JOHN BYROM, (p. 538.) When born? What of his early scholarship? What situation did he first fill? Who is the "Phoebe" of his pastoral? Where did he go after his marriage? What do? What change in his circumstances? What is his best piece? What else did he write? What of his "Three Black Crows?" [Commit the latter.] WILLIAM KING, (p. 541.) When did he flourish? What was his reputation? By what now most known? WILLIAM SHENSTONE, (p. 546.) When born? For what early distinguished? How has he celebrated his first teacher? Where educated? What publish? Where did he go to reside in 1745? What is said of it? When did he die? What does Campbell say of him as a writer? ROBERT DODSLEY, (p. 549.) When born? What of his early life? What was his first publication? What his next? What its success? What business did he enter into? What position did he take in it? When die? What were his writings? For what now more known? What did he do for Dr. Johnson? EDWARD YOUNG, (p. 555.) In whose reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What anecdote told of him in college? What tragedy did he publish? What of it? What did he publish in 1725? What is said of them? What was Goldsmith's criticism? What profession did he enter? Whom did he marry? Who are intended in the "Philander" and "Narcissa" of the Night Thoughts? What lines refer to Mrs. Temple's death? (note.) When were the Night Thoughts published? What is said of them? What does Johnson say? What compliment did Warton pay him? What did he publish in 1762? When die? What is said of him? What does Dr. Warton say? What of him as a poet? What of the influence of Night Thoughts? [Commit at pleasure.] WILLIAM FALCONER, (p. 562.) When born? What of his early life? What his employment? On what does his fame rest? What else did he publish? What of his death? What of the "Shipwreck """ CATHERINE TALBOT, (p. 566.) In whose reigns did she flourish? Whose daughter? What of her early years? With whom did she form an intimate friendship? What of her character? When did she die? Her chief publications? THOMAS CHATTERTON, (p. 570.) When born? Whose son? Where early educated? To whom bound an apprentice? When did he first attract attention? How? Whom did he endeavor to interest in himself and his poems? How succeed? When did he go to London? What were his prospects? How soon disappointed? When did he die? His chief poems? What does Campbell say of him? What Warton? (note.) What books to be read on the Rowleian controversy ? MARK AKENSIDE, (p. 578.) What of his rank as a poet? When born? Where? For what designed? What profes sion did he choose? Where go? What did he publish? What anecdote relating to the copyright? What of its success? What did he subsequently do? With what success? When die? What is said of the "Pleasures of the Imagination"? What is its object? How executed? What does Johnson say of it? What is said of his "revised" edition? [Commit on "Taste," &c.] THOMAS GRAY, (p. 585.) When born, and where? Where edu. cated? Where and with whom did he travel? Result? Whose fault? Where did he retire for study? What was his first production? What next? What in 1750? What of its success? What office was tendered to him? What did he publish the same year? What professorship was he called to in 1768? How discharge its duties? When did he die? What of his life? learning? Extent of his attainments? What rank as a poet? What does Mr. Matthias say of him? What of him as a man? What anecdote? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say? (note.) [Commit the "Elegy," and the "Progress of Poesy," and "Ode on the Prospect of Eton College."] What of his letters? What does Dr. Beattie say of them? TOBIAS SMOLLET, (p. 606.) Of his In whose reigns did he flourish? What of his early life? What profession did he enter? When and where die? In what character is he chiefly to be viewed? What of his reputation in this character? What as an historian? What as a poet? JOHN HAWKESWORTH, (p. 609.) What is said of his early life? His first literary effort? What did he project in 1752? How qualified? What success did it meet with? What does Drake say of him? What did he next do? What office in 1765? How did he fill it? Whose works did he publish? With what intrusted by govern ment? How executed? Why censured? When did he die? What of his character? [Commit hymn.] OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (p. 618.) reigns did he flourish? Where educated? What of his early indications? Why did he not remain the usual time at the university? What employment did he first seek? How unqualified for it? What next? What subsidiary assistance did he receive? What new project? Its success? Where did he go? What first publish? What did Pope say of it? What of his Irene ? What his situation at this time? What publish in 17447 How received? What proof of its merit? (note.) What did he issue in 1747? What in 1749? When did he publish the Rambler? What of it? When did his Dictionary appear? How long in completing it? Ancelote of Chesterfield? [Commit lines of Garrick, and Letter to Chesterfield.] What did he next publish? Why not qualified for editing Shakspeare? What in 1759? Why? What receive in 1762? When introduced to Boswell? Results? Where did he go in 1777 ? What his opinion of Ossian's Poems? What was his last labor? What is said of it? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say of it? What incidents in his life in 1781 and 1782? Give the account of his approaching dissolu tion. When die? His characteristics? What of his conversation? What other qualities and peculiarities? What of him as a Christian? Anecdote of the Earl of Eglintoune? Remark of Goldsmith? (note.) [Commit at How distinguished? When born? Where? Where educated? College habits? To what in part owing? What did his uncle intend for him? What anecdote of his habits? Where did he go in 1752? For what purрозе? How long remain? Why leave? Where did he go then? How long remain? Where travel, and how? What lines in the Traveller alluding thereto? What was his first literary engagement? What did he first publish? What next? What did he publish in 1760? What were they? (note.) What in 1766? What is said of it? What does Walter Scott say? (note.) Repeat the anecdote relating to its composition, (note.) [What did he publish