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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

CHARLES D. CLEVELAND,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of

Pennsylvania.

STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO.
PHILADELPHIA.

COLLINS, PRINTER.

PREFACE.

ENCOURAGED by the favorable manner in which the first edition of the “English Literature of the Nineteenth Century" was received, I felt it to be no less a duty than a pleasure to do all I could to improve it when it should be published in a permanent form. Accordingly, since the first appearance of the work, I have given not only the chief portion of my own time, aside from my schoolduties, to further reading and investigations in relation to the subject, but have been much benefited by the counsels of a few literary friends, whose kindness I would hereby gratefully acknowledge. If they see that I have not in all cases adopted their suggestions, I am sure they will be quite ready to concede to me that independence of thought and action which they would claim for themselves. I have also courteously received from many of the living authors directions where I could obtain fuller information concerning their own lives and publications, and thus have corrected a few errors in the first edition.

Twenty-seven new authors will be found in the present edition; namely, Thomas Haynes Bayly, Thomas Carlyle, Hartley Coleridge, George Croly, Allan Cunningham, Sir Humphry Davy, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Dick, Maria Edgeworth, Augustus Hare, Charles Julius Hare, James Hogg, Leigh Hunt, John Keble, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Mackay, Richard Monckton Milnes, David Macbeth Moir, John Moultrie, Mungo Park, Bryan Waller

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Proctor, James Smith, Caroline Anne Southey, Jane Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, Alaric Watts, John Wolcot.

As in the former, so in this edition, some may not find a favorite author noticed, nor favorite pieces of many whose names do appear; but they who can best estimate the nature of such a labor, and the embarrassment which must have been constantly felt from the very richness and variety of the materials, will be the most ready to make all allowance for any errors of omission or of commission. But one thing I can truly say,—I have endeavored to represent the views and feelings of every author inserted, fairly and honestly; and where any one has shown that his heart was particularly and deeply interested in any one great subject, I have felt it my duty, without fear or favor, to let his views on that subject appear.

In conclusion, I have only to say that I can wish no greater favor shown to this work than the "Compendium" has received; and having taken every pains to make it as perfect as I could,— not to please any clique or sect, or to favor any particular latitude or special market, but to promote the cause of sound learning and education in harmony with pure Christian morals, the best interests of humanity, and the cause of universal truth, I now commit it to the judgment of an intelligent public.

PHILADELPHIA, July 4, 1853.

CHARLES D. Cleveland.

NOTE. In this second impression from the stereotype plates I have corrected three or four errors detected in the first, and made some additions to the biographical sketches of Herbert Knowles, Lætitia E. Maclean, (L. E. L.,) Lant Carpenter, Amelia Opie, John Keble, and Caroline Anne Southey.

March, 1854.

C. D. C.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS.

ALISON, ARCHIBALD.

PAGE

...... 356 CROLy, George......................

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632

ARNOLD, THOMAS................. 386 CUMBERLAND, RICHARD......... 90
Baillie, Joanna................... 545 CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN................................ 399
Barbauld, Anna LETITIA.... 166
Barton, BernarD............... 494
BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES....... 367
BEATTIE, JAMES.........................
BLAIR, HUGH.........................................
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT............ 137
BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE....... 527
BROUGHAM, HENRY (LORD).... 769
BROWN, THOMAS......................
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BAR-

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DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY................................... 201
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS............ 748
DICK, THOMAS..............
.... 575
40 DRAKE, NATHAN...................................... 338
29 DYMOND, JONATHAN.............. 195
EDGEWORTH, MARIA............. 486
ELLIOTT, EBENEZER.............. 502
ERSKINE, THOMAS................ 143
FOSTER, JOHN......................................
GRAHAME, JAMES................. 96
GURNEY, JOSEPH JOHN.......... 470
HALL, ROBERT........................................................ 212
HARE, AUGUSTUS................. 706
HARE, CHARLES JULIUS......... 706

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670

419

BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON......... 345
BUTLER, CHARLES............................................ 245
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON........ 155
CAMPBELL, THOMAS.............. 424 HAZLITT, WILLIAM............... 205
CARLYLE, THOMAS................ 661 HEBER, REGINALD............... 180
CARPENTER, LANT................ 379 HEMANS, FELICIA................. 326

CARTER, ELIZABETH......... .... 57 HOGG, JAMES.......................
CHALMERS, THOMAS.............. 464 HOOD, THOMAS..........................

CHAPONE, HESTER..........................

35 HOWITT, MARY........

321

440

753

COLERIDGE, HARTLEY............ 683 HoWITT, WILLIAM............... 760

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR... 292 HUNT, LEIGH...........

COOK, ELIZA.......

CRABBE, GEORGE.......................

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478

SMITH, HORACE...........................
SMITH, JAMES........
SMITH, SYDNEY..................................................... 448
SOUTHEY, CAROLINE ANNE...... 765
SOUTHEY, ROBERT................ 404
TAYLOR, JANE....................
TENNYSON, ALFRED............... 649
TIGHE, MARY.........
86
TUPPER, MARTIN F.............. 715
WARREN, SAMUEL................ 697

149

MACKAY, CHARLES............... 701
MACKENZIE, HENRY.............. 220
MACKINTOSH, JAMES............. 263
MACLEAN, LETITIA ELIZABETH 360
MANT, RICHARD.................
MILMAN, HENRY HART......... 627
MILNES, RICHARD M............ 724
MITCHELL, THOMAS............... 436
MOIR, DAVID M................. 552 WARTON, JOSEPH................. 17
MONTAGU, ELIZABETH........... 24 WATTS, ALARIC............................. 732
MONTGOMERY, JAMES............................ 593 WHATELY, RICHARD............. 674
MOORE, THOMAS................... 564 WHITE, HENRY KIRKE.......... 70
MORE, HANNAH................................................... 271 WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM........ 286
MOULTRIE, JOHN.................. 688 WILSON, JOHN..........
WOLCOT, JOHN.........................
614 WOLFE, CHARLES.................. 131

NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH 656

OPIE, AMELIA..............
PALEY, WILLIAM........

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606

....... 110

50 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM........ 532

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