On the Restoration period—from 1660 to 1700—see Professor Elton’s chapter (Vol. 9, pp. 628–631) in the article English Literature; and the articles: John Dryden (Vol. 8, p. 609), by William Minto and Margaret Bryant; Samuel Butler (Vol. 4, p. 885), Sir Isaac Newton (Vol. 19, p. 583), by H. M. Taylor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Isaac Barrow (Vol. 3, p. 440), John Ray (Vol. 22, p. 931), by Prof. D. Wentworth Thompson, University College, Dundee; Joseph Glanvill (Vol. 12, p. 77), Thomas Burnet (Vol. 4, p. 853), John Tillotson (Vol. 26, p. 976), Sir William Temple (Vol. 26, p. 602), by G. W. Prothero, editor The Quarterly Review and joint-editor Cambridge Modern History, Marquess Halifax (Vol. 12, p. 839), by P. C. Yorke; Robert South (Vol. 25, p. 463), William Sherlock (Vol. 24, p. 850), Richard Baxter (Vol. 3, p. 551), John Howe (Vol. 13, p. 835), George Fox (Vol. 10, p. 765), John Bunyan (Vol. 4, p. 803), by Lord Macaulay; 2nd Earl of Rochester (Vol. 23, p. 427), Sir William Davenant (Vol. 7, p. 851), Nahum Tate (Vol. 26, p. 449), Thomas Otway (Vol. 20, p. 376), Nathaniel Lee (Vol. 16, p. 361), Watts-Dunton’s article William Wycherley (Vol. 28, p. 863), and the two great diarists John Evelyn (Vol. 10, p. 5) and Samuel Pepys (Vol. 21, p. 130), by D. Hannay.
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On the 18th century literature see the chapter in the article English Literature (Vol. 9, pp. 631–636), by Thomas Seccombe, author of The Age of Johnson, etc.; and the articles: John Locke (Vol. 16, p. 844), by Prof. Alexander Campbell Fraser, Edinburgh; Joseph Addison (Vol. 1, p. 184), by William Spalding and Austin Dobson; Sir Richard Steele (Vol. 25, p. 865), by William Minto and Austin Dobson; Jonathan Swift (Vol. 26, p. 224), by Richard Garnett and Thomas Seccombe; John Arbuthnot (Vol. 2, p. 339), Bernard de Mandeville (Vol. 17, p. 559), by J. M. Mitchell; Bolingbroke (Vol. 4, p. 161), by P. C. Yorke; Alexander Pope (Vol. 22, p. 82), by William Minto and Margaret Bryant; Matthew Prior (Vol. 22, p. 359), by Austin Dobson; John Gay (Vol. 11, p. 540), Thomas Parnell (Vol. 20, p. 859), Mark Akenside (Vol. 1, p. 454), James Thomson (Vol. 26, p. 871) and Thomas Gray (Vol. 12, p. 392), both by D. C. Tovey, editor of Gray’s Letters; William Collins (Vol. 6, p. 692), by Edmund Gosse; Christopher Smart (Vol. 25, p. 249), William Cowper (Vol. 7, p. 349) and George Crabbe (Vol. 7, p. 358), by Clement K. Shorter, editor of The Sphere, William Blake (Vol. 4, p. 36), by J. W. Comyns-Carr, author of Essays on Art; William Shenstone (Vol. 24, p. 839), Thomas Chatterton (Vol. 6, p. 10), Thomas Percy (Vol. 21, p. 136), Thomas Warton (Vol. 28, p. 337), Robert Burns (Vol. 4, p. 856), by John Nichol, the biographer of Burns, Byron and Carlyle; among the prose writers, forerunners of the novel, Daniel Defoe (Vol. 7, p. 927), Samuel Richardson (Vol. 23, p. 300) and Henry Fielding (Vol. 10, p. 324), both by Austin Dobson, Tobias Smollett (Vol. 25, p. 278), by Thomas Seccombe, and Laurence Sterne (Vol. 25, p. 901), by William Minto and Austin Dobson; the other great prose writers of the age, |Johnson| Samuel Johnson (Vol. 15, p. 463), by Lord Macaulay and Thomas Seccombe, |Goldsmith| Oliver Goldsmith (Vol. 12, p. 214), by Lord Macaulay and Austin Dobson, Lord Chesterfield (Vol. 6, p. 109), by Austin Dobson, and Horatio Walpole (Vol. 28, p. 288), by W. P. Courtney; in a lesser group, James Boswell (Vol. 4, p. 297), by Thomas Seccombe, Frances D’Arblay, “Fanny Burney” (Vol. 7, p. 826), Hester Lynch Piozzi (Vol. 21, p. 632), Gilbert White (Vol. 28, p. 599); |History| the historians David Hume (Vol. 13, p. 876), by Robert Adamson and J. M. Mitchell, William Robertson (Vol. 23, p. 406) and Edward Gibbon (Vol. 11, p. 927), by Prof. J. B. Bury, editor of The Decline and Fall; and the philosophers, Joseph Butler (Vol. 4, p. 882), by Robert Adamson and A. J. Grieve, Yorkshire United Independent College, |Philosophy| William Paley (Vol. 20, p. 628), Berkeley (Vol. 3, p. 779), by Robert Adamson and J. M. Mitchell, Thomas Reid (Vol. 23, p. 51), by Prof. A. Seth Pringle-Pattison, Edinburgh, David Hartley (Vol. 13, p. 35), Abraham Tucker (Vol. 27, p. 361), Thomas Paine (Vol. 20, p. 456), Joseph Priestly (Vol. 22, p. 322), Richard Price (Vol. 22, p. 314), by J. M. Mitchell; William Godwin (Vol. 12, p. 177), |Politics| Sir James Mackintosh (Vol. 17, p. 259), Edmund Burke (Vol. 4, p. 824), by John Morley, and “Junius” (Vol. 15, p. 557),—see also Sir Philip Francis (Vol. 10, p. 941).
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