in 17647 What did Johnson say of it? What in 17657 What in 1768? What two years after? What was the criticism of Johnson? What was one of his last publications? When did he die? What effect of his death on his friends? What of his merits as a writer? What does Sir Walter Scott say? What impression does Boswell's Johnson give of him? (give the account in the note in full.) What anecdote connected with the lines in the Traveller, "By sports," &c.? (note on p. 622.) What does Campbell say of two lines on p. 624? What Johnson? What of his prose? What does Headley say of it? (note.) What did John-pleasure.] son say? (note, p. 627.) [Commit at pleasure.] DAVID HUME, (p. 635.) For what celebrated? When and where born? What of his early employment? Did it agree with his taste? Where did he go for retirement to study? What did he first pubJish? How received? What next? For what is he now most known? When did he publish his History of England? What while it was in progress? When did he die? In what three characters to be viewed? What of him as an historian? As a political economist? As a philosopher? Why does he not deserve the name of a philosopher? What of his death-bed? (note.) WILLIAM PITT, (p. 639.) In whose reigns did he flourish? When did he enter parliament? When and how die? What of his public life? Why should Americans remember him with gratitude? With what sentiment had he no sympathy? What the most interesting relic we have of him? What is said of it? What does Lord Grenville say of it? SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, (p. 645.) When born? What of his education? What profession did he enter? What write? What success in his profession? Where go? What publish in 1765? Influence? What office did he hold? When die? SAMUEL JOHNSON, (p. 647.) MRS. GREVILLE, (p. 672.) What piece of hers has been much admired? ROBERT LOWTH, (p. 673.) In whose reign did he flourish? Where educated? What position in the English church did he hold? When die? What did he write? What of his Lectures on Hebrew Poetry? Remark of Gibbon? (note.) Remarks of Leigh Hunt, on the Utility of Poetry? (note.) THOMAS WARTON, (p. 680.) For what celebrated? What of his family? When born? Where educated? What did he first publish? To what professorship elected? What did he publish in 1774? What is said of it? What does Sir Egerton Brydges say of him? (note.) [Commit "The Hamlet."] WILLIAM ROBERTSON, (p. CS4.) How celebrated? When and where born? What of his early attainments? What profession did he enter? What did he first publish? What next? The merits of these works? Of what does the introduction of "Charles V." consist? What did he publish in 1777? When did he die? To what do most of his works relate? What of his style? What does Gibbon say of Robertson and Hume? (note.) EDWARD GIBBON, (p. 688.) What of his education? Of the death of his | racter of Junius," "Speech to the Electors mother? Of his first love? Of the publica of Bristol," "The Queen of France."] tion of his history? Where did he go for meditation and study? What of the completion of his history? What is said of his attack on Christianity? (note.) Who triumphantly answered it? What did Mr. Whitaker say to him? SIR WILLIAM JONES, (p. 695.) What is said of him? When born? What of his early education? What does Campbell say? What of his studies at school? To what university did he go? What did he do on leaving the university? What profession did he embrace? What was his course during our Revolutionary war? How did it af fect his prospects? To what was he appointed in 1782? When did he commence his duties? What were some of his literary labors? What effect did they have on his health? When did he die? What does Campbell say of his acquirements? How does his biographer say he always seemed to act? What were his habits of study in India? What couplets relative to division of time? [Commit "Remarks on the Bible," and the "Ode."] LETTERS OF JUNIUS, (p. 723.) What was the state of England when these letters appeared? What seemed to be the principles of George III.? Who resigned from the ministry in 1761? Who formed a new ministry? What was the next change? What editor of a paper now appeared prominent? To what post was he elected? What followed? What other administrations soon followed? What motion was made in the House of Lords in 1770? What arguments in support of the motion? What letters at this time appeared? In what printed? By whom? What interest did they excite? Why? What of the style of Junius? What power peculiarly his own? Can his style be proposed as a model? Why not? Who is now ascertained to be the author of these letters? (note, p. 726.) WILLIAM COWPER, (p. 734.) What does Southey term him? When born? What of his infancy? of his mother? To what school was he sent? Why was he disgusted with it? What profession did he study? To what office was he chosen? Did he accept it? What effect had the offer upon his mind? Where did he go in 1765 ? To what family introduced? Where afterwards go? What happened to him in 1773? Who devoted herself to him in his derange ment? What did he publish in 1782? What visitor did he receive the same year? What influence had she on him? What did she suggest to him to write? How did Mrs. Un ROBERT BURNS, (p. 700.) When born? Where? What of his early education? What was the foundation of it? For what did he early show a fondness? What fame did he early acquire? To what did it introduce him? Consequences? Where did he resolve to go? What prevented him? Result? What did an edition of his poems yield him? How expend it? Result? His habits? When did he die? What does Professor Wilson say of him? [Commit at plea-win feel towards her? Result? When was sure.] EDMUND BURKE, (p. 712.) When born, and where? Where educated? What profession did he study? To what did he devote himself? His first publication? What is said of it? What the next year? What rank did it give him? Its object? What work did he suggest to Dodsley? How honored in 1765? In what great causes did he employ his talents and learning? What are some of his writings? What calamity in 1791? When did he die? What is said of his character? What does a writer in the Edinburgh Review say? [Commit "Comparison between Burke and Johnson," "Cha the Task published? What does Hazlitt say |