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It is entitled A Shakespearian Grammar. An Attempt to Illustrate some of the Differ: ences between Elizabethan and Modern English. For the Use of Schools. Price 6s. (Macmillan.) INDEX. Absalom and Achitophel, 715-719 Addison, Joseph, 753, 754-756, 769— Elfric, 37, 38 Aidan, 16 Aikin, Lucy, 89c Ailred of Rievaulx, 64 Ainsworth, William Harrison, 889, 8ǝ Alcestis in Chaucer, 111, 112, 148, 149 Aldhelm, 21 Alemanni, 288, 289 Alexander, King, Romances of, 77, 78 Alfred, King, 31-35 of Beverley, 48 Allegory, Development of, 46, 47, 87, 88, 119, 121, 211, 212, 215, 216, 218 Allegro, L', 553 Allen, Ralph, 820, 822, 833 Allingham, William, 892, 894 Amadis of Gaul, 281, 392 Amyot, Jacques, 379 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 34 Apollo Club, Ben Jonson's, 536 Arabs, Influence of the, 45-47 Arcades, Milton's, 555 Arminius, 514, 738 Arthur, King, 7, 8, 30, 31, 61-64, 446, Ascham, Roger, 305-307, 351 Assembly of Foules, 119-121 Asser, 35, 36 Astrea, D'Urfé's, 629, 630 Astrolabe, Chaucer on the, 155 Astrophel and Stella, 421, 422 Aungervyle, Richard, 93-97 Authority, Contest about the Limit of, Avesbury, Robert of, 98 Ayenbite of Inwit, the, 108 Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 889, Bath, Athelard of, 45 Bronte, Emily, 89r Baxter, Richard, 612, 613, 664, 709, 726 Brooke, Arthur, 350 Beaton, Cardinal, 277, 302, 303 Beattie, James, 862 Beaumont, Francis, 501-504 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 888, 892 Bede, 8, 22-24, 33 Berkeley, George, 790 Berners, Juliana, 187 Lord, 250 Bestiary, Metrical, 27, 76 Beveridge, William, 666, 667 Beverley, Alfred of, 48 Bible, the, 14, 17-21, 58, 74, 75, 137, 175, 194, 233-241, 249, 253-255, 343, 344, 347 Bilney, Thomas, 248 Bishops' Bible, the, 347, 359 Blacklock, Thomas, 874 250, Blackmore, Sir Richard, 765, 766, 787, Brooks, Charles Shirley, 893 - Robert, 882, 883, 889-894 Bruce, Barbour's, 145 Brunanburh, Battle of, 36, 37 Brunellus, 56 Brunne, Robert of, 92, 93, 101 Buchanan, George, 401-404 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke - John Sheffield, Duke of, 669- Buckle, Henry Thomas, 893 Bulwer, Lord Lytton, 888-895 Burke, Edmund, 867-869, 871, 872 Burnet, Gilbert, 667, 758 -, Thomas, 761 Burney, Fanny (D'Arblay), 887 Burns, Robert, 873-876 Burton, John Hill, 894 William, 508 Bury, Richard of, 93-97 Butler, Joseph, 819 Samuel, 673-676 Byrhtnoth, the Death of, 37 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 881, Censorship of the Press, 431, 474, 581- Centlivre, Susannah, 797 Chambers, Robert, 888, 889, 891-893 -- Chapman, George, 487, 488, 505, 506 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 108-112, 117-12), Chettle, Henry, 389, 436, 437 Chevy Chase, 208 Cheynell, Francis, 568 Child, Sir Josiah, 689 Chillingworth, William, 568 Chivalry, Romances of, 61-64, 279- 903 Compendious Book of Godly and. Comas, 555-557. Confessio Amantis, 157-159 Congreve, William, 761, 762 Constance, Council of, 172, 190 Constantinople, the Fall of, 192, 193 - Sir Robert, 507, 508 Court of Love, Chaucer's, 109, 111, 112 Courtier, Castiglione's, 354 Coverdale, Miles, 249, 253, 310, 314, Cowley, Abraham, 548, 623, 671-673 Cowper, William, 864-866 Crashaw, Richard, 547, 548 Cromwell's Bible, 254 Crowne, John, 679 Crusades, the, 55, 85-87 Cuckoo and Nightingale, the, 152 Cudworth, Ralph, 665, 740 Cumberland, Richard, 863 Cymry, the, 2, 3, 5, 8 |