[CHAPTER THIRD]
[The Revolution]
[SECTION I.—The Moral Revolution] 273
[SECTION II.—Brutality Of The People.—Private Morals.—Chesterfield and Gay] 273
[SECTION III.—Principles of Civilization in France and England] 281
[SECTION IV.—Religion] 286
[SECTION V.—The Pulpit] 292
[SECTION VI.—Theology] 300
[SECTION VII.—The Constitution.—Locke's Theory of Government] 305
[SECTION VIII.—Parliamentary Orators] 311
[SECTION IX.—Doctrines of the French Revolution Contrasted with the Conservative
Tendencies of the English People] 320
[CHAPTER FOURTH]
[Addison]
[SECTION I.—The Significance of the Writings of Addison and Swift] 327
[SECTION II.—Addison's Character and Education] 327
[SECTION III.—Addison's Seriousness.—His Nobility of Character] 333
[SECTION IV.—The Morality of Addison's Essays] 336
[SECTION V.—How Addison made Morality Fashionable.—Characteristics of his Style] 344
[SECTION VI.—Addison's Gallantry.—His Humor.—Sir Roger de Coverley.—The Vision of Mirza] 349
[CHAPTER FIFTH]
[Swift]
[SECTION I.—Concerning Swift's Life and Character] 360
[SECTION II.—Swift's Prosaic and Positive Mind] 368
[SECTION III.—Swift as a Political Pamphleteer] 371
[SECTION IV.—Swift as a Humorist.—As a Poet] 380
[SECTION V.—Swift as a Narrator and Philosopher] 389
[CHAPTER SIXTH]
[The Novelists]
[SECTION I.—The Anti-Romantic Novel] 402
[SECTION II.—Daniel De Foe] 402
[SECTION III.—The Evolution of the Eighteenth Century Novel] 410
[SECTION IV.—Samuel Richardson] 412
[SECTION V.—Henry Fielding] 424
[SECTION VI.—Tobias Smollett] 433
[SECTION VII.—Laurence Sterne] 437
[SECTION VIII.—Oliver Goldsmith] 440
[SECTION IX.—Samuel Johnson] 444
[SECTION X.—William Hogarth] 450