English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne - Donald Grant Mitchell

[112] Button’s was another favorite Coffee-house in Russell Street—on the opposite side from Will’s—and nearer Covent Garden. I must express my frequent obligations, in respect of London Topography, to the interesting Literary Landmarks of Mr. Laurence Hutton.

[113] Acquaintance with Miss Vanhomrigh probably first made in winter of 1708, but no family intimacy till year 1710. See Athenæum, January 16, 1886, in notice of Lane-Poole’s Letters and Journals of Swift.

[114] Henry Morley, in the recent editing of his Carrisbrooke Swift, lays stress upon the sufficient warning which Miss Vanhomrigh should have found in this poem. It appears to me that he sees too much in Swift’s favor and too little in Vanessa’s.

[115] Miss Vanhomrigh died in May, 1723; and the final renewal of Bishop Berkeley’s deed of gift (of the Whitehall farm, Newport) to Yale College, is dated August 17, 1733.

[116] Thomas Sheridan, D.D., father of “Dictionary” Sheridan, and grandfather of Richard Brinsley. He was a great friend of Swift, and Gulliver’s Travels was prepared for the press at his cottage in Cavan (Quilca).

[117] The Drapier Letters were published in 1724. When the successive parts of Gulliver were written it is impossible to determine. A portion was certainly in existence as early as 1722. The whole was not published until 1726-27.

INDEX.

