INDEX
Reading edition
Addison, Joseph, 96, 128
Aeneid, 159
Alice in Wonderland, 228
All the Year Round, 18
American Notes, 17, 52
American Senator, The, 220
Antony and Cleopatra, 93
Arabian Nights, 41, 170, 187
Ariosto, Lodovico, 158
Aristophanes, 158
Aristotle, 42, 84, 139, 191, 226
Arnold, Matthew, 74, 100, 121, 161
Art of Fiction, The, James’, 81
Ashley, Lord (Lord Shaftesbury), 172, 174, 192
Aurelius, Marcus, 131
Austen, Jane, 31, 71, 164, 179, 200, 233
Autobiography, Trollope’s, 219, 221
Bacon, Francis, 4, 107
Bagehot, Walter, 114
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, 104
Balzac, Honoré de, 34, 135, 138, 219, 230
Barchester Towers, 220, 225
Barnaby Rudge, 52, 55
Barnes, William, 119
Barry Lyndon, 125, 126, 147
Battle of Life, The, 18
Beerbohm, Max, 149, 160
Belton Estate, The, 219
Bentham, Jeremy, 73
Berkeley, Bishop George, 128
Blackwood’s Magazine, 204
Blake, William, 128, 159
Bleak House, 11, 12, 33, 55, 69, 89
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 70
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 197
Book of Snobs, The, 125
Boswell, James, 201
Boule de Suif, 139
Bright, John, 183
Brontë, Anne, 211, 222
Brontë, Branwell, 201
Brontë, Charlotte, 72, 201, 211, 212, 222
Brontë, Emily, 201, 211, 222
Brookfield, William Henry, 106
Browne, Sir Thomas, 112, 197
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 161, 167, 170, 204
Browning, Robert, 7, 21, 100, 128, 161
Brunetière, Ferdinand, 24
Bryant, William Cullen, 17
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 7
Bunyan, John, 71, 197, 225
Burke, Edmund, 4, 21, 22, 128, 149, 183, 197
Burney, Fanny, 164
Burns, Robert, 66, 128, 222
Butler, Samuel, 84, 85
Byron, Lord, 66, 128, 160, 226
Campion, Thomas, 19
Canning, George, 107, 183
Carlyle, Mrs., 10
Carlyle, Thomas, 7, 10, 21, 40, 74, 93, 107, 124, 128, 176, 177, 223, 226
Carols, 18
Carroll, Lewis, 78
Casa Guidi Windows, 161
Catherine, 125
Catullus, 222
Cervantes, Miguel de, 91
Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 167
Chapman, Frederic, 83
Chapman, Robert William, 200
Charles I, 4
Charlotte Augusta, Princess, 110
Chatham, Earl of, 183
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 8, 20, 66, 67, 98, 158
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 10, 33
Childe Harold, 66
Chimes, The, 18
Christmas Carol, A, 18
Cicero, 183
City Churchyards, The, Dickens’ essay on, 96
Clarendon, Earl of, 197
Clark, Sir Charles, 110
Claverings, The, 219
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 74, 132, 161
Cobbett, William, 68, 171, 231
Cochrane, Alexander Baillie, 193
Codlingsby, 188
Colenso, Bishop, 73
Coleridge, Hartley, 30
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 21, 56, 77, 128
Collins, Wilkie, 13, 127, 224
Comedy of Errors, The, 53
Compleat Angler, The, 71
Congreve, William, 222
Coningsby, 117, 193, 194–196, 208, 223
Conington, John, 123
Constitutional, The, 102
Coriolanus, 158
Cornhill Magazine, 212, 223
Country Life, 230
Cousin Phillis, 212–216
Coverly, Sir Roger de, in The Spectator, 71
Cowper, William, 107, 124, 128
Cox, Harold, 167
Crabbe, George, 107, 159, 204
Cranford, 126, 199, 200, 202, 203, 210, 212, 213
Cricket on the Hearth, The, 18
Croker, John Wilson, 192
Cry of the Children, The, 161, 168, 169
Dana, Richard Henry, 17
Dante, 28, 91, 134, 158
Darwin, Charles, 7, 73
