SECTION I.--Dryden's Début SECTION II.--Dryden's Family and Education SECTION III.--Dramatic Theories of Dryden SECTION IV.--The Style of Dryden's Plays SECTION V.--His Merit as a Dramatist SECTION VI.--His Prose Style SECTION VII.--How Literature in England is Occupied with Politics and Religion SECTION VIII.--Development of the Art of Writing SECTION IX.--Dryden's Translations and Adaptations.--His Occasional Soul--Stirring Verses SECTION X.--Misfortunes of Dryden's Old Age CHAPTER THIRD The Revolution SECTION I.--The Moral Revolution SECTION II.--Brutality of The People.--Private Morals.--Chesterfield and Gay SECTION III.--Principles of Civilization in France and England SECTION IV.--Religion SECTION V.--The Pulpit SECTION VI.--Theology SECTION VII.--The Constitution.--Locke's Theory of Government SECTION VIII.--Parliamentary Orators SECTION IX.--Doctrines of the French Revolution Contrasted with the Conservative Tendencies of the English People CHAPTER FOURTH Addison SECTION I.--The Significance of the Writings of Addison and Swift SECTION II.--Addison's Character and Education SECTION III.--Addison's Seriousness.--His Nobility of Character SECTION IV.--The Morality of Addison's Essays SECTION V.--How Addison made Morality Fashionable.--Characteristics of his Style SECTION VI.--Addison's Gallantry.--His Humor.--Sir Roger de Coverley.--The Vision of Mirza CHAPTER FIFTH Swift SECTION I.--Concerning Swift's Life and Character SECTION II.--Swift's Prosaic and Positive Mind SECTION III.--Swift as a Political Pamphleteer SECTION IV.--Swift as a Humorist.--As a Poet SECTION V.--Swift as a Narrator and Philosopher CHAPTER SIXTH The Novelists SECTION I.--The Anti-Romantic Novel SECTION II.--Daniel De Foe SECTION III.--The Evolution of the Eighteenth Century Novel SECTION IV.--Samuel Richardson SECTION V.--Henry Fielding SECTION VI.--Tobias Smollett SECTION VII.--Laurence Sterne SECTION VIII.--Oliver Goldsmith SECTION IX.--Samuel Johnson SECTION X.--William Hogarth INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON BRIDGE Etching from an original by Edwin Edwards JOHN MILTON Photogravure from an etching INITIAL LETTER FROM THE GIFFORD PSALTER Fac-simile Book Illumination of the Thirteenth Century PRINTER'S MARK OF PHILIPPE LE NOIR Fac-simile example of Printing and Engraving in the Fifteenth Century PAGE FROM THE CHRONICLES OF HUNGARY Fac-simile example of Printing and Engraving in the Fifteenth Century BOOK II.--THE RENAISSANCE (_Continued_) HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE CHAPTER FIFTH The Christian Renaissance Section I.--Decay of the Southern Civilizations