Addison, Joseph, [259], [280];
early life of, [288 et seq.];
his “Cato,” [289];
The Spectator, [290];
“Sir Roger De Coverley,” [291];
Swift’s opinion of the Spectator, [292];
his marriage, [294];
“The Vision of Mirza,” [295];
his political life, [297];
his death, [298].
Anne, Princess, daughter of James II., [262];
Queen, [267];
her characteristics, [278];
her accession to the throne, [302].
Aubrey, [94], [141].
Baxter, Richard, his Saints’ Rest, [187].
Beaumont and Fletcher, [38], [93];
a quotation from “Philaster,” [97];
“The Faithful Shepherdess,” [98].
Bible, King James’, [44 et seq.];
dedication of, [45];
the revisers of, [47 et seq.];
its literary value, [51 et seq.];
early English, [54];
the Genevan, [55];
the Bishops’, [55];
the first American, [56].
Blackfriars Theatre, [34].
Blenheim Palace, [305].
Bodley, John, [55].
Boyle, Robert, [207].
Boyne, battle of the, [264].
Browne, Sir Thomas, [222].
Buchanan, George, [7].
Buckingham, Duke of, and Charles I., [133];
his son, author of “The Rehearsal,” [134].
Buckingham, the Second Villiers, [184].
Bunyan, John, [209];
his birthplace, [210];
his early life and marriage, [211];
a preacher, [212];
imprisoned, [213];
his Pilgrim’s Progress, [215].
Burnet’s History of his Own Times, [202], [258].
Burton, Robert, author of Anatomy of Melancholy, [144].
Busino, his account of the representation of Jonson’s “Pleasure is Reconciled to Virtue,” at Whitehall, [29 et seq.]
Butler, Samuel, author of Hudibras, [193].
Cary, Sir Robert, carries to Edinburgh the news of the Queen’s death, [8].
Charlecote House, [66].
Charles I., [105], [132];
influence of the Duke of Buckingham on, [133];
execution of, [162 et seq.]
Charles II., restoration of, [182];
death of, [255].
Charter House, the, [11].
Clarendon, Earl of, his History of the Rebellion, [201].
Compton, Lord, [24].
Congreve, William, [269];
visited by Voltaire, [270].
Counterblast to Tobacco, the, of James I., [7], [104].
Cowley, Abraham, [145];
an extract from his “Hymn to Light,” [146];
compared with Tennyson, [147].
Cromwell, [163].
Davies, Sir John, his lines on the Immortality of the Soul, [49].
Defoe, Daniel, [258], [272];
a pamphleteer, [273];
his Advice to English Tradesmen, [274];
his Robinson Crusoe, [276];
on the Commission in Edinburgh, [277].
Diodati, Charles, the friend of Milton, [156].
Donne, John, [49, note].
Dorset, [186].
Doxology, of the Lord’s Prayer, the, [52].
Drummond of Hawthornden, [28];
entertains Jonson, [28 et seq.]
Dryden, John, [227];
his fertility, [228];
his eulogies of Cromwell and Charles II., [230 et seq.];
Mr. Saintsbury’s opinion of his consistency, [232];
his Annus Mirabilis, [233];
the London of, [234];
his plays, [238];
his Hind and Panther, [241];
his Virgil, [243];
his “All for Love,” [244];
estimate of him, [246], [259], [261].
Ellwood, Milton’s friend, [175].
Elizabeth, Queen, and the English Bible, [55].
Elizabeth, daughter of James I., [100].
England at the death of Elizabeth, [1 et seq.]
Etherege, [186].
Evelyn, John, [137];
his diary, [201].
Ford, John, [91].
Fortunes of Nigel, Scott’s, its picture of James I., [19], [35].
Freeman, Mr., his misleading averment as to the errors in Ivanhoe, [20].
Fuller, Thomas, his English Worthies, [221].
Gay, John, [308];
his “Beggar’s Opera,” [308];
his Trivia, [310].
Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s time, [33], [36].
Gosson, Stephen, a representation of the Puritan feeling, [42].
Greenwich Hospital, [265].
Hampton Court Conference, [44 et seq.]
Harrison, William, [20 et seq.]
Herbert, George, the poet, [7];
poems of, [115];
his marriage, [118], [128].
Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, [7].
Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, [74, note].
Herrick, Robert, [120];
specimens of his verse, [122];
character of, [124];
his Hesperides, [125].
Howell, James, [107].
Hudibras, [193].
James I., his pedigree, [4 et seq.];
his person and character, [6 et seq.];
his journey to London to be crowned, [9 et seq.];
his family, [100];
tastes and characteristics of, [101 et seq.];
his Counterblast to the Use of Tobacco, [36], [104].
James II., [256].
Johnson, Hester (“Stella”), [314], [321];
Swift’s letters to, [328];
“Stella’s Journal,” [329];
her secret marriage with Swift, [335];
and Vanessa, [335];
death of, [337].
Jonson, Ben, his adulation of the King, [26];
his literary versatility, [27];
his masque at Whitehall, [29 et seq.], [106].
Judith Shakespeare, William Black’s novel, [33].
Kenilworth, Walter Scott’s, [201].
Kensington in Queen Anne’s time, [308].
Kingsley’s pictures of Elizabethan characters and times, [18 et seq.]
