History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

by Hippolyte Taine

The Roman Numerals Refer to the Volumes.—The Arabic Figures to the Pages of Each Volume.

Abelard, I. [158], [160]
Addison, Joseph, II. 265, 292, 300, 311;
his life and writings, 327-359; III. 83,
95, 259, 272, 280, 306
Adhelm, I. [58], [note 89], [69], [70,] [185]
Agriculture, improvement in, in sixteenth
century, I. [172]; in the nineteenth,
III. 43, 168
Akenside, Mark, III. 36
Alcuin, I. [64], [70]
Alexander VI, Pope, II. 5
Alexandrian philosophy, I. [21], [note 5]
Alfred the Great, I. [64], [69]
Alison, Sir Archibald, III. 44
Amory, Thomas, II. 438
Angelo, Michel, I. [183], 366; III. 27
Anglo-Saxon poetry, I. [53]
Ann of Cleaves, I. [186]
Anselm, I. [76]
Anthology the, I. [209], [240]
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, II. 381
Architecture, Norman, I. [75], [127]; the
Tudor style, [174]
Ariosto, I. [185], [222], [note 360], [note 366]; II. 236
Aristocracy British, in the nineteenth
century, III. 169 seq.
Arkwright, Sir Richard, II. 320
Armada, the I. [173], [279]
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, III. 100, 178
Arthur and Merlin, romance of, I. [77]
Ascham, Roger, I. [181], [246], [note 288]; II. 3
Athelstan, I. [36], [54]
Augier, Emile, III. 208
Austen, Jane, III. 85
Bacon, Francis, Lord, I. [245], [255], [note 384]; II.
34, 39; III. 268 seq. 284
Bacon, Roger, I. [161]
Bain, Alexander, III. 185
Bakewell, Robert, II. 320
Bale, John, I. [186]
Balzac, Honoré de, I. [3]; III. 215, 254
Barclay, Alexander, I. [165]
Barclay, John, II. 292
Barclay, Robert, I. [58]
Barrow, Isaac, II. 292, 295 seq.
Baxter, Richard, I. [268]; II. 56, 292
Bayly's (Lewis) Practice of Piety, II. 62
Beattie, Tames, II. 440; III. 36
Beauclerk, Henry, I. [76]
Beaumont, Francis, I. [291], [note 421], [note 423],
[note 459], [note 490], [note 494],
[note 495], [note 497], [note 506],
[note 509], [note 512];
II. 41, 45, 100
Becket, Thomas à, I. [97]
Beckford, W., III. 77
Bede, the Venerable, I. [64], [note 18], [note 69]
[note 73], [note 88], [note 89]
Bedford, Duke of (John Russell), II. 310
Beethovan, Lewis van, III. 87
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, II. 157, 254
Bell, Currer. See Brontë, Charlotte
Bénoit de Sainte-Maure, I. [76]
Bentham, Jeremy, II. 320
Bently, Richard, II. 303
Beowolf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, I.
[49]
Béranger, II. 11; III. 287
Berkeley, Bishop, II. 303
Berkley, Sir Charles, II. 141
Berners, Lord, I. [186]
Best, Paul, II. 50
Bible, English. See Wiclif, Tyndale
Blackmore, Sir Richard, II. 224
Blount, Edward, I. [192]
Boccaccio, I. [126], [132]; II. 266
Bodley, Sir Thomas, I. [246]
Boethius, I. [64], [note 90]
Boileau, II. 144, 184, 224, 262, 284; III. 7,
4, 345
Boleyn, Ann, I. [276]
Bolingbroke, Lord (Henry St. John), II.
275, 303; III. 8
Bonner, Edmund, II. 33
Borde, Andrew, I. [186]
Borgia, Cæsar, II. 5, 6
Borgia, Lucretia, I. [182]; II. 5
Bossu (or Lebossu), II. 224
Bossuet, I. [18]; II. 233; III. 25, 306
Boswell, James, II. 444 seq.
