digby. -13. Sir Isaac Newton. - 14.
Writers on Political Science; Thomas Mun; Sir Josiah Child;
Sir William Petty.-15. Algernon Sidney. — 16. Izaak Walton.
-17. Ralph Cudworth.-18. John Locke
CHAPTER X.
456
SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: HISTORIANS, BIOG-
RAPHERS, DIARISTS, AND ESSAYISTS.
-4.
1. Lord Clarendon.-2. Samuel Pepys.-3. John Aubrey.
Anthony à Wood.-5. Gilbert Burnet.-6. Roger North. - 7.
John Strype.-S. Humphrey Prideaux.-9. John Evelyn. -
10. Sir William Temple.-11. Marchamont Needham; Roger
L'Estrange.-12. Jeremy Collier.-13. Gerard Langbaine
CHAPTER XI.
481
SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: THEOLOGICAL AND
RELIGIOUS WRITERS.
1. John Bunyan. -2. Richard Baxter.—3. John Howe.-4. George
Fox. 5. Robert Barclay. -6. William Penn.-7. Sir George
Mackenzie.-8. Isaac Barrow.-9. John Tillotson.-10. Rob-
ert Leighton.-11. William Beveridge.-12. Samuel Parker.
-13. Thomas Ken; George Morley.-14. William Sherlock.
-15. Robert South; Edward Stillingfleet; Thomas Tenison . 489
CHAPTER XII.
FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: POETRY, THE DRAMA,
AND CRITICISM.
1. "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse."-2. Charles Mon-
tague.-3. Matthew Prior. -4. Sir Richard Blackmore.-5.
-John Dennis; Charles Gildon; Joseph Spence.-6. Jona-
than Swift.-7. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.-8. John
Philips.-9. Ambrose Philips.-10. Thomas Tickell.-11.
Nicholas Rowe.-12. Susanna Centlivre.-13. John Hughes.
-14. John Arbuthnot.-15. Thomas Parnell.-16. Lewis
Theobald; Colley Cibber.-17. John Gay.-18. Alexander
Pope.-19. Matthew Green. -20. Allan Ramsay.-21. James
Thomson.-22. John Dyer; William Somerville.-23. Gilbert
West; John Armstrong.-24. William Shenstone. - 25. George
Lillo; Edward Moore; David Mallet; Vincent Bourne; William
Whitehead; Paul Whitehead; Richard Glover; Christopher
Pitt; Stephen Duck.-26. Edward Young; Robert Blair.-27.
William Collins.-28. Richard Savage
FIRST HALF OF THE
CHAPTER XIII.
507
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: SCIENCE, PHILOSO-
PHY, AND RELIGION.
1. Thomas Burnet. —2. William Whiston.—3. Richard Bentley. —
4. George Berkeley. —5. David Hartley. —6. Bernard de Man-
deville.-7. Henry St. John.-8. Isaac Watts.-9. Joseph
Butler.-10. John Wesley; Charles Wesley.-11. William
Warburton. — 12. Francis Atterbury; Samuel Clarke; Benja-
min Hoadly.
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CHAPTER XIV.
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: HISTORIANS, PAM-
PHLETEERS, AND NOVELISTS.
1. John Oldmixon. -2. George Lyttelton.-3. Daniel Defoe. —4.
Samuel Richardson.-5. Henry Fielding.
CHAPTER XV.
SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:
563
HISTORIANS, BIOG-
RAPHERS, ESSAYISTS, NOVELISTS, AND PHILOSOPHERS.
1. Tobias Smollett.-2. Laurence Sterne. -3. Joseph Warton;
Thomas Warton. -4. Richard Hurd.-5. Horace Walpole;
Lady Mary Montague.-6. Samuel Johnson. -7. David
Hume.-8. William Robertson; Edward Gibbon.-9. Thomas
Reid. 10. Adam Smith; Sir William Blackstone.-11. Ed-
mund Burke.-12. William Paley.-13. Joseph Priestley;
Thomas Paine; Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.-14. Sir
Joshua Reynolds; Gilbert White; Edmund Malone; Anna
Seward; Hannah More; Henry Mackenzie; Frances Burney;
Sophia and Harriet Lee; William Beckford; Clara Reeve;
Ann Radcliffe
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CHAPTER XVI.
SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: POETS AND DRAMA-
TISTS.