Lamb, Charles, influence of Sir Thomas Browne upon, [224];
his essay, “The Genteel Style in Writing,” [227].
Laud, Archbishop, [134], [136].
Lily, Milton’s schoolmaster, [152], [186].
Locke, John, his treatise on the Human Understanding, [249];
his life, [250];
on education, [252].
“McFingal,” the, of John Trumbull, [196].
Marlborough, Duke of, [303].
Marlborough, Duchess of, [302];
her influence over Queen Anne, [304].
Marston, John, specimen of his satire, [92].
Marvell, Andrew, Milton’s assistant, [170];
story of his good fortune, [189];
his “Garden,” etc., [191].
Mary, Queen, daughter of James II., [262];
death of, [301].
Massinger’s “A New Way to Pay Old Debts,” [60], [93], [94].
Masson’s Life and Times of Milton, [151].
Mermaid Tavern, the, [34], [151].
Milton, John, [150];
Masson’s Life of, [151];
his father, [151];
at school, [152];
his early verse, [153 et seq.];
at Cambridge, [153];
his travels, [156];
his marriage to Mary Powell, [157];
his daughters, [160];
his first published poems, [160];
his pamphlets, [161];
his defence of regicide, [164];
in peril, [167];
domestic life, [169];
Munkacsy’s picture of, [169];
his third marriage, [171];
The Paradise Lost, [171];
his use of other books, [173];
his last days, [174];
payments for his Paradise, [176];
deserted by his daughters, [177];
Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, [177], [188];
his death, [179].
Mortality, Old, Scott’s novel, [264].
Newton, Isaac, [207], [258].
“New Way to Pay Old Debts, A,” [60], [94].
Nigel, Scott’s novel, [19], [35].
Old Mortality, Scott’s novel, [324].
Otway, Thomas, [237].
Overbury, Sir Thomas, [114], his Characters.
“Overreach, Sir Giles,” [60], [94].
Penn, William, [258].
Pepys, Mr., his purchase of Hudibras, [194], [198];
his diary, [199];
extracts from, [202].
Peveril of the Peak, Scott’s, [184].
Primer, the Old New England, [54].
Prior, Matthew, [258], [268].
Prynne, William, [142];
his Histriomastix, [143].
Raleigh, Walter, [11 et seq.];
in the Tower, [13];
his History of the World, [13];
his expedition to Guiana, [13];
executed, [15];
specimens of his writings, [15 et seq.];
his Ocean to Cynthia, [17, note];
his life an epitome of Elizabethan times, [18].
Rochester, Earl of, [185].
Selden, John, his Table-Talk, [129].
Shakespeare, [32 et seq.];
[56 et seq.];
his characters real, [58];
his personality, [61];
his family relations, [67];
his children, [68], [84];
in London, [73 et seq.];
early poetry, [75];
“Love’s Labor’s Lost,” [76], [77];
his “Venus and Adonis,” and “Lucrece,” [77];
like Chaucer in taking his material, [79];
his closing years, [81 et seq.];
his son-in-law, Dr. Hall, [83].
Sheridan, Thomas, [337].
Sidney, Lady Dorothy, pursued by Waller, [149].
Southampton, Earl of, [74].
Spencer, Sir John, his dwelling, Crosby Hall, [23];
a letter of his daughter, [24 et seq.]
Steele, Richard, [259];
author of the Tatler, [280];
his Christian Hero, [281];
his marriages, [281 et seq.];
his literary qualities, [285].
Stratford, the town of, and surrounding country, [63];
a walk to, from Windsor, [70].
Stuart, house of, [4].
Suckling, Sir John, [140];
his tragic death, [142].
Swift, Jonathan, [226], [259];
early life of, [312];
his life at Sir William Temple’s, [313];
goes back to Ireland, [314];
his Battle of the Books and Tale of a Tub, [316];
appointed chaplain to Lord Berkeley, [318];
his politics, [324];
his London life, [328];
Stella’s Journal, [328];
“Cadenus and Vanessa,” [332];
back in Ireland, [333];
his secret marriage with Stella, [335];
his Gulliver’s Travels, [340];
his madness and death, [340].
Swinburne, his estimate of Webster, [89].
Taine, his overdrawn picture of the Restoration, [186].
Taylor, Jeremy, [135];
his career, [136];
his Holy Living and Dying, [139].
Taylor, John, “the Water Poet,” a favorite of James I., [102].
Temple, Sir William, [224], [313];
death of, [317].
Theobalds, King James’ palace, [10], [105].
Tillotson, John, [188].
Tobacco in literature, [103 et seq.]
Trumbull, John, his McFingal, [196].
“Two Noble Kinsmen,” [95].
Vanbrugh, Sir John, [306].
“Vanessa,” Swift’s letter to, [315].
Vanhomrigh, Miss (“Vanessa”), [331];
death of, [336].
Waller, Edmund, [145];
his literary importance, [149].
Walton, Izaak, [111];
his Angler, [112];
his biographic sketches, [113].
Webster, John, [88];
Dyce’s edition of his works, [89];
character of his plays, [90];
Swinburne’s estimate of, [89].
Westward, Ho! Kingsley’s, [18].
William and Mary, [256].
William of Orange, [263 et seq.]
William III., [263];
his death, [301].
Will’s Coffee-house, [236].
Woodstock, Scott’s novel, [168].
Woodstock, the park at, [305].
Wotton, Sir Henry, [109].
Wren, Sir Christopher, [306].