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THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
LAYAMON :
King Arthur's Last Battle............
ORMIN :
Origin of the Ormulum............
.............19
How to Spell...............................
The Author of the Ormulum... ..........................22
..........21
THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE :
The Author, his Travels, and his Book.
WILLIAM LANGLEY (or LANGLAND) :
The Deadly Sin of Gluttony...................
How the Poor dined Five Centuries ago.......................
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.30
GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
The Knight .........
The Squire...........
The Monk .........................
Emily on a May Morning............
The Cock, Chanticleer..............
The Cock and the Fox..........
........
..............34
................35
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
SIR JOHN FORTESCCE :
Of Absolute and Limited Monarchy...
WILLIAM DUNBAR :
The Golden Targe.....
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SIR THOMAS MORE :
King Richard the Third............
..............53
Utopian Contempt of Gold............
...............57
BISHOP Hugh LATIMER :
The Preacher and the Ploughman.........
Better Days for the Humbler Classes .........
ROGER ASCHAM:
The Right Man for the Right Place.....
Schoolmasters and Horse-Trainers.
...............73
JOHN LYLY (or LILLY):
A Cooling Card for Fond Lovers............. .............
The Commonwealth of Bees................. .....................76
Cupid and Campaspe........... ....................................80
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY :
Description of Arcadia..........
Verse not essential to Poetry........
ROBERT GREENE :
The Description of Silvestro's Lady............
The Shepherd's Wife's Song..........
...........
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE:
Tamburlaine...
............. 88
...89
.97
Tamburlaine at Zenocrate's Death-bed.
Death-scene of Edward II.........
...91
Hero..............
..........................................
EDMUND SPENSER :
The Knight of the Redcross.........
Combat (The Redcross Knight and a Saracen) .....
Una among the Satyrs ... ... ... ......
............................
Spenser's Bride...................................................... 105
The Sunshine of a Smile................
............. 107
RICHARD HOOKER:
Church Music..........
...........108
98
100
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
.............1
.
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE :
Hotspur and his Prisoners ....
113
A Double Robbery Planned.
A Double Robbery Executed............... ................ 123
Falstaff's Valour......
............. 127
Murder Relenting ........................
............ 132
The End of All....................
137
Ingratitude...............
................138
Immortality in the Poet's Verse.............. ...............139
FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS :
Moral Advantages of Learning.......... ..............140
Of the Character of Henry VII. ......
.143
Of Studies .....
...............145
Of Adversity ...............
.................147
BEN JONSON :
Captain Bobadill's Valour..........
......150
A Meeting of Conspirators...........
,155
Song to Celia..........
........................... 160
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke.
Jottings from Ben's Note-book ......
On Shakspeare..
On Lord Bacon.
BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR :
Terrors of the Judgment ............
...165
JOHN MILTON :
Epitaph on Shakspeare ............
......171
The Humiliations of Licensing ..........
.........172
Sonnet to the Lord-General Cromwell......
182
Satan..........
.184
Pandemonium............
.189
A Battle Scene.................
.............
192
A Foul Night...............
194
A Fair Morning...............
............................196
ABRAHAM COWLEY :
Lot's Wife.................
.........197
The Grasshopper...........
198
Two Views of Oliver Cromwell.
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON :
Admiral Robert Blake..
Encounter with Van Tromp............
Capture of the Spanish West India Fleet............... 213
The Crowning Victory .................
215
Death, Burial, and Character.....
...199
.210
.211
217
THE NEWER ENGLISH.
JOHN DRYDEN :
Antony and Ventidius...............
Antony and Ventidius............................................
Zimri : Duke of Buckingham............... ...............231
On Translation (I.)....
............... ..232
On Translation (II.).....
.............. 240
.221
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
JOSEPH ADDISON :
In Westminster Abbey........
.244
General Respect for Sir Roger...........
.249
ALEXANDER POPE :
The Rape of the Lock.................
............... 256
Belinda at the Toilet....................
Belinda on the Thames................
257
The Lock Severed ...............
259
Address to Bolingbroke ................
............... ..262
Satirical Character of Addison.............. ...................264
JONATHAN SWIFT :
In Gulliver's Pockets............
...............266
HENRY ST JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE :
The True Use of History..........
........272
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