David Copperfield, 52, 54, 67, 75, 76, 90, 93–97, 129, 228, 229
Defoe, Daniel, 49, 78, 163, 196
Denis Duval, 147
De Quincey, Thomas, 5, 38
Deserted Village, The, 159
Dickens, Charles, 3–99, 125–127, 129–141, 176, 210, 222, 223, 226, 228, 229, 230
Dictionary of National Biography, 203
Dinner at Poplar Walk, A, 5
Diocletian, 197
Disraeli, Benjamin, 116, 170, 171, 180–198, 206, 208, 210, 217, 222–224
Divina Commedia, 11
Dobson, Austin, 146
Dombey and Son, 11, 39, 42, 44, 69
Donne, John, 21
Don Quixote, 228
Dostoievsky, Feodor, 75
Dream, The, Byron’s, 66
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 142
Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions, 18
Dr. Thorne, 220
Dryden, John, 8, 20, 24, 25, 66, 128, 159, 197
Dumas, Alexandre, the elder, 24, 53, 54, 146, 196
Dunciad, The, 128, 129
Eclogues, Virgil’s, 159
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, 222
Eliot, George, 7, 72, 211, 222
Endymion, Disraeli’s, 195, 210, 217
English Mail Coach, The, 38
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 27
Esmond, 96, 122, 123, 146, 147, 149, 152–156
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 26, 159
Essay on Man, An, 159
Essays of Elia, The, 57
Eustace Diamonds, The, 219
Evelyn, John, 71
Ferrex and Porrex, 213
Fielding, Henry, 20, 71, 95, 139, 163, 179
FitzGerald, Edward, 106, 108, 122
Flaubert, Gustave, 12, 138, 221
Forster, John, 12, 13, 15, 16, 51, 59, 86, 89
Fox, Charles James, 183
Framley Parsonage, 220, 223, 229
Gaskell, Mrs., 179, 199–218
Gaskell, William, 199, 203, 205
Gastibelza, 227
Gay, John, 128
Georgics, 214
Gibbon, Edward, 21, 128, 197
Gissing, George, 12, 13, 96, 97
Gladstone, William Ewart, 183
Golden Lion of Grandpré, The, 220
Goldsmith, Oliver, 128
Gray, Thomas, 222
Great Expectations, 31, 74, 93
Greuze, Jean Baptiste, 140
Greville, Fulke, 41
Hallam, Arthur, 107
Hamlet, 49, 81, 144, 163
Hammond, John Lawrence, 172, 191
Hammond, Mrs., 172, 191
Handel, Georg Friedrich, 26
Handley Cross, 37, 68
Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 191, 206
Hard Times, 211
Hardy, Thomas, 31, 140, 229
Harrison, Frederic, 230
Hastings, Warren, 4
Haunted Man, The, 18
Hazlitt, William, 30, 78, 129
Heine, Heinrich, 227
Hemans, Mrs., 168
Henley, William Ernest, 9, 48, 134, 142
Hertford, Marquis of, 117
Higgins, Matthew James, 129
History of Civilisation in Europe, 7
History of English Prose Rhythm, Saintsbury’s, 150–151
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, 17
Holly-Tree Inn, The, 18
Holy Tide, The, 19
Homer, 110, 139, 144, 217
Hood, Thomas, 161
Horace, 123, 124, 135, 158
Horner, Leonard, 178
Household Words, 13, 18, 211, 212
Howitt, Mrs., 204
Howlett, John, 191
Hugo, Victor, 227
Hunt, Leigh, 10, 89, 90
Hunter, Sir William, 109
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 7, 73
Infernal Marriage, The, 181, 182
Inge, William Ralph, 63, 64
Irving, Washington, 17
James, Henry, 40, 76, 81–83, 225, 232
Jefferies, Richard, 132
John Inglesant, 39
Johnson, Samuel, 21, 26, 37, 97, 101, 103, 110, 126, 128
Jonathan Wild, 163
Jonson, Ben, 20, 27, 128, 141, 226
Keats, John, 21, 128, 159, 160, 213
King John, 158
Kinglake, Alexander William, 107
King Lear, 29, 46, 139
King on the Tower, The, 130
Kingsley, Charles, 7
Kipling, Rudyard, 9, 49, 112
Lady Audley’s Secret, 222
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, 161
