ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS
Queen Anne and the Georges
BY
DONALD G. MITCHELL
NEW YORK
Charles Scribner's Sons
MDCCCXCVII
Copyright, 1895, by
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TROW DIRECTORY
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ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS
By Donald G. Mitchell
I. from Celt to Tudor
II. From Elizabeth to Anne
III. Queen Anne and the Georges
IV. The Later Georges to Victoria
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LETTER OF DEDICATION
[To Mrs. Grover Cleveland.]
MY DEAR MADAM:
Many bookmakers of that early Georgian period covered by this little volume eagerly sought to dignify their opening pages with the name and titles of some high-placed patron or patroness. It is not, my dear Madam, to revive this practice that I have asked permission to inscribe this little book to so worthy an occupant of the Presidential Mansion; but, rather, I have had in mind the courteous reception which—while yet an inmate of a college on the beautiful banks of Cayuga Lake—you once gave to some portions of the literary talk embodied in these pages; and remembering, furthermore, the unswerving dignity, and the unabating womanly gentleness by which you have conquered and adorned the trying conditions of a high career, I have wished to add my applause (as I do now and here) for the grace and kindliness which have ennobled your life, and made us all proud of such an example of American womanhood.
Very respectfully yours,
Dond. G. Mitchell.
Edgewood, June, 1895.
CONTENTS.
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An Irish Bishop, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [3]A Scholar, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [9]Two Doctors, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [12]Lady Wortley Montagu, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [21]Alexander Pope, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [30]His Poetic Methods, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [35]The Rape of the Lock, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [39]Pope's Homer, and Life at Twickenham, . . . . . . . . . . [43]His Last Days, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [48]
From Stuart to Brunswick, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [53]Samuel, Richardson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [62]Harry Fielding, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [67]Poet of the Seasons, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [73]Thomas Gray, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [79]A Courtier, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [83]Young Mr. Johnson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [88]
Johnson and Rasselas, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [104]The Painter and the Club, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [108]Some Old Club-Men, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [113]Mr. Boswell, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [118]Gibbon, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [122]Oliver Goldsmith, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [130]The Thrales and the End, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [135]
A Scottish Historian, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [145]A Pair of Poets, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [157]Miss Burney, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [164]Hannah More, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [171]
King George III., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [181]Two Orators, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [188]An Orator and Playwright, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [195]The Boy Chatterton, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [202]Laurence Sterne, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [211]
Macpherson and other Scots, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [221]George Crabbe, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [231]William Cowper, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [239]His Later Life, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [249]
Parson White, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [259]A Hampshire Novelist, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [265]Old Juvenilia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [271]Miss Edgeworth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [277]Some Early Romanticism, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [281]Vathek, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [285]Robert Burns, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [291]
A Banker Poet, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [301]Coleridge, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [309]Charles Lamb, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [319]Wordsworth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [327]His Poems, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [330]