Bourchier. See Berners
Boyle, the Hon. Robert, II. 303
Bridaine, Father, II. 298
Britons, ancient, I. [38]
Brontë, Charlotte (Currer Bell), III. 85,
100, 185
Browne, Sir Thomas, I. [245], [246], [252],
[note 382], [note 383]; II. 34, 39
Browning, Mrs., III. 100, 185
Brunanburh, Athelstan's victory at, celebrated
in Saxon song, I. [54]
Buckingham, Duke of (John Sheffield),
II. 153, 180, 184
Buckle, Henry Thomas, III. 154 seq., 176
Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, III. 85, 185
Bunyan, John, II. 58-70, 133
Burke, Edmund, II. 303, 317-326, 444; III.
286, 306
Burleigh, Lord (William Cecil), I. [note 407];
III. 286
Burnet, Bishop, II. 202
Burney, Francisca (Madame D'Arblay),
II. 283, 320, 444; III. 275
Burns, Robert, II. 251; Sketch of his life
and works, III. 48-65
Burton, Robert, I. [note 277], [248]; II. 34, 100
Busby, Dr. Richard, II. 256
Bute, Lord, II. 273 seq., 310
Butler, Bishop, II. 320
Butler, Samuel, II. 137-140, 303
Byng, Admiral, II. 310
Byron, Lord, III. 11; his life and works,
102-151
Cædmon, hymns of, I. [57], [61]; his metrical
paraphrase of parts of the Bible,
[note 83], [61], [185]
Calamy, Edmund, II. 58
Calderon, I. [161], [279]; II. 155
Calvin, John, II. 11, 45, 301
Camden, William, I. [246]
Campbell, Thomas, III. 76, 112
Carew, Thomas, I. [238]
Carlyle, Thomas, I. [6]; III. 100, 176; style
and mind, 308 seq.; vocation, 327 seq.;
philosophy, morality, and criticism,
336 seq.; conception of history, 348
Carteret, John (Earl Granville), II. 311
Castlereagh, Lord, I. [note 514]
Catherine, St., play of, I. [76]
Cellini, Benvenuto, I. [26], [note 169], [note 290]
[note 292], [note 293], [note 409]
Cervantes, I. [100], [note 360], [222]; II. 410
Chalmers, George, I. [note 95], [note 345], [note 346]
Chandos, Duke of (John Brydges), III. 8
Chapman, George, I. [330]
Charles of Orleans, I. [84], [158]
Charles I of England, III. 276
Charles II and his court, II. 140 seq.
Chateaubriand, I. [4]; II. 346
Chatham. See Pitt
Chaucer, I. [106], [126], [155], [note 153]; II. 265
Chesterfield, Lord, II. 278 seq., 444; III. 15
Chevy Chase, ballad of, I. [125]
Chillingworth, William, I. [245]; II. 35, 38,
300
Christianity, introduction of, into Britain,
I. [56], [63] seq.
Chroniclers, French, I. [83]
Chroniclers, Saxon, I. [68]
Cibber, Colley, III. 8, 17
Cimbrians, the, I. [41]
Clarendon, Lord Chancellor (Edward
Hyde), I. [245]; II. 140
Clarke, Dr. John, II. 289, 301
Classic spirit in Europe, its origin and
nature, II. 170-173
Classical authors translated, I. [180], [190]
Clive, Lord, III. 272
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, III. 73
Collier, Jeremy, II. 225, 256
Collins, William, III. 37
Colman, George, II. 220
Comedy-writers, English, II. 188 seq.
Comines, Philippe de, I. [124]
Commerce in sixteenth century, I. [172];
III. 165 seq.
Comte, Auguste, III. 362
Condillac, Stephen-Bonnot de, III. 333,
363
Congreve, William, II. 188-210, 283
Conybeare, J. J., I. [note 64], [note 66], [note 74]
Corbet, Bishop, II. 35
Corneille, II. 224, 236
Cotton, Sir Robert, I. [246]
Court pageantries in the sixteenth century,
I. [176], [177]
Coventry, Sir John, II. 142
Coverdale, Miles, II. 20
Cowley, Abraham, I. [242]; II. 34, 71
Cowper, William, III. 67-73
Crabbe, George, III. 71, 112
Cranmer, Archbishop, II. 15, 23
Crashaw, Richard, II. 34
Criticism and History, III. 267 seq.
Cromwell, Oliver, I. [6]; II. 35, 50; III.
