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English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History

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Addison, Joseph, 258. Akenside, Mark, 351. Alcuin, 40. Aldhelm, Abbot, 40. Alfred the Great, 42. Alfric, surnamed Germanicus, 40. Alison, Sir Archibald, 447. Alured of Rievaux, 49. Arbuthnot, John, 252. Arnold, Matthew, 438. Arnold, Thomas, 448. Ascham, Roger, 103. Ashmole, Elias, 232. Aubrey, John, 232. Austen, Jane, 411.

Bacon, Francis, 156. Bacon, Roger, 59. Bailey, Philip James, 437. Baillie, Joanna, 368. Barbauld, Anne Letitia, 359. Barbour, John, 89. Barclay, Robert, 228. Barham, Richard Harris, 437. Barklay, Alexander, 102. Barrow, Isaac, 230. Baxter, Richard, 226. Beattie, James, 356. Beaumont, Francis, 154. Beckford, William, 412. Bede the Venerable, 37. Benoit, 52. Berkeley, George, 278. Blair, Hugh, 369. Blind Harry, 89. Bolingbroke, Viscount, (Henry St. John,) 278. Boswell, James, 321. Browne, Sir Thomas, 225. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 432. Browning, Robert, 434. Buchanan, George, 126. Buckle, Henry Thomas, 447. Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton, 450. Bunyan, John, 228. Burke, Edmund, 369. Burnet, Gilbert, 231. Burney, Frances, 368. Burns, Robert, 397. Burton, Robert, 125. Butler, Samuel, 198. Byron, Rt. Hon. George Gordon, 384

Caedmon, 34. Cambrensis, Giraldus, 49. Camden, William, 126. Campbell, Thomas, 401. Carlyle, Thomas, 444. Cavendish, George, 102. Caxton, William, 92. Chapman, George, 127. Chatterton, Thomas, 340. Chaucer, Geoffrey, 60. Chillingworth, William, 222. Coleridge, Hartley, 427. Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 427. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 424. Collier, John Payne, 153. Collins, William, 357. Colman, George, 366. Colman, George, (The Younger,) 366. Congreve, William, 236. Cornwall, Barry, 436. Colton, Charles, 205. Coverdale, Miles, 170. Cowley, Abraham, 195. Cowper, William, 353. Crabbe, George, 400. Cumberland, Richard, 363. Cunningham, Allan, 412.

Daniel, Samuel, 127. Davenant, Sir William, 205. Davies, Sir John, 127. Defoe, Daniel, 282. Dekker, Thomas, 154. De Quincey, Thomas, 468. Dickens, Charles, 452. Dixon, William Hepworth, 449. Donne, John, 127. Drayton, Michael, 127. Dryden, John, 207. Dunbar, William, 90. Dunstan, (called Saint,) 41.

Eadmer, 49. Edgeworth, Maria, 410. Erigena, John Scotus, 40. Etherege, Sir George, 238. Evelyn, John, 231.

Falconer, William, 357. Farquhar, George, 238. Ferrier, Mary, 411. Fielding, Henry, 288. Fisher, John, 102. Florence of Worcester, 49. Foote, Samuel, 363. Ford, John, 154. Fox, George, 226. Froissart, Sire Jean, 58. Fronde, James Anthony, 448. Fuller, Thomas, 224.

Gaimar, Geoffrey, 52. Garrick, David, 361. Gay, John, 252. Geoffrey, 52. Geoffrey of Monmouth, 48. Gibbon, Edward, 317 Gillies, John, 441. Goldsmith, Oliver, 301. Gowen, John, 86. Gray, Thomas, 351. Greene, Robert, 136. Greville, Sir Fulke, 127. Grostête, Robert, 59. Grote, George, 440.

Hakluyt, Richard, 126. Hall, Joseph, 221. Hallam, Henry, 448. Harvey, Gabriel, 110. Heber, Reginald, 436. Hemans, Mrs. Felicia Dorothea, 409. Henry of Huntingdon, 49. Hennyson, Robert, 90. Herbert, George, 203. Herrick, Robert, 204. Heywood, John, 131. Higden, Ralph, 50. Hobbes, Thomas, 125. Hogg, James, 412. Hollinshed, Raphael, 126. Hood, Thomas, 467. Hooker, Richard, 125. Hope, Thomas, 412. Hume, David, 311. Hunt, Leigh, 411. Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 205.