1. Mark Akenside. -2. Thomas Gray.-3. Oliver Goldsmith;
Thomas Chatterton; Charles Churchill. -4. James Grainger;
William Falconer; James Beattie; James Macpherson; Thomas
Percy.-5. Samuel Foote; David Garrick; Richard Cumber-
land; John Home; Richard Brinsley Sheridan.-6. William
Cowper.-7. Robert Burns.-S. Erasmus Darwin; Elizabeth
Carter; John Wolcot; Anna Lætitia Barbauld; Henry James
Pye; James Grahame. - 9. Elizabeth Inchbald; Hannah
Cowley; Charles and Thomas Dibdin
CHAPTER XVII.
FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: POETS.
1. William Wordsworth.-2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 3. Robert
Southey.-4. Sir Walter Scott. - 5. George Crabbe.-6. Sam-
603
uel Rogers.-7. Thomas Campbell.-8. Walter Savage Landor.
-9. Thomas Moore.-10. Lord Byron. 11. Percy Bysshe
Shelley.-12. John Keats.-13. Robert Bloomfield; William L.
Bowles; Mary Tighe; James Montgomery; Robert Montgomery;
Henry Kirke White; Reginald Heber; Felicia Hemans; James
Hogg; T. L. Beddoes; John Keble; Ebenezer Elliott; Hartley
Coleridge; Arthur Henry Hallam; Letitia Elizabeth Landon. 617
CHAPTER XVIII.
FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: NOVELISTS AND DRAMA-
1. Sir Walter Scott.-2. Prominence of the Novel as a Form of
Literature.—3. William Godwin; Maria Edgeworth; Mat-
thew Gregory Lewis; Amelia Opie; Jane Austen; Jane Porter;
Anna Maria Porter; Barbara Hofland; Mary Brunton. - 4.
Mrs. Shelley; James Morier; Thomas Hope; Robert P. Ward;
Theodore Hook; Thomas H. Lister; Lady Blessington; Mrs.
Trollope; Mary Russell Mitford; G. P. R. James; John Galt;
William H. Ainsworth.-5. Dramatists: Joanna Baillie; Sir
Thomas Noon Talfourd; James Sheridan Knowles.-6. Six
Greatest Novelists between 1830 and 1850: Captain Marryat;
Lord Lytton; Lord Beaconsfield; Charlotte Bronté; Charles
Dickens; William Makepeace Thackeray.
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CHAPTER XIX.
FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ESSAYISTS, SATIRISTS,
HISTORIANS, AND BIOGRAPHERS.
1. William Gifford.-2. William Cobbett.-3. Leigh Hunt. -4.
Charles Lamb.-5. William Hazlitt.-6. Sydney Smith.
7. John Wilson.-8. Thomas De Quincey.-9. James and
Horace Smith.-10. Lord Jeffrey; Lord Brougham; Lord Ma-
caulay.-11. John Foster.-12. Thomas Hood.-13. Douglas
Jerrold. 14. Thomas Carlyle. - 15. Historians: Henry Hart
Milman; James Mill; William Mitford; Connop Thirlwall;
John Lingard; Patrick Fraser Tytler; Henry Hallam; George
Grote; Thomas Arnold; Earl Stanhope; Sir William Napier;
Sharon Turner; Lord Macaulay. — 16. Biographers: John
Gibson Lockhart; William Roscoe; Nathan Drake,
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CHAPTER XX.
FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: SCHOLARS, PHILOSO-
PHERS, THEOLOGIANS, AND MEN OF SCIENCE.
1. Scholars: Richard Porson; Isaac Disraeli; Thomas F. Dibdin;
George L. Craik; John Payne Collier. -2. Philosophers:
Dugald Stewart; Thomas Brown; Sir James Mackintosh; Sir
William Hamilton; Richard Whately.-3. Theologians: Rob-
ert Hall; Thomas Chalmers; Augustus William Hare; Julius
Charles Hare; Edward B. Pusey; John Keble; John Henry
Newman; Thomas Arnold; Frederick D. Maurice; Frederick
W. Robertson. -4. Men of Political Science: Jeremy Bentham;
T. R. Malthus; David Ricardo; Nassau W. Senior.-5. Men
of Physical Science: Sir William Herschel; Sir Humphry Davy;
Michael Faraday; Mary Somerville; Sir Charles Lyell; Hugh
Miller
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