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ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS
Queen Anne and the Georges
BY
DONALD G. MITCHELL
NEW YORK Charles Scribner's Sons MDCCCXCVII
Copyright, 1895, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS
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I. from Celt to Tudor II. From Elizabeth to Anne III. Queen Anne and the Georges IV. The Later Georges to Victoria
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LETTER OF DEDICATION
[To Mrs. Grover Cleveland.]
MY DEAR MADAM:
Many bookmakers of that early Georgian period covered by this little volume eagerly sought to dignify their opening pages with the name and titles of some high-placed patron or patroness. It is not, my dear Madam, to revive this practice that I have asked permission to inscribe this little book to so worthy an occupant of the Presidential Mansion; but, rather, I have had in mind the courteous reception which—while yet an inmate of a college on the beautiful banks of Cayuga Lake—you once gave to some portions of the literary talk embodied in these pages; and remembering, furthermore, the unswerving dignity, and the unabating womanly gentleness by which you have conquered and adorned the trying conditions of a high career, I have wished to add my applause (as I do now and here) for the grace and kindliness which have ennobled your life, and made us all proud of such an example of American womanhood.
Very respectfully yours, Dond. G. Mitchell.
Edgewood, June, 1895.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE An Irish Bishop, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Scholar, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Two Doctors, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Lady Wortley Montagu, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Alexander Pope, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 His Poetic Methods, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Rape of the Lock, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Pope's Homer, and Life at Twickenham, . . . . . . . . . . 43 His Last Days, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CHAPTER II.
From Stuart to Brunswick, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Samuel, Richardson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Harry Fielding, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Poet of the Seasons, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Thomas Gray, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 A Courtier, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Young Mr. Johnson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
CHAPTER III.
Johnson and Rasselas, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Painter and the Club, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Some Old Club-Men, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Mr. Boswell, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Gibbon, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Oliver Goldsmith, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 The Thrales and the End, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
CHAPTER IV.
A Scottish Historian, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 A Pair of Poets, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Miss Burney, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Hannah More, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
CHAPTER V.
King George III., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Two Orators, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 An Orator and Playwright, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 The Boy Chatterton, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Laurence Sterne, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
CHAPTER VI.
Macpherson and other Scots, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 George Crabbe, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 William Cowper, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 His Later Life, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
CHAPTER VII.
Parson White, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 A Hampshire Novelist, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Old Juvenilia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Miss Edgeworth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Some Early Romanticism, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Vathek, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Robert Burns, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
CHAPTER VIII.
A Banker Poet, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Coleridge, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Charles Lamb, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Wordsworth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 His Poems, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
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