276, 319, 351
Crowne, John, II. 157
Curll, Edmund, III. 18
Daniel, Samuel, I. [246]
Dante, I. [135], [158], [161]; II. 110; III. 335
Darwin, Charles, I. [note 1]
Davie, Adam, I. [93]
Davies, Sir John, II. 34
Daye, John, II. 47
Decker, Thomas, I. [281], [note 454]
De Foe, II. 307, 402-410; III. 169
Delille, James, III. 21
Denham, Sir John, II. 185-188
Denmark, I. [34], [35]
Dennis, John, II. 331
Descartes, II. 149, 233; III. 333
Dickens, Charles, III. 85, 100; his novels,
187-221
Domesday Book, I. [104], [note 149], [note 150],
[note 175]
Donne, John, I. [note 372], [note 373], [note 374], [241]; II. 35
Dorat, C. J., III. 16, 140
Dorset, Earl of (Charles Sackville), II.
179, 180
Drake, Admiral, I. [note 273]
Drake, Dr. Nathan, I. [note 274], [note 275], [note 278]
[note 284], [note 329], [note 404], [note 508]
Drama, formation of the, I. [291] seq.
Drayton, Michael, I. [204], [note 330], [note 346]; II. 34
Drummond, William, II. 100
Dryden, John, I. [18]; II. 100; his comedies,
153-157, 184; his life and writings,
II. 222-272, 332; III. 5, 329
Dudevant, Madame (George Sand), III.
207
Dunstan, St., I. [36]
Durer, Albert, II. 9, 10
Dyer, Sir Edward, I. [note 325]
Earle, John, I. [246]
Eddas, the Scandinavian, I. [42]; III.
123, 124
Edgeworth, Maria, III. 253
Edward VI, II. 28
Edwy and Elgiva, story of, I. [38], [note 32]
Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary A.
England, climate of, I. [33]
English Constitution, formation of the,
I. [105]
Elizabeth, Queen, I. [175], [245], [270]
Elwin, Whitwell, III. 5 seq.
Erigena, John Scotus, I. [64], [note 89], [69]
Esménard, Joseph Alphonse, I. [note 256]
Essex, Robert, Earl of, I. [270], [273]
Etheredge, Sir George, II. 137, 158
Evans, Mary A. (George Eliot), III. 85,
179, 185
Eyck, Van, I. [151]
Falkland, Lord, I. [245]
Farnese, Pietro Luigi, II. 6
Farquhar, George, II. 188, 209
Faust, III. 47
Feltham, Owen, I. [246]
Fenn, Sir John, I. [note 267]
Ferguson, Dr. Adam, II. 304; III. 271
Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, III. 15, 16
Feudalism, the protection and character
of, I. [73]
Fichte, III. 335
Fielding, Henry, I. 319; II. 135, 434-433,
450
Fitmore, Sir Robert, II. 305
Finsborough, Battle of, an Anglo-Saxon
poem, I. [54]
Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, I.
[275]; II. 26
Flemish artists, I. [170], [178]
Fletcher, Giles, II. 34
Fletcher, John, I. [291], [307]; II. 45, 100
Ford, John, I. [291], [297], [312]; II. 248
Fortescue, Sir John, I. [113], [note 171]
Fox, Charles James, II. 276, 311, 315 seq.
Fox, George, II. 52, 58, 133
Fox, John, II. 13 seq.
Francis of Assisi, I. [161]
Freeman, Edward A., I. [note 98]
Frisians, the, I. [32], [33]
Froissart, I. [83], [102], [126], [127]
[132], [note 195], [note 255]
Froude, J. A., I. [note 149], [note 411]; II. 15 seq.
Fuller, Thomas, I. [318], [note 513]
Gaimar, Geoffroy, I. [76], [92]
Gainsborough, Thomas, landscape painter,
II. 220
Garrick, David, II. 444, 448
Gaskell, Mrs. Elisabeth C., III. 85, 185
Gay, John, II. 211, 279; III. 4. 29-32
Geoffrey of Monmouth, I. [note 130]
German ideas, introduction of, in Europe
and England, III; 328 seq.
Germany, drinking habits in, II. 7
Gibbon, Edward, II. 444
Gladstone, William Ewart, III. 274
Glencoe, Massacre of, III. 302 seq.