Lamb, Charles, 5, 31, 57, 78, 107
Landor, Walter Savage, 89, 90, 128, 220
Last Chronicle of Barset, The, 220, 232
Lear, Edward, 78, 105
L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 168
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 144
Lewes, George Henry, 99
Life of Charles Dickens, Forster’s, 59
Life of Charlotte Brontë, 201, 203, 210–212
Life of Dr. Johnson, 201
Lincoln, Abraham, 183
Little Dorrit, 32, 43
London Magazine, 57
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 144
Longinus, 149
Lothair, 185, 186
Lycidas, 159
Lytton, Lord, 230
Macaulay, Lord, 172, 174, 183
Madame Bovary, 139
Malory, Sir Thomas, 196
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 167
Manners, Lord John, 193
Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, 132
Marlowe, Christopher, 21
Martin Chuzzlewit, 17, 23, 51–53, 54, 74
Martineau, James, 74, 132
Marvell, Andrew, 124
Mary Barton, 205–209, 211, 212
Marzials, Sir Frank T., 117
Maupassant, Guy de, 138
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 7
Measure for Measure, 91
Meredith, George, 137
Mérimée, Prosper, 138
Merivale, Herman, 117, 119, 131
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 30, 45, 46
Michelangelo, 26
Midsummer-Night’s Dream, A, 78, 149
Mill, John Stuart, 7
Milnes, Richard Monckton, 106, 107
Milton, John, 21, 66, 124, 127, 128, 136, 159, 212, 222
Molière, 28
Moll Flanders, 163
Moonstone, The, 224
Morning Chronicle, 37, 177
Morris, William, 162, 176
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The, 31, 200
National Standard, The, 102
Newcomes, The, 104
New Grub Street, The, 97
Newman, John Henry, 73, 74, 107, 132, 185
Nicholas Nickleby, 47, 52, 54
North and South, 210, 212
North British, 132
Odes, Horace’s, 123
Odyssey, 144
Old Curiosity Shop, The, 41, 52, 55, 95
Old Margate Hoy, The, 5
Old Squire, The, 70
Oliver Twist, 47, 54, 61, 88, 91
Omar Khayyam, 199
On Letts’s Diary, 109
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, 124
Othello, 49
Ouida (Louise de la Ramée), 222, 228
Our Mutual Friend, 42, 54
Palmerston, Viscount, 183
Paradise Lost, 159
Paris Sketch Book, 133
Peacock, Thomas Love, 220
Peel, Sir Robert, 181, 183, 194, 196, 197
Pendennis, 44, 120–122, 129
Perils of Certain English Prisoners, The, 13, 77
Petrarch, 158
Philip, 103, 135
Pickwick Papers, The, 8, 11, 37, 44, 46, 52, 68, 77, 125, 126
Piers Plowman, 158
Pindar, 200, 220
Pitt, William, 183
Plato, 183, 222
Poe, Edgar Allan, 228
Poetics, Aristotle’s, 139
Poor Robin’s Almanack, 19
Pope, Alexander, 21, 66, 128, 159
Porter, George Richardson, 177
Prescott, William Hickling, 17
Prior, Matthew, 124
Prisoner, The, 201, 202
Progress of the Nation from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, 177
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, 67
Punch, 220
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 62–65, 100, 122
Rasselas, 126
Reade, Charles, 58
Redgauntlet, 67
Reine Margot, La, 24
Republic, The, Plato’s, 222
Richardson, Samuel, 163, 179
Ritchie, Lady, 101
Ritchie, Mrs., 110
Robert Ellesmere, 39
Robertson, Thomas William, 45
Robinson Crusoe, 49, 163
Romola, 75
Ronsard, Pierre de, 158
Rose and the Ring, The, 105
Roundabout Papers, 96, 109, 122, 123, 133, 138, 147
Rovers, The, 107
Roxana, 163
Ruskin, John, 7, 107, 128, 176
Russell, Lord John, 183
Ruth, 211
Sadler, Michael, 172–174
