Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature

by John Churton Collins

FOOTNOTES:

[50] Act I. Sc. i. This is a very pointed reference, but in the second instance, in All's Well that Ends Well, Act II. Sc. i., "They say miracles are past," he gives a turn to the expression which converts it into a rebuke of Rationalism.

[51] Act I. Sc. ii.

[52] Act II. Sc. ii.

[53] In opposition to these may, it is true, be cited Othello's words to Desdemona—Othello, V. 2: the Duke's remark about putting the unrepentant Barnardine to death—Measure for Measure, IV. 3: the dying speeches of Buckingham and Catharine in Henry VIII., II. 1; IV. 2: Laertes on Ophelia,—Hamlet, V. 1. But these passages, and others like them, cannot be cited as evidence to the contrary; they are merely dramatic utterances.

[54] Cf. Ethics, I. x. 11, and III. vi. 6.

[55] Shakespeare Commentaries, Vol. II. 620-1.

[56] Article on Shakespeare, Quarterly Review for July, 1871, p. 46.

[57] Two Gentlemen of Verona: V. 4.

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[INDEX]

• Accius quoted, [244]
• Addison, [15]: [272]: [281]
• Æschylus, [59];
  • quoted, [62];
  • his descriptions of Nature, [241];
  • his theology, [267]: [261]: [364]
• Alcæus, [287]
• Alcman quoted, [240]
• Alamanni, [123]
• Anacreon, [286]
• Anthology, Greek, [116]: [117]: [243]
• Antimachus of Colophon, his Poems, [289]
• Antipater of Sidon, [116]
• Apollonius Rhodius, [78];
  • beauty of his descriptions, [242-3]
• Archilochus quoted, [287]
• Ariosto quoted, [79];
  • his Orlando, [113]
• Aristophanes, [242]: [260]: [280];
  • his censure of Euripides, [265]
• Aristotle, [63]: [67];
  • influence on Spenser, [120-1];
  • style, [122];
  • his doctrine of the καθαρσις, [264-5];
  • his Æsthetics, [265-6];
  • Poetics, [274-6];
  • his Rhetoric, [287]
• Armstrong, Dr. John, his connection with Thomson, [333]
• Arnold, Matthew, [63];
  • quoted, [21]: [105]: [106]: [194]: [272-3]
• Athenæus, [293]
• Ausonius, his Rosæ, [246]
• Avitus, [251]
• Bacon, Lord, his Sylva Sylvarum, [114];
  • his Latin style, [122];
  • quoted, [182];
  • on poetry, [279]
• Barclay, his Argenis, [129]
• Barnum, the late Mr., on Advertisement, [158]
• Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, [219]
• [Benecke], Mr. E. F. M., his Antimachus of Colophon and Position of Women in Greek Poetry reviewed, [283-93]
• [Bentley], Richard, [160]
• Bernays, Prof., on the καθαρσις of Aristotle, [265]
• Boileau, [125]
• Bolingbroke, Lord, [119]: [321]
• Boswell, James, [134]
• Bowden, Rev. H. Sebastian, his Religion of Shakespeare reviewed, [351-69]
• Brewer, Rev. Prof., quoted, [361]
• Brown, Mr. J. T. T., his Authorship of the Kingis Quair reviewed, [172-82]
• Browne, Sir Thomas, his Hydriotaphia, [102];
  • quoted, [368]
• Browning, Robert, on the Comparative Study of Ancient and Modern Classical Literature, [64]
• Browning, Mrs., [297]
• Burke, Edmund, [71]: [100-1]: [125]: [126]
• Burns, Robert, [145];
  • Comparison with Catullus, [347]
• Butcher, Prof. S. H., his Some Aspects of the Greek Genius reviewed, [255-69]
• Butler, Bishop, quoted, [214]
• Butler, Mr. Samuel, on Shakespeare's Sonnets, [222-4]
• Cædmon quoted, [95]
• Caine, Mr. Hall, [28]
• Callimachus, [242]
• Camoens, [350]
• Campbell, Prof. Lewis, [259]
• Carew, Thomas, [305]
• Catullus, his descriptions of Nature, [245]: [336-9];
  • quoted, [285];
  • characteristics of his genius, [335];
  • his Attis, [339-40];
  • his pathos, [337-8];
  • his connection with Lesbia, [342-5];
  • parallel between Poems to Lesbia and Shakespeare's Sonnets, [345-6];
  • his versatility, [346];
  • comparison with Burns, [347];
  • Mr. Tremenheere's version of the Love Poems, [347-9]
• Cawthorn, John, [60]
• [Chaucer], [53]: [6]: [122-3]
• Churchill, Charles, quoted, [159]
• Cicero, influence on English prose, [61];