Glover, Richard, III. 37
Godwin, William, II. 95
Goethe, I. [6], [18], [note 441], [note 708];
II. 111, 118, 430; III. 48, 74, 125-131, 327 seq.
Goldsmith, Oliver, II. 211, 307, 440-443
Goltzius, I. [196]
Gower, John, I. [90], [163], [note 127]
Grammont, Count de, II. 135, 169, 170
Gray, Thomas, III. 36
Greene, Robert, I. [206], [note 301], [note 333], [281],
[note 340], [306]
Grenville, George, II. 310
Gresset, J. B. Lewis, III. 16
Grey, Lady Jane, I. [180], [270]
Grostete, Robert, I. [90], [93]
Grote, George, III. 185
Guicciardini, Ludovic, I. [173]
Guido, I. [16]
Guizot, I. [note 155]; III. 276, 282, 305
Guy of Warwick, I. [77], [note 143]
Habington, William, I. [240]
Hakluyt, Richard, I. [246]
Hale, Sir Matthew, II. 16
Hales, John, I. [245]; II. 35, 37, 301
Halifax, Charles, Montague, Earl of, II.
329, 334. 361, 366
Hall, Bishop, Joseph, I. [246]; II. 35
Hallam, Henry, I. [118]; III. 276
Hamilton, Anthony, II. 136 seq.
Hamilton, Sir William, III. 185
Hampden, John, III. 276
Hampole, I. [93]
Hardyng, John, I. [269]
Harrington, Sir John, I. [237]
Harrison, William, I. [173]
Hastings, Warren, II. 317; III. 272, 285
seq., 291
Hawes, Stephen, I. [165]
Hegel, I. [18], [note 244]; II. 271, 331 seq.
Heine, I. [2], [note 10], [360]; III. 39, 48, 74, 87
Hemling, Hans, I. [170]
Henry Beauclerk, I. [76]
Henry of Huntingdon, I. [36], [note 24], [note 34], [note 35], [76]
Henry VIII and his Court, I. [269]; II. 15
Herbert, George, I. [240]
Herbert, Lord, I. [246]
Herder, John Godfrey von, I. [6]
Herrick, Robert, I. [204], [238], [note 371]
Hertford, Earl of, I. [note 402]
Hervey, Lord, III. 26
Heywood, Mrs. Eliza, III. 18
Heywood, John, I. [186], [280], [note 425], [note 488]
Hill, Aaron, III. 8
History, philosophy of. See the Introduction,
passim.
Hobbes, Thomas, II. 147-152, 250
Hogarth, William, II. 450-453; III. 18
Holinslied's Chronicles, I. [176], [246], [275]
Holland, I. [31]
Homer and Spenser, I. [217]
Hooker, Richard, I. [245]; II. 35 seq.
Horn, Ring, romance of, I. [77], [100]
Hoveden, John, I. [90]
Howard, John, II. 320
Howe, John, III. 299
Hugo, Victor, I. [2], [note 263], [note 606]; II. 270; III. 74, 87
Hume, David, II. 304, 440; III. 294, 352
Hunter, William, martyrdom of, II.
31, 32
Hutcheson, Francis, II. 304, 320; III. 271
Iceland and its legends, I. [35], [42]
Independency in the sixteenth century,
II. 49 seq., 90
Industry, British, in the nineteenth century,
III. 165 seq.
Irish, the ancient, I. [38]
Italian writings and ideas, taste for, in
sixteenth century, I. [181], [182]; vices of
the Italian Renaissance, II. 3-7
James I and his Court, I. [237]
James II, III. 282
Jewell, Bishop, I. [277]
Johnson, Samuel, I. [319]; II. 303, 321, 444-453;
III. 10, 38, 345
Joinville, Sire de, I. [83]
Jones, Inigo, I. [note 276], [321]
Jones, Sir William, II. 444
Jonson, Ben, I. [note 282], [208], [note 394], [note 398], [280], [note 520];
II. 100; III. 155; sketch of his life, I. [318]; his
learning, style, etc., [321]; his
dramas, [327]; his comedies, [333];
compared with Molière, [345]; fanciful
comedies and smaller poems, [345]
Jordaens, Jacob, I. [178]
Jowett, Benjamin, III. 100, 334
Judith, poem of, I. [60], [61]
Junius, Letters of, II. 311 seq.; III. 106
Jutes, the, and their country, I. [31]
Keats, John, III. 130
Kemble, John M., I. [note 26], [note 35], [note 39], [note 58], [note 59]
[note 63], [note 77]
Knighton, Henry, I. [note 186]
Knolles, Richard, I. [246]
Knox, John, II. 8, 28; III. 354
Kyd, Thomas, I. [280]
Lackland, John, I. [102]
LaHarpe, III. 345
Lamartine, I. 2; III. 74, 87
Lamb, Charles, III. 73, 76
Languet, Hubert, I. [194]
Latimer, Bishop, I. [109]; II. 17, 27 seq.