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 121
Saintsbury, George, 76, 78, 150–152
Santayana, George, 55, 79
Scott, Sir Walter, 17, 21, 66, 128, 140, 148, 163, 164, 179, 197, 230
Sevastopol, 138
Seymour, Robert, 83
Shabby Genteel Story, A, 133
Shaftesbury, Lord, 172, 175, 193
Shakespeare, Sir Richmond, 110
Shakespeare, William, 8, 21–23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 43, 45, 49, 50, 53, 57, 66, 67, 81, 83, 91, 100, 101, 114, 128, 149, 158, 217, 222
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 21, 106, 128, 160, 176
Shenstone, William, 68
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 4, 128, 183
Sidney, Algernon, 4
Sketches by Boz, 5
Small House at Alington, The, 220
Smollett, Tobias, 164
Smythe, George (Viscount Strangford), 193, 194
Socrates, 4, 183
Song of the Shirt, 161
Spedding, James, 107, 108
Spencer, Herbert, 184
Spenser, Edmund, 158
Stanley, Dean, 8
Steele, Richard, 96, 128
Stendhal, 138
Sterne, Laurence, 133
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 77, 121, 128, 142, 220
Strangford, Viscount, 193
Surtees, Robert Smith, 37
Swift, Jonathan, 107, 128, 133
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 99, 162
Sybil, 189, 195, 196, 208, 224
Sylvia’s Lovers, 212
Tale of Two Cities, A, 45
Tancred, 184, 195
Tartuffe, 139
Tarzan of the Apes, 92
Tasso, Torquato, 21, 27, 66
Taylor, Jeremy, 131
Tempest, The, 81
Temple, Sir William, 71
Tennyson, Frederick, 19
Tennyson, Lord, 7, 105, 106, 122, 128, 161, 222
Tertullian, 197
Thackeray, Mrs., 103
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 7, 43, 66, 96, 100–157, 187, 223, 230
Thackerays in India and some Calcutta Graves, The, 109
Theocritus, 158, 214
Thompson, Francis, 189
Thomson, Hugh, 199
Three Musketeers, The, 24
Timber, or Discoveries, 27
Times, The, 230
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 39, 75, 99, 138, 149
Tom Brown’s School Days, 38, 131
Tom Jones, 139
To Mr. Lawrence, 124
To the Lady Margaret Ley, 124
Town Labourer, 1760–1832, The, 191
Treasure Island, 142
Tristram Shandy, 126, 163, 200
Troilus and Cressida, 57
Trollope, Anthony, 54, 141, 148, 211, 219–234
Turgueniev, Ivan, 138
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 41
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, 23, 91
Uhland, Johann Ludwig, 130
Uncommercial Traveller, The, 96
Vanity Fair, 117, 122, 125, 141, 146, 147, 151
Venables, George Stovin, 117, 133
Venus and Adonis, 114
Vicar of Wakefield, The, 163
Vicomte de Bragelonne, Le, 24
Victorian Age, The, Inge’s, 63
Villette, 201
Villon, François, 158
Virgil, 27, 91, 158, 159, 214
Virginians, The, 147, 149
Vivian Grey, 182, 185
Walpole, Horace, 164
Walton, Izaak, 197
Wapping Workhouse, Dickens’ essay on, 96
War and Peace, 39, 138, 149
Ward, Sir Adolphus, 203, 204, 208, 209
Warden, The, 220, 226
Way of All Flesh, The, 84, 86
Way We Live Now, The, 220
Wee Willie Winkie, 112
Wells, Herbert George, 43
Wharton, Edith, 15
Whewell, William, 122
Whibley, Charles, 122
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 221
Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, 73
Wives and Daughters, 212
Woman in White, The, 224
Woodlanders, The, 140
Wordsworth, William, 128
World, The, 127
Wreck of the “Golden Mary,” The, 18
Wuthering Heights, 201
Xenophanes, 82
Yates, Edmund, 127
Young Duke, The, 181
Zola, Emile, 230