  • as a critic of rhetoric, [278-9];
  • on immortality, [360]
• Clarendon, [123]
• Classics, influence of the Greek and Roman Classics on English Literature, [58-63];
  • exclusion of from Schools of Literature by the English Universities, [45-64];
  • effects of this illustrated, [76-83]
• Claudian quoted, [246]
• Colvin, Mr. Sidney, his edition of Stevenson's Letters reviewed, [165-71]
• Coleridge, S. T., [127]: [130]: [281]
• Coleridge, the late Lord, on Greek, [255]
• Cory, William, [253]
• Cousin, Victor, his theory of beauty and art, [272]
• Criticism, reasons of present degraded state of, [13-26];
  • characteristics of current criticism described, [26-30]: [270-1];
  • effects on literature generally, [31-4];
  • refusal of the Universities to train critics and men of letters, [38-44];
  • lethargy and indifference of scholars, progressive degradation of literature the certain result, [43-44]
• Critics, characteristics of popular, [27-31]: [93-109]: [110-32]: [151-7]
• Crowe, William, [249]
• Cynewulf, [95]
• Dante, [49];
  • quoted, [335];
  • his Sonnets and Canzoni, [350]
• [De Quincey], Thomas, characteristics of, [203-4];
  • his comparative failure, [204];
  • Mr. Hogg's recollections of, [203-10]
• Douglas, Gavin, his translation of Virgil, [96-7]
• Drayton, Michael, [60]
• Dryden, his Discourse on Epic Poetry, [65];
  • quoted, [153];
  • on the functions of poetry, [280];
  • his translations, [148]
• Dubos, the Abbé, [281]
• Dunbar, William, [176];
  • Mr. Smeaton's Life of, reviewed, [183-92];
  • characteristics of his poetry, [190-1]
• Dyer, John, his descriptive poetry, [248]
• Earle, Prof., on relation of Classics to English Literature, [59] (note)
• Earle, John, his Microcosmographie, [129]
• Editors, their relation to current literature, [22];
  • in no way responsible for the present condition of current literature, [23-24]
• Ennius, [59]
• Euripides, [82];
  • his fine pictures of Nature, [242];
  • quoted, [262];
  • his Alcestis quoted, [286]
• Feltham, Owen, his Resolves, [129]
• Flaccus, Valerius, [246]
• Fletcher, Phineas, [101]
• Foote, Samuel, quoted, [205]
• Fox, John, his Book of Martyrs, [113]
• Fraunce, Abraham, his Countess of Pembroke's Ivy Church, [309]
• Froude, James Anthony, on the effect of discouraging the study of the Classics, [65]
• Garnett, Father, [354]
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, [102]
• Gervinus, Prof., quoted, [360]
• Glanville, Joseph, [104]
• [Gibbon], Edward, [125]: [150]: [195]
• Goethe, [49]: [86];
  • quoted, [273]: [360]: [362]
• Goldsmith quoted, [247]
• Gosse, Edmund, his Short History of Modern English Literature reviewed [110-32]
• Gossing, analysis of the accomplishment, [115];
  • compared with Euphuism, id.
• [Gower], John, [124];
  • Confessio Amantis, [195]
• Gray, Thomas, on Lydgate, [98]
• Greene, Robert, [14]
• Hall, William, Mr. Sidney Lee on, [216]
• Hampole, Richard of, his Pricke of Conscience, [179]
• Harrison, Mr. Frederic, [35]
• Hawes, Stephen, his Pastime of Pleasure, [200]
• Heraclitus quoted, [361]
• Hermesianax quoted, [287]
• Hill, Aaron, [331]
• Hoccleve, Thomas, [198]
• Hogg, Mr. James, his Recollections of De Quincey reviewed, [203-10]
• Homer quoted, his fine descriptions of Nature, [237-9];
  • his women, [286]: [288];
  • his description of Hades, [297]
• Hooker quoted, [362]
• Horace, influence of his Epistles and Satires on English poetry, [60];
  • quoted, [151]: [297]: [301];
  • deficient in poetic sensibility, [336]
• Hroswitha, [251]
• Huxley, Prof., on Merton Chair at Oxford, [38]
• Ibycus, [240]
• Jago, Richard, [249]
• James I. of Scotland, his Kingis Quair, [172];
  • its genuineness vindicated, [174-82]
• Japp, Dr. Alexander, Life of De Quincey, [209]
• Jebb, Prof., his services to Greek Literature, [258]
• Johnson, Dr., quoted, [152]