Lanfranc, first Norman Archbishop of
Canterbury, I. [76]
Langtoft, Peter, I. [90]
Laud, Archbishop, II. 38; III. 287
Lavergne, Léonce de, I. [note 15]
Law, William, II. 303
Layamon, I. [92], [note 131]
Lebrun, Ponce Denis Econchard, I. [163], [note 256]
Lee, Nathaniel, II. 241
Leibnitz, III. 23
Leighton, Dr. Alexander, II. 49, 88
Lely, Sir Peter, II. 320
Leo X, Pope, II. 4
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, I. [4]
Lingard, Dr. John, I. [note 18], [note 21], [note 30], [note 32], [note 148]
Locke, John, II. 71, 300, 303 seq., 320
Lockhart, John Gibson, III. 78 seq.
Lodge, Thomas, I. [204], [280]
Lombard, Peter, I. [157], [note 245]
Loménie de Brienne, Cardinal, III. 311
London in Henry VIII's time, I. [173;]
in the present day, III. 164
Longchamps, William, I. [97]
Longus, Greek romance-writer, I. [209]
Lorris, Guillaume de, I. [84], [95]
Loyola, I. [161], [171]; III. 273
Ludlow, Edmund, II. 51
Lulli, a renowned Italian composer, II.
233
Lully, Raymond; I. [161]
Luther, Martin, I. [26], [171]; II. 3-7; and the
Reformation, [7]
Lydgate, John, I. [158], [163], [164], [note 257], [165], [note 259]
Lyly, John, I. [note 287], [192], [194]
Lyly, William, I. [180]
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (Lord),
III. 100; his works, 267-307
Machiavelli, I. [183]
Mackenzie, Henry, III. 35, 51
Mackintosh, Sir James, III. 276
Macpherson, James, III. 36
Malcolm, Sir John, III. 78
Malherbe, Francis de, III. 329
Malte-brun, Conrad, I. [note 8]
Mandeville, Bernard, II. 303
Manners of the people in the sixteenth
century, I. [178]
Marguerite of Navarre, I. [132]
Marlborough, Duchess of, III. 26
Marlborough, Duke of, II. 275, 307; III.
259
Marlowe, Christopher, I. [211], [note 344], [280], [note 429],
[note 433], [note 344], [note 442], [note 445],
[note 446], [note 447], [note 449], [note 452]; III. 73;
his dramas, I. [282]
Marston, John, I. [320]
Martyr, Peter, II. 23
Martyrs in the reign of Mary, II. 30-34
Marvell, Andrew, II. 254
Masques, under James I, I. [177], [348]
Massillon, II. 28
Massinger, Philip, I. [note 400], [280], [note 424], [note 459], [note 460],
[note 462], [297]
Maundeville, Sir John, I. [91], [note 128], [note 129], [note 130], [102]
May, Thomas, II. 57
Medici, Lorenzo de, I. [182]
Melanchthon, Philip, II. 13, 23
Merlin, I. [77], [note 124]
Meung, Jean de, I. [93], [162]
Michelet, Jules, I. [4], [note 71]; III. 325
Middleton, Thomas, I. [note 401], [273], [277], [291], [note 458]
Mill, John Stuart, III. 100, 176, 360-408
Milton, John, I. [62], [note 86], [215], [245]; II. 71-84; his
prose writings, 84-100; his poetry, 100-128,
347, 348; III. 272
Molière, I. [note 347], [note 348], [note 489], [note 563],

[note 608], [361]; II. 188 seq., 418;
III. 214
Mommsen, Theodor, I. [note 3]
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, II. 424;
III. 8, 15
Montesquieu, Ch., I. [note 4], [25]
Moore, Thomas, II. 440; III. 75 seq., 138
More, Sir Thomas, I. [246], [275]
Müller, Max, III. 361
Muller, Ottfried, I. [6]
Murray, John, III. 78, 138, 140
Musset, Alfred de, I. [2], [199], [note 426], [note 427], [note 459], [note 523], [358];
