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MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY
Shirley, and the end of the Old Drama
Giles Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher
Other Religious Poets :-Quarles; Herbert; Herrick; Crashaw
Cartwright; Randolph; Corbet
Poets of the French School :-Carew ; Lovelace ; Suckling
Denham
Cleveland
Wither
Browne (William)
Prose Writers :- Charles I. .
Milton's Prose Works .
Hales; Chillingworth .
Jeremy Taylor
Fuller.
Feltham's Resolves :-Microcosmography
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir James Harrington
Newspapers
Classical Learning
Retrospect of the Commonwealth Literature
Poetry of Milton.
Cowley
Butler
Waller
Marvel
Other Minor Poets
Dryden
Dramatists.
Prose Writers:- Clarendon
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Hobbes
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Nevile
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Other Prose Writers :-Cudworth; More; Burrow; Bunyan ; &c. 117
Progress of Science in England before the Seventeenth Century 121
English Science in the Seventeenth Century.—Bacon ; Napier 128
Other English Mathematicians of the earlier part of the Seven-
teenth Century
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Harvey;—The Circulation of the Blood — Anatomy, &c.
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Natural Philosophy
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The Royal Society
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The Steam Engine
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Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental
Science
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Newton
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James Gregory, and other Contemporaries of Newton
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Establishment of the Royal Observatory
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Medical Science, and Natural History .
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THE CENTURY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
First effects of the Revolution of 1688
Surviving Writers of the preceding Period
Bishop Burnet
Thomas Burnet
Other Theological Writers :—Tillotson ; South .
Locke
Writers on Political Economy
Boyle and Bentley Controversy
Swift .
Pope :
Addison and Steele
Shaftesbury
Mandeville.
Gay; Arbuthnot; Atterbury
Prior; Parnell
Bolingbroke
Garth ; Blackmore
Defoe.
Dramatic Writers
Minor Poets
Collins; Shenstone; Gray
Young; Thomson
Armstrong; Akenside ; Wilkie; Glover
Scottish Poetry
The Novelists Richardson; Fielding; Smollett
Sterne
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AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION-continued.
Goldsmith .
Churchill
Falconer; Beattie ; Anstey; J. H.
Stevenson ;
Mason
The Wartons ; Percy ; Chatterton; Macpherson
Female Writers
Periodical Essayists
Political Writing :-Wilkes; Junius
Johnson
Burke.
Metaphysical and Ethical Writers
Historical Writers :—Hume; Robertson ; Gibbon
Political Economy; Theology ; Criticism and Belles Lettres .
Progress of Science
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THE LATTER PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 351
Cowper
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Darwin
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Anna Seward ; Lady Miller; The Della Cruscans
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The Shakespeare Papers
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The Pursuits of Literature
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Other Satirical Poetry :- Mason ; The Rolliad ; Probationary Odes ;
Peter Pindar
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Other Poetical Writers of the latter part of the Eighteenth Century 395
Burns
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Remaining Literature of the Eighteenth Century .
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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Scott,
THE LAST AGE OF THE GEORGES.
Wordsworth
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Coleridge
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Southey,
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Crabbe ; Campbell; Moore .
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Byron
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Shelley
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Keats
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Hunt
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Other Poetical Writers of the earlier part of the Nineteenth Century 511
Prose Literature
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THE VICTORIAN AGE
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INDEX
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SPECIMENS.
VOL. II.
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Bishop Corbet :-Iter Boreale; Field of Bosworth
Warwick Landlady
Dignified Clergyman
Carew :Song
Lovelace :—To Althea, from Prison
Suckling :-The Wedding
Cleveland :—The General Eclipse
Epitaph on Ben Jonson
Eulogy on Jonson
Elegy on Jonson
Charles I.
The Rebel Scot; Commencement
Definition of a Protector
On 0. P. Sick
Wither :- The Shepherd's Hunting; Praise of Poetry
Abuses Stript and Whipt; Oxford .
The Court
Trust in the Future
Amygdala Britannica ; Prophecy.
Songs and Hymns; Thanksgiving for Seasonable Weather
Thanksgiving for Victory
W. Browne :-Britannia’s Pastorals ; “ Never Love, except thou be
beloved”.
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Trees characterized
Charles I. :—Majesty in Misery
Fuller :—Worthies ; Design of the Work
Leather ; Osterly House ; London ; Needles
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
Philemon Holland .
Holy State and Profane State; The Good Soldier
The Good Sea Captain
Bishop Ridley.
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