• Jonson, Ben, on Poetry, [280]
• Jowett, Prof., quoted, [64]
• Jusserand, M., his Literary History of the English People reviewed, [193-202]
• Keats, John, [127]: [298]: [347]
• Landor, W. S., [298]
• Lang, Mr. Andrew, [259]
• Lauderdale, [310]
• Leaf, Mr. Walter, [259]
• Lee, Mr. Sidney, his Life of Shakespeare reviewed, [211-8];
  • on Shakespeare's Sonnets, [229-30]
• Le Gallienne, Mr. Richard, his Retrospective Reviews reviewed, [151-7]
• Leopardi quoted, [20]: [300]
• Lesbia and Catullus, [335-50]
• Lessing, on Philologists, [86];
  • his Laocoon, [41];
  • his Hamburgishe Dramaturgie, [67]
• Log-rolling, its pernicious effects, [133-44]
• Longinus, the Treatise attributed to, discussed, [276-8];
  • quoted, [270]
• Lydgate, his style and versification, [98];
  • id., [115];
  • characteristics of his poetry, [198-9]
• [Macaulay], Lord, [141]: [155]
• Mallet, David, claim to authorship of Rule Britannia discussed, [321-4]
• Malory, Thomas, [201]
• Mannyng, his Handlying of Synne, [195]
• Marlowe, Christopher, [14]
• Martial, his epigrams, [337]
• Max Müller, Prof., [52]
• Meleager, his Anthology, [116-7];
  • quoted, [243]
• Menander quoted, [262]
• Mimnermus, his love poetry to Nanno, [287]
• Milton quoted, [41] (note): [62];
  • his apology for Smectymnuus, quoted, [103];
  • on poetry, [267];
  • quoted, [212];
  • music of his verse, [317]
• Mitford, Rev. J., on the corrections in Thomson's Seasons, [330-4]
• Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, [125]: [306]
• Morel, M. Léon, his Monograph on Thomson, [319]
• More, Sir Thomas, his Utopia, [101]
• More, Henry, [274]
• Morgan, Sir George Osborne, his Translation of Virgil's Eclogues reviewed, [308-17]
• Morley, Mr. John, [63];
  • quoted, [64]
• Myers, Mr. Ernest, [259]
• Müller, Prof. E., his Geschichte der Theorie der Kunst bei den Alten, [264]
• Ogilvie, John, [310]
• Ovid, [60]: [177]: [178]: [246]
• Pacuvius, his Dulorestes quoted, [244]
• Palgrave, Francis Turner, his Landscape in Poetry reviewed, [236-49];
  • an appreciation of, [250-4]
• [Pater], Walter, [63]: [152]: [265]: [267]
• Pecock, Reginald, his Repressor, [128-9]
• Petrarch, [287]: [296]
• [Persius] quoted, [158]
• Phillips, Mr. Stephen, his poems reviewed, [294-300]
• Pindar quoted, [262];
  • his word pictures, [240]
• Plato, his Symposium, [78-9];
  • quoted, [263];
  • his theory of poetry, [274]: [276]
• Plutarch, his pictures of women, [290]
• Pomfret, John, his Choice, [101]
• [Pope] quoted, [84];
  • on Philologists, [86];
  • quoted, [138];
  • his Satires and Epistles, [125];
  • his alleged revision of Thomson's Seasons discussed, [328-32]
• Propertius quoted, [246]
• Publishers, honourable character of the leading, [23]
• Quarterly Review, article on From Shakespeare to Pope, [40]
• Quintilian as a critic, [278]
• Raffety, Mr. Frank W., his Books worth Reading reviewed, [145-50]
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, quoted, [173]
• Rossetti, William Michael, his edition of Shelley's Adonais, [76-83]
• Rucellai, his dramas and his L'Api, [124]
• Sainte-Beuve, his essays, [41];
  • on Philologists, [86];
  • his criticism, [270];
  • the master of Matthew Arnold, [281]
• Saintsbury, Prof., his Short History of English Literature reviewed, [93-109]
• Sallust, [61]
• Schiller, [41]
• Schick, Dr., on Lydgate's versification, [99]
• [Schipper], Dr. J., on Dunbar, [187]
• Schmeding, Dr. G., his Monograph on Thomson, [318]
• School of English Literature at Oxford, its deplorable organization, [45-72];
  • how this may be remedied, [73-5]
• Scott of Amwell, [249]
• Scott, Sir Walter, on Dunbar, [186]
• Self-Advertisement, its organization and effects, [158-64]
• Seneca, influence on English prose, [61]
• Sedulius, [251]
• Shaftesbury, third Earl of, his style, [117-9]
• Shakespeare, [62]: [81-2];