II. 267; III. 39, 74, 87, 430 seq.
Nash, Thomas, I. [281]
Nayler, James, II. 53, 57
Neal's History of the Puritans, II. 53, 88
Newcastle, Duchess of (Margaret Lucas),
II. 187
Newspaper, first daily, III. 44
Newton, Sir Isaac, II. 289, 301
Nicole, Peter, II. 283
Norman Conquest, the, I. [71], [72], [73]; its
effects on the national language and
literature, [87], [123]; III. 151
Normans, the character of, I. [74]; how
they became French, [75]; their taste
and architecture, [75]; their literature,
chivalry, and success, [76]; their position
and tyranny in England, [87]; III.
152
Nott, Dr. John, I. [191]
Novel, the English—its characteristics,
II. 402 seq.; the modern school of novelists,
III. 185 seq.
Nut-brown Maid, the—an ancient ballad,
I. [note 192]
Oates, Titus, II. 257
Occam, William, I. [161]
Occleve, Thomas, I. [163]
Ochin, Bernard, II. 23
Oliphant, Mrs., II. 424
Olivers, Thomas, II. 290
Orrery, Earl of, III. 8
Otway, Thomas, II. 241, 248
Ouseley, Sir William, III. 78
Overbury, Sir Thomas, I. [note 192], [246]
Owen, John, II. 58
Paganism of poetry and painting in
Italy in the sixteenth century, I. [181]
Paley, William, II. 300
Palgrave, Sir Francis, I. [note 13], [note 344]
Parnell, Dr. Thomas, III. 4
Pascal, III. 300, 400; III. 25, 306
Pastoral poetry, I. [204]
Peele, George, I. [280]
Penn, William, II. 288; III. 299
Pepys, Samuel, II. 142, 143, 146
Percy, Thomas, III. 73
Petrarch, I. [126], [185], [163]
Philips, Ambrose, III. 4
Philosophy and history, III. 308 seq.
Philosophy and poetry, connection of,
I. [157]
Picts, I. [38]
Pickering, Dr. Gilbert, II. 223
Piers Plowman's Crede, I. [122]
Piers Ploughman, Vision of, I. [120]
[185]
Pitt, William, first Earl of Chatham, II.
276, 310 seq.; III. 275
Pitt, William (second son of the preceding),
II. 311, 217 seq.; III. 65
Pleiad, the, I. [18]
Pluche, Abbé, II. 342
Poe, Edgar Allan, II. 405
Pope, Alexander, II. 252, 328, 332, 381;
III. 5-28, 112, 117, 28O
Prayer-book, English, II. 23-27
Preaching at the Reformation period,
II. 27
Presbyterians and Independents in the
sixteenth century, II. 49 seq., 90
Price, Dr. Richard, II. 304, 321; III. 271
Priestly, Dr., III. 66
Prior, Matthew, III. 4, 28
Proclus, I. [note 5], [note 244]
Prynne, William, II. 57
Pulci, an Italian painter, I. [182]
Pultock, Robert, II. 438
Purchas, Samuel, I. [246]
Puritans, the, II. 45 seq., 132 seq.
Puttenham, George, I. [185], [note 294], [246]
Pym, John, III. 276
Quarles, Francis, I. [240], [note 371]
Rabelais, I. [149], [222], [note 360], [265], [366]; II. 144, 388,
438
Racine, I. [371]; II. 224, 284; III. 218, 306
Raleigh, Sir Walter, I. [214], [246], [273]; II, 34
Rapin, II. 224
Ray, John, II. 303
Reformation in England made way for
by the Saxon character and the situation
of the Norman Church, I. [122],
[165]; II. 7 seq.
Reid, Thomas, II. 304, 320, 440
Renaissance, the English; manners of
the time, I. [169]; the theatre its
original product, [264]
Renan, Ernest, I. [note 3], [note 194]
Restoration, period of the, in England,
II. 131 seq., 209
Revolution, period of the, in England,
II. 273 seq.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, II. 220, 320, 444
Richard Cœur de Lion, I. [101]
Richardson, Samuel, II. 135, 303, 412-424,
444; III. 8, 35
Ridley, Nicholas, II. 30
Ritson, Joseph, I. [note 157], [note 159], [note 162], [note 164]
Robert of Brunne, I. [93]
Robert of Gloucester, I. [93]
Robertson, Dr. William, II. 440; III. 3,
38, 352
Robespierre, II. 284
Robin Hood ballads, I. [109], [178], [185]
Rochester, Earl of (John Wilmot), II.
