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
Ellwood, Milton’s friend, 175.
Elizabeth, Queen, and the English Bible, 55.
Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 100.
England at the death of Elizabeth, 1 _et seq._
Etherege, 186.
Evelyn, John, 137;
his diary, 201.
Ford, John, 91.
_Fortunes of Nigel_, Scott’s, its picture of James I., 19, 35.
Freeman, Mr., his misleading averment as to the errors in _Ivanhoe_, 20.
Fuller, Thomas, his _English Worthies_, 221.
Gay, John, 308;
his “Beggar’s Opera,” 308;
his _Trivia_, 310.
Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s time, 33, 36.
Gosson, Stephen, a representation of the Puritan feeling, 42.
Greenwich Hospital, 265.
Hampton Court Conference, 44 _et seq._
Harrison, William, 20 _et seq._
Herbert, George, the poet, 7;
poems of, 115;
his marriage, 118, 128.
Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, 7.
Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, 74, note.
Herrick, Robert, 120;
specimens of his verse, 122;
character of, 124;
his _Hesperides_, 125.
Howell, James, 107.
_Hudibras_, 193.
James I., his pedigree, 4 _et seq._;
his person and character, 6 _et seq._;
his journey to London to be crowned, 9 _et seq._;
his family, 100;
tastes and characteristics of, 101 _et seq._;
his _Counterblast to the Use of Tobacco_, 36, 104.
James II., 256.
Johnson, Hester (“Stella”), 314, 321;
Swift’s letters to, 328;
“Stella’s Journal,” 329;
her secret marriage with Swift, 335;
and Vanessa, 335;
death of, 337.
Jonson, Ben, his adulation of the King, 26;
his literary versatility, 27;
his masque at Whitehall, 29 _et seq._, 106.
_Judith Shakespeare_, William Black’s novel, 33.
Kenilworth, Walter Scott’s, 201.
Kensington in Queen Anne’s time, 308.
Kingsley’s pictures of Elizabethan characters and times, 18 _et seq._
Lamb, Charles, influence of Sir Thomas Browne upon, 224;
his essay, “The Genteel Style in Writing,” 227.
Laud, Archbishop, 134, 136.
Lily, Milton’s schoolmaster, 152, 186.
Locke, John, his treatise on the _Human Understanding_, 249;
his life, 250;
on education, 252.
“McFingal,” the, of John Trumbull, 196.
Marlborough, Duke of, 303.
Marlborough, Duchess of, 302;
her influence over Queen Anne, 304.
Marston, John, specimen of his satire, 92.
Marvell, Andrew, Milton’s assistant, 170;
story of his good fortune, 189;
his “Garden,” etc., 191.
Mary, Queen, daughter of James II., 262;
death of, 301.
Massinger’s “A New Way to Pay Old Debts,” 60, 93, 94.
Masson’s _Life and Times of Milton_, 151.
Mermaid Tavern, the, 34, 151.
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