  • Clarendon Press edition of his Hamlet, [84-92];
  • quoted, [154]: [158];
  • Mr. Lee's Life of, [211-8];
  • scantiness of traditions of, [213];
  • his sonnets, various theories, [219-20];
  • about difficulties of supposing them autobiographical, [225-6];
  • his relations with Southampton and Pembroke, [228-34];
  • story in the Sonnets probably fictitious, [235];
  • religion of Shakespeare, [351-69];
  • his politics, [352-3];
  • not a Roman Catholic, [352-6];
  • on death, [357-8];
  • silence about a future life, [359],
  • and about metaphysical questions, [360];
  • comparison in this respect with Aristotle, [360];
  • his theology, [362-4];
  • on prayer, [365];
  • on conscience, [366];
  • his attitude to Christianity, [366];
  • when his ethics are Christian, [368];
  • his religious ideas summed up, [368-9]
• Sharp, Archbishop, quoted, [218]
• Shelley, his Adonais, [76-83];
  • absurd criticism of his style, [126]
• Shenstone, William, [249]
• Sidney, Sir Philip, [131]
• Simpson, Richard, [351]: [368]
• Smart, Christopher, his Song to David, [340]
• Smeaton, Mr. Oliphant, his life of Dunbar reviewed, [183-92]
• Sophocles, [242];
  • his ethics, [267-9];
  • quoted, [285];
  • his ideal man, [366]
• Spenser, Edmund, [112]: [113];
  • influence of Greek and Latin Classics on, [120-1];
  • influence of, on Milton, [121];
  • on the functions of poetry, [280]
• Stanihurst, Richard, [308]
• Stephen, Mr. Leslie, [35]
• Stesichorus, his Calyce, [287]
• Stevenson, R. L., Letters reviewed, [165-71]
• Strabo quoted, [287]
• [Swift], Jonathan, his Sentiments of a Church of England Man, [113];
  • Tale of a Tub, [149]
• Tacitus quoted, [20]: [192]: [254];
  • as a critic, [278-9];
  • on immortality, [360]
• Talleyrand quoted, [210]
• Tennyson, Lord, [62]: [162-3]: [245]: [247]: [298]: [337];
  • as a critic, [252]
• Terence, women of, [292]
• Text-Books on English Literature, specimens of, [76-150]
• Thackeray on Wordsworth and Moore, [250]
• Theocritus, [243]
• Theognis quoted, [262]
• Thomson, James, [243];
  • quoted, [248];
  • claim to the authorship of Rule Britannia vindicated, [321-8];
  • corrections in the Seasons discussed, [328-34]
• Thorpe, Thomas, [216]: [227]: [235]
• Tovey, Rev. D. C., his edition of Thomson's poems reviewed, [318-34]
• Tremenheere, Mr. J. H. A., his version of Catullus' Love Poems, [335-50]
• Trissino, his Sofonisba, [123]
• Thucydides, [258]: [260];
  • on hope, [262]
• Tupper, Martin, [251]
• Tyler, Mr. Thomas, on Shakespeare's Sonnets, [228]
• Tyrwhitt, Thomas, [223]: [234]
• Universities, their indifference to the interests of literature, [38-40]: [45-50];
  • effects of the exclusion of the Greek and Roman Classics from the so-called Schools of Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, [55-71]
• Varro, as a critic, [278]
• Virgil, his beautiful descriptions of Nature, [245-6];
  • his Eclogues, [308-17]
• Voltaire on Philologists, [86]
• Walters, Cuming, on Shakespeare's Sonnets, [220-1]
• Warburton, Bishop, [205];
  • quoted, [270]
• Warton, Dr. Joseph, on Thomson's poetry, [330]
• Warton, Thomas, on Lydgate, [98]
• Watson, Mr. William, great beauty of his English hexameters, [317]
• [Wharton], Dr., his Sappho, [152]
• Willmott, Rev. Aris, his Gems from English Literature, [163-4]
• Willoughby, his Avisa, [101]: [225]
• Wordsworth, William, [153];
  • on Dyer's poetry, [248];
  • his poems on classical legends, [298]
• Worsfold, Mr. Basil, his Principles of Criticism reviewed, [270-82]
• Wrangham, Archdeacon, [310]
• Wright, Dr. Aldis, his edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet, [84-92]
• Wright, Mr. W. H. Kearley, his West Country Poets reviewed, [301-7]
• Wyntown, his Chronicle, [180-1]
• Xenophon on women, [290]
• Young, Edward, quoted, [87]

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