143 seq., 184, 337; III. 28, 140
Rogers, John, martyrdom of, II. 31
Rogers, Samuel, III. 112
Roland, Song of, I. [77], [81]
Rollo, a Norse leader, I. [74]
Ronsard, Peter de, I. [18]
Roscellinus, I. [160]
Roscommon, Earl of, II. 184
Roses, wars of the, I. [114], [124], [169], [287]
Rotheland, Hugh de, I. [90]
Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste, III. 22
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, II. 447; III. 16, 34
Royer-Collard, Pierre-Paul, III. 392
Rubens, I. [151], [177], [178], [232], [366]; III. 27
Rückert, III. 74
Russel, Lord William, II. 141
Sacheverell, Dr., II. 273, 306
Sacy, Lemaistre de, II. 22
Sadeler, I. [196]
Sainte-Beuve, I. [6]
St. John. See Bolingbroke, Lord
Saint-Simon, I. [3]; III. 217
St. Theresa, I. [161]
Saintré, Jehan de, I. [102]
Sand, George. See Dudevant, Madame
Savage, Richard, III. 18
Sawtré, William, I. [124]
Saxons, the, I. [31]; characteristics of
the race, [71]; contrast with the Normans,
[74], [75]; their endurance, [103];
their invasion of England, III. 151, 152
Scaliger, III. 345
Schelling, I. [22]
Schiller, III. 48, 74, 87
Scotland in the seventeenth century, II.
134
Scott, Sir Walter, I. [4]; II. 222, 361 seq.,
440; III. 74, 105, 107, 260; his novels and
poems, 78-85
Scotus, Duns, I. [159]
Scudéry, Mademoiselle de, I. [195]
Sedley, Sir Charles, I. [240]; II. 179
Selden, John, I. [246]
Seres, William, II. 47
Settle, Elkanah, II. 225, 240
Sévigné, Madame de, III. 15, 306
Shadwell, Thomas, II. 157, 240, 261
Shaftesbury, Anthony Cooper, third
Earl of, II. 304
Shakespeare, William, I. [note 169], [note 274], [186], [note 301], [note 308],
[206], [note 331], [245]
[280]; II. 230, 238 seq.; III. 155; general
idea of, I. [350]; his life and character,
[354]; his style, [366], and manners,
[372]; his dramatis personæ,
[377]; his men of wit, [382], and
women, [386]; his villains, [391], [392];
the principal characters in his plays,
[393]; fancy, imagination—ideas of
existence—love; harmony between the
artist and his work, [407]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, III. 74, 95-100, 130
Shenstone, William, III. 37
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, II. 212 seq.,
311, 440
Sherlock, Bishop, II. 292, 301, 412
Shirley, James, I. [280]; II. 153
Sidney, Algernon, I. [245]; II. 71, 141
Sidney, Sir Phillip, I. [186], [194], [245],
[266]; II. 39; III. 155
Skelton, John, I. [165]
Smart, Christopher, III. 37
Smith, Adam, II. 304, 320
Smith, Sidney, II. 282; III. 100
Smollett, Tobias, II. 308, 433-437, 440
Society in Great Britain in the present
day, III. 169 seq.; in England and in
France, 430 seq.
South, Dr. Robert, II. 292, 295
Southern, Thomas, II. 241
Southey, Robert, II. 438; III. 72, 76, 134,
287
Speed, John, I. [246]
Spelman, Sir Henry, I. [246]
Spencer, Herbert, III. 185
Spencer, Edmund, I. [186], [207], [213],[245];
II. 71, 110; his life, character and
poetry, I. [214]; II. 236; III. 155, 424
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, III. 100, 334
Steele, Sir Richard, II. 311, 327; III. 259
Stendhal, Count de, I. [25], [note 214], [note 471], [note 487]
Sterling, John, III. 309 seq.
