English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 3: Queen Anne and the GeorgesMitchell, Donald Grant
History
English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 3: Queen Anne and the Georges
Mitchell, Donald Grant
English literature -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Intellectual life
Sterne, Laurence, his death, 211, 212; his style, 212-214; his
burial-place, 215; his character and habit, 215, 216; his literary
pilferings, 216, 217; pathos of his life, 217, 218, 220.
Stoke-Pogis Churchyard and Gray's _Elegy_, 82.
Stuart, Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, 55, 56.
Stuart, Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 57.
Stuart, Henry, 56.
Stuart, James Edward, the Pretender, 53-55.
Swift, Dean, and Pope's Homer, 44.
Thackeray, W. M., and Hannah More, 177, 178.
_Thaddeus of Warsaw_, Jane Porter's, 283, 284.
Thomson, James, his boyhood, 73; brings his poetry to London, 73, 74;
his _Winter_, 74, 75; befriended by Pope, 76; his _Liberty_ and _Castle
of Indolence_, 77, 78; his burial-place, 101.
Thrales, The, and Dr. Johnson, 135-137, 139, 140.
Turk's Head Club, The, 111 _et seq._
Unwin, Mrs., and William Cowper, 243-245, 252, 253.
Vanhomrigh, Miss, 4, 5.
_Vathek_, Beckford's, 285-288.
Walpole, Horace, his words concerning Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 30;
his parentage and life at Twickenham, 83, 84, 87, 88; his _Castle of
Otranto_, 84; his letters, 85-87; his words concerning Gibbon, 125; and
the poet Chatterton, 206-209.
Watts, Isaac, associations of the name, 12, 13; birth, parentage, and
education, 13, 14; Bryant's admiration for, 14; his hymns, 14, 15;
endowed with a home, 15.
Westminster Bridge, 103.
White, Gilbert, and the _Natural History of Selborne_, 259-264; his
house, 264.
Williams, Miss, and Dr. Johnson, 104, 105.
Wordsworth, William, 298; and Coleridge, 313; the author's personal
reminiscence of, 327-330; his poetry, 330-337; his parentage and early
years, 337-340; his marriage, 340; his love of Nature, 340, 341;
personal traits, 341-343; his home at Rydal Mount, 343, 344; his
pension, 344; made Poet Laureate, 344; opposed to railways and
manufactures, 345, 346; his burial-place, 347.
Young, Dr. Edward, his _Night Thoughts_, 15, 16, 18-20; his birth,
parentage, and early work, 16; his _Last Day_, 17; his marriage, 18;
back at court, 19, 20; Hannah More's words concerning, 20.
[Transcriber's note: the source book's odd-numbered pages had varying
headers. In this etext, they have been converted to sidenotes and
placed where appropriate.]
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