English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to AnneMitchell, Donald Grant
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English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne
Mitchell, Donald Grant
English literature -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Intellectual life
Addison, Joseph, 259, 280;
early life of, 288 _et seq._;
his “Cato,” 289;
_The Spectator_, 290;
“Sir Roger De Coverley,” 291;
Swift’s opinion of the _Spectator_, 292;
his marriage, 294;
“The Vision of Mirza,” 295;
his political life, 297;
his death, 298.
Anne, Princess, daughter of James II., 262;
Queen, 267;
her characteristics, 278;
her accession to the throne, 302.
Aubrey, 94, 141.
Baxter, Richard, his _Saints’ Rest_, 187.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 38, 93;
a quotation from “Philaster,” 97;
“The Faithful Shepherdess,” 98.
Bible, King James’, 44 _et seq._;
dedication of, 45;
the revisers of, 47 _et seq._;
its literary value, 51 _et seq._;
early English, 54;
the Genevan, 55;
the Bishops’, 55;
the first American, 56.
Blackfriars Theatre, 34.
Blenheim Palace, 305.
Bodley, John, 55.
Boyle, Robert, 207.
Boyne, battle of the, 264.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 222.
Buchanan, George, 7.
Buckingham, Duke of, and Charles I., 133;
his son, author of “The Rehearsal,” 134.
Buckingham, the Second Villiers, 184.
Bunyan, John, 209;
his birthplace, 210;
his early life and marriage, 211;
a preacher, 212;
imprisoned, 213;
his _Pilgrim’s Progress_, 215.
Burnet’s _History of his Own Times_, 202, 258.
Burton, Robert, author of _Anatomy of Melancholy_, 144.
Busino, his account of the representation of Jonson’s “Pleasure is
Reconciled to Virtue,” at Whitehall, 29 _et seq._
Butler, Samuel, author of _Hudibras_, 193.
Cary, Sir Robert, carries to Edinburgh the news of the Queen’s death, 8.
Charlecote House, 66.
Charles I., 105, 132;
influence of the Duke of Buckingham on, 133;
execution of, 162 _et seq._
Charles II., restoration of, 182;
death of, 255.
Charter House, the, 11.
Clarendon, Earl of, his _History of the Rebellion_, 201.
Compton, Lord, 24.
Congreve, William, 269;
visited by Voltaire, 270.
_Counterblast to Tobacco_, the, of James I., 7, 104.
Cowley, Abraham, 145;
an extract from his “Hymn to Light,” 146;
compared with Tennyson, 147.
Cromwell, 163.
Davies, Sir John, his lines on the _Immortality of the Soul_, 49.
Defoe, Daniel, 258, 272;
a pamphleteer, 273;
his _Advice to English Tradesmen_, 274;
his _Robinson Crusoe_, 276;
on the Commission in Edinburgh, 277.
Diodati, Charles, the friend of Milton, 156.
Donne, John, 49, note.
Dorset, 186.
Doxology, of the Lord’s Prayer, the, 52.
Drummond of Hawthornden, 28;
entertains Jonson, 28 _et seq._
Dryden, John, 227;
his fertility, 228;
his eulogies of Cromwell and Charles II., 230 _et seq._;
Mr. Saintsbury’s opinion of his consistency, 232;
his _Annus Mirabilis_, 233;
the London of, 234;
his plays, 238;
his _Hind and Panther_, 241;
his Virgil, 243;
his “All for Love,” 244;
estimate of him, 246, 259, 261.
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