Sterne, Laurence, II. 437-440; III. 35
Stewart, Dugald, II. 320, 440; III. 61
Stillingfleet, Bishop, II. 292, 301
Stowe, John, I. [246]
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of,
III. 276 seq.
Strafford, William, I. [172]
Strype, John, I. [268]
Stubbes, John, I. [note 277], [179], [note 285]
Suckling, Sir John, I. [238], [note 371]; II. 181
Sue, Eugène, III. 220
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, I. [185];
II. 16
Swift, Jonathan, II. 135. 224, 303, 311, 327
seq.; III. 259, 288; sketch of his life, II.
360-368; his wit, 368-371; his pamphlets,
371-379; his poetry, 380-389; his philosophy,
etc., 389-401
Taillefer, I. [79], [89]
Tasso, I. [222], [note 360], [note 366], [note 512]
Taylor, Jeremy, I. [246]; II. 35, 38, 44
Temple, Sir William, II. 173, 365, 389;
III. 3, 272
Teniers, David, III. 83
Tennyson, Alfred, III. 100, 185, 410-438
Thackeray, William M. III. 85, 100; his
novels, 223-265
Theatre, the, in the sixteenth century, I.
[264]; after the Restoration, II. 153-155,
188 seq., 226 seq.
Thibaut of Champagne, I. [84]
Thierry, Augustin, I. [4], [note 20], [note 69], [note 99], [note 118],
[note 119], [note 120], [note 157], [note 178]; III. 305
Thiers, Louis Adolphe, III. 282, 305
Thomson, James, III. 32-35
Thorpe, John, I. [note 46], [note 48], [note 50], [note 66], [note 72], [note 83], [note 87]
Tickell, Thomas, III. 4
Tillotson, Archbishop, II. 292 seq.
Tindal, Matthew, II. 303
Titian, I. [236], [note 600], [366]
Tocqueville, Alexis de, I. [note 3]
Toland, John, II. 303
Toleration Act, the, III. 298, 299, 300
Tomkins, Thomas, II. 32
Townley, James, II. 220
Turner, Sharon, I. [note 9], [note 28], [note 32], [note 34], [note 35], [note 56],
[note 65], [note 66], [note 67], [note 28],
[note 79], [note 81], [note 95],[54]
Tutchin, John, III. 18
Tyndale, William, II. 19 seq., 28, 47
Urfé, Honoré d', I. [note 311], [315]
Usher, James, I. [246]
Vanbrugh, Sir John, II. 187-209
Vane, Sir Harry, II. 143
Vega, Lope de, I. [161], [279]; II. 155
Village feasts of sixteenth century described,
I. [178]
Villehardouin, a French chronicler, I.
[83], [102]
Vinci, Leonardo da, I. [16]
Voltaire, I. [16]; II. 447; III. 22, 137, 346
Vos, Martin de, I. [196]
Wace, Robert, I. [76], [78], [note 106], [note 108], [89], [note 130], [note 131]
Waller, Edmund, I. [240]; II. 71, 153, 181-184;
III. 3
Walpole, Horace, III. 15
Walpole, Sir Robert, II. 274, 280
Walton, Isaac, I. [246]
Warburton, Bishop, II. 303
Warner, William, I. [212]
Warton, Thomas, I. [note 96], [note 122], [note 124], [note 126], [note 127], [note 135], [note 137],
[note 145], [note 146], [note 147], [note 252], [note 259], [note 287]; III. 73
Watt, James, II. 320
Watteau, Anthony, III. 14
Watts, Isaac, III. 37
Webster, John, I. [291], [297]; II. 248
Wesley, John, II. 280-291
Wetherell, Elizabeth, III. 179
Wharton, Lord, III. 26
Whitfield, George, II. 289-230
Wiclif, John, I. [123], [286]; II. 15
Wilkes, John, II. 310
William III, II. 173
Wither, George, II. 35
William of Malmesbury, I. [75]
William the Conqueror, I. [78]
Windham, William, II. 311
Witenagemote, the, I. [46]
Wollastom William Hyde, III. 271
Wolsey, Cardinal, I. [165]; II. 16
Wordsworth, William, III. 73, 88-95
Wortley, Lady Mary. See Montagu
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, I. [185], [180], [187]
Wycherley, William, I. [18]; II. 157-167,
178, 187, 188, 202, 250, 337
Yonge, Charlotte Mary, III. 179
Young, Arthur, II. 320
Young, Edward, III. 37