Milton, John, 150; Masson’s Life of, 151; his father, 151; at school, 152; his early verse, 153 _et seq._; at Cambridge, 153; his travels, 156; his marriage to Mary Powell, 157; his daughters, 160; his first published poems, 160; his pamphlets, 161; his defence of regicide, 164; in peril, 167; domestic life, 169; Munkacsy’s picture of, 169; his third marriage, 171; _The Paradise Lost_, 171; his use of other books, 173; his last days, 174; payments for his _Paradise_, 176; deserted by his daughters, 177; _Paradise Regained_ and _Samson Agonistes_, 177, 188; his death, 179. _Mortality, Old_, Scott’s novel, 264. Newton, Isaac, 207, 258. “New Way to Pay Old Debts, A,” 60, 94. _Nigel_, Scott’s novel, 19, 35. _Old Mortality_, Scott’s novel, 324. Otway, Thomas, 237. Overbury, Sir Thomas, 114, his _Characters_. “Overreach, Sir Giles,” 60, 94. Penn, William, 258. Pepys, Mr., his purchase of _Hudibras_, 194, 198; his diary, 199; extracts from, 202. _Peveril of the Peak_, Scott’s, 184. Primer, the Old New England, 54. Prior, Matthew, 258, 268. Prynne, William, 142; his _Histriomastix_, 143. Raleigh, Walter, 11 _et seq._; in the Tower, 13; his _History of the World_, 13; his expedition to Guiana, 13; executed, 15; specimens of his writings, 15 _et seq._; his _Ocean to Cynthia_, 17, note; his life an epitome of Elizabethan times, 18. Rochester, Earl of, 185. Selden, John, his _Table-Talk_, 129. Shakespeare, 32 _et seq._; 56 _et seq._; his characters real, 58; his personality, 61; his family relations, 67; his children, 68, 84; in London, 73 _et seq._; early poetry, 75; “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” 76, 77; his “Venus and Adonis,” and “Lucrece,” 77; like Chaucer in taking his material, 79; his closing years, 81 _et seq._; his son-in-law, Dr. Hall, 83. Sheridan, Thomas, 337. Sidney, Lady Dorothy, pursued by Waller, 149. Southampton, Earl of, 74. Spencer, Sir John, his dwelling, Crosby Hall, 23; a letter of his daughter, 24 _et seq._ Steele, Richard, 259; author of the _Tatler_, 280; his _Christian Hero_, 281; his marriages, 281 _et seq._; his literary qualities, 285. Stratford, the town of, and surrounding country, 63; a walk to, from Windsor, 70. Stuart, house of, 4. Suckling, Sir John, 140; his tragic death, 142. Swift, Jonathan, 226, 259; early life of, 312; his life at Sir William Temple’s, 313; goes back to Ireland, 314; his _Battle of the Books_ and _Tale of a Tub_, 316; appointed chaplain to Lord Berkeley, 318; his politics, 324; his London life, 328; _Stella’s Journal_, 328; “Cadenus and Vanessa,” 332; back in Ireland, 333; his secret marriage with Stella, 335; his _Gulliver’s Travels_, 340; his madness and death, 340.