And this Hebrew influence has existed ever since we were a nation, nay, even before. There was, indeed, no translated English Bible till the days of Wyclif, the contemporary of Chaucer; nevertheless the images and thoughts of the Latin Vulgate had become part of every good ecclesiastic, and in all preaching and exhortation the Biblical phrases were heard in English, perhaps rougher and less rhythmical than those of our own version, but still with their essential quality retained. Remember again that, still in these days, in all Christian churches, the language employed is deliberately Biblical, that the prayers are Biblical in expression, and that the language is considered the more apt and more effective in proportion as it more distinctly bears the Hebraic impress. Put all these considerations together, and it will be recognized without need of further words than on literary style, as well as on moral sentiment, the influence of the one Hebrew book has been unparalleled. Meanwhile the writings in English verse and prose which have taken their titles, their subject matter, their suggestions, or their inspiration, from the Bible, would form an interminable list. SOME POINTS IN THE PEDIGREE OF POETRY. [Illustration] SOME POINTS IN THE PEDIGREE OF EPIC VERSE. [Illustration] INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS Achilles Tatius; _Leucippe and Cleitophon_, 132. Addison, Joseph, 42, 43, 113, 114, 174, 177; _The Campaign_, 112; _Cato_, 79, 112, 170; the _Spectator_, 138, 173. Aelian, 133. Aeschylus, 19, 21, 49, 59, 62, 72; _Agamemnon_, 22, 66; _Eumenides_, 20; _Persae_, 62; _Prometheus Bound_, 21, 62, 65. Aesop, 33, 34, 94, 95, 129, 134. Akenside, Mark, 254; _Pleasures of the Imagination_, 113. Alamanni, Luigi, 210. Alcaeus, 16, 54, 107. Alciphron, 35. Alembert, Jean d’, 176. Alfieri, Count, 210. Alfred, King, 95, 113; translation of Boethius, 118; translation of Aesop, 135. _Amadis of Gaul_, 220, 250. _Amadis of Greece_, 220. Ambrose, St., 117. Ammianus, 117. Amyot, Jacques, translation of Plutarch, 161. Anacreon, 17, 46, 69. Andreini, Giovanni Battista; _Adamo_, 204. Andronicus, 78. Apollonius, 67. _Apollonius of Tyre_, 132. Apuleius; _The Golden Ass_, 116, 121. _Arabian Nights, the_, 129, 219. Archilochus of Paros, 15, 46. Aretino, Pietro, 95, 210. Ariosto, Lodovico, 93, 179, 196, 197, 212, 213, 249; _I Suppositi_, 214; _Orlando Furioso_, 200-203. Aristophanes, 24, 170; _Birds_, 24, 25. Aristophanes of Byzantium, 35. Aristotle, 30, 31, 39, 47, 48, 57, 58, 91, 129, 130, 166, 241; _Poetics_, 35, 57; _Rhetoric_, 35. Arnold, Matthew, 40, 41, 44, 57, 159, 177; _Essays in Criticism_, 83; _Thyrsis_, 26, 56, 68; _Tristram and Iseult_, 251; Works showing Greek influence, 67, 68. Arouet, François Marie. _See_ Voltaire. Athenaeus; _Deipnosophists_, 35.