Ingelow, Jean, 437. Ingulphus, Abbot of Croyland, 49. Ireland, Samuel, 153.

James I, (of Scotland,) 89. Johnson, Doctor Samuel, 324. Jonson, Ben, 153. Junius, 331.

Keats, John, 407. Keble, John, 437. Knowles, James Sheridan, 436. Kyd, Thomas, 136.

Lamb, Charles, 466. Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 410. Langland, 56. Latimer, Hugh, 102. Layamon, 53. Lee, Nathaniel, 240. Leland, John, 102. Lingard, John, 446. Locke, John, 231. Lodge, Thomas, 135. Luc de la Barre, 52. Lydgate, John, 90. Lyly, John, 136.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 441. Mackay, Charles, 437. Mackenzie, Henry, 307. Macpherson, Doctor James, 336. Mahon, Lord, 447. Mandevil, Sir John, 58. Manning, Robert, 59. Marlowe, Christopher, 134. Marston, John, 136. Massinger, 154. Matthew of Westminster, 49. Mestre, Thomas, 32. Milton, John, 174. Mitford, William, 444. Moore, Thomas, 390. More, Hannah, 367. More, Sir Thomas, 99.

Napier. Sir William Francis Patrick, 447. Nash, Thomas, 136. Newton, Sir Isaac, 278. Norton, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth, 410.

Occleve, Thomas, 89. Ormulum, 54. Otway, Thomas, 239.

Paley, William, 370. Paris, Matthew, 49. Parnell, Thomas, 252. Pecock, Reginald, 102. Peele, George, 136. Penn, William, 227. Pepys, Samuel, 232. Percy, Dr. Thomas, (Bishop,) 358. Philip de Than, 52. Pollok, Robert, 411. Pope, Alexander, 241. Prior, Matthew, 251. Purchas, Samuel, 126.

Quarles, Francis, 203.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 126. Richard I., (Cœur de Lion,) 52.

Richardson, Samuel, 285. Robert of Gloucester, 55. Robertson, William, 315. Roger de Hovedin, 49. Rogers, Samuel, 403. Roscoe, William, 413. Rowe, Nicholas, 240.

Sackville, Thomas, 127. Scott, Sir Michael, 59. Scott, Walter, 371. Shakspeare, William, 137. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 405. Shenstone, William, 357. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 364. Sherlock, William, 230. Shirley, 154. Sidney, Sir Philip, 107. Skelton, John, 95. Smollett, Tobias George, 292. South, Robert, 230. Southern, Thomas, 240. Southey, Robert, 421. Spencer, Edmund, 104. Steele, Sir Richard, 264. Sterne, Lawrence, 296. Still, John, 132. Stillingfleet, Edward, 230. Stow, John, 126. Strickland, Agnes, 447. Suckling, Sir John, 204. Surrey, Earl of, 98. Swift, Jonathan, 268. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 437.

Tailor, Robert, 136. Taylor, Jeremy, 223. Temple, Sir William, 277. Tennyson, Alfred, 428. Thackeray, Anne E., 465. Thackeray, William Makepeace, 459. Thirlwall, Connop, 441. Thomas of Ercildoun, 59. Thomson, James, 347. Tickell, Thomas, 252. Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 437. Turner, Sharon, 448. Tusser, Thomas, 102. Tyndale, William, 169. Tytler, Patrick Frazer, 446.

Udall, Nicholas, 132.

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 237. Vaughan, Henry, 205. Vitalis, Ordericus, 49.

Wace, Richard, 51. Waller, Edmund, 204. Walpole, Horace, 321. Walton, Izaak, 202. Warton, Joseph, 368. Warton, Thomas, 368. Watts, Isaac, 252.

Webster, 154. White, Henry Kirke, 358. Wiclif, John, 77. William of Jumièges, 49. William of Malmsbury, 47. William of Poictiers, 49. Wither, George, 203. Wolcot, John, 367. Wordsworth, William, 415. Wyat, Sir Thomas, 97. Wycherley, William, 235.

Young, Edward, 253.

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