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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 Ancren Riwle, the, 76 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 34 Apollo Club, Ben Jonson's, 536 Arabs, Influence of the, 45-47 Arcades, Milton's, 555 Arcadia, 278, 279, 392-394, 629 Ariosto, 200, 279-281, 391, 449; tas- Arminius, 514, 738 Arthur, King, 7, 8, 30, 31, 61--64, 946 Ascham, Roger, 305-307, 35: Assembly of Foules, 119-121 Asser, 35, 36 Astrea, D'Urfe's, 629, 630 - Astrolabe, Chaucer on the, 155 Aungervyle, Richard, 93-97 Authority, Contest about the Limit of Avesbury, Robert of, 98 Ayenbite of Inwit, the, 108 Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 889 B Bacon, Francis, 381-383, 399, 432, Bailey, Philip James, 890 Baldwin, William, 337, 338 Bannatyne, George, 349 Barbauld, Anna Letitia, 886, 327 Barbour, John, 145, 146 Barclay, Alexander, 217, 218 Robert, 664, 665 Barrow, Isaac, 665, 666 Bartas, G. Saluste du, 379, 475-407, 475, 476 Bath, Athelard of, 45 Baxter, Richard, 612, 613, 664, 709, 726 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 883, 89z Bentham, Jeremy, 886-888 Berkeley, George, 792 Lord, 250 Bestiary, Metrical, 27, 76 Beveridge, William, 666, 667 Bible, the, 14, 17-21, 58, 74, 75, 137, 175, 194, 233-241, 249, 250, Bilney, Thomas, 248 Bishops' Bible, the, 347, 359 Blackfriars Theatre, 387 Blacklock, Thomas, 874 Blackmore, Sir Richard, 765, 766, 787, of, 656-658, 716 John Sheffield, Duke of, 669- Buckle, Henry Thomas, 893 Budgell, Eustace, 782 Bulwer, Lord Lytton, 888-895 Burke, Edmund, 867-869, 871, 872 Burley, Walter, 98 Burnet. Gilbert, 667, 758 Thomas, 761 Burney, Fanny (D'Arblay), £37 Burton, John Hill, 894 Bury, Richard of, 93-97 Butler, Joseph, 819 -, Samuel, 673-676 Byrhtnoth, the Death of, 37 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 801, Capgrave, John, 187, 188 Carew, Richard, 469, Thomas, 541. Carlyle, Thomas, 884, 888-894 Carter, Elizabeth, 886 Cartwright, William, 546 Cattraeth, Battle of, 5, 6 Cavendish, George, 247 Censorship of the Press, 431, 474, 581- 583; of the Stage, 828 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- Chrestien of Troyes, 64 Christis Kirk of the Green, 185 Chronicle, the Saxon, 34; Monastic, Compendious Book of Godly and Comus, 555-557. Confessio Amantis, 157-159 Congreve, William, 761, 762 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, 346 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 Ellwood, Thomas, 613 Essay on Man, Pope's, 815-819 Etherege, Sir George, 677, 697 Evelyn, John, 620, 653, 759, 750 -, Joseph of, 65, 66 F Fabyan, Robert, 220, 221 Faerie Queene, the, 397, 446-457 Falconer, William, 862 Falls of Princes, 184, 335, 337 Fame, House of, Chaucer's, 146, 147 Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 622 Flodden, 258 Florence of Worcester, 43 Florio, John, 468 Flower and the Leaf, the, 152 Flytings, 214, 242 Foote, Samuel, 863 Ford, John, 536 Fordun, John of, 99 Fortescue, Sir John, 189, 190 Frederick II., Emperor, 85, 86 Freeman, Edward Augustus, 801-895 |