A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper

• 178

MICHAEL DRAYTON.

JOSEPH HALL.

The Parting

170 His Meditatione..

201

Palace of the Fairies: Queen Mab's

A Red-breast coming into his Chamber 202

Chariot, and her Journey... 170 Hearing Musio by Night..

202

The Sight of a great Library......... 202

BEN JONSON...........

172 The Happy Man....

203

Cupid

172 Burns's Opinion of Happiness, (note) 203

Hymn to Cynthia........

.. 173

Pleasure of Study and Contemplation 204

Prose Writings

..... 173

Directions for Writing well

.. 173 RICHARD LOVELACE ... ............ 205

Character of Lord Bacon.

GEORGE HERBERT..

...... 175

Concerning Detraction. ......... 175 THOMAS FULLER.

.... 207

His Character as a Poet.. ........ 176 llis various Works..

207

Sunday...

176 Miscellaneous Aphorisms. ......... 208

The Bosom Sin.......

.... 177

The Good Schoolmaster.............. 208

The Good Wife..

........ 210

THOMAS CAREW.

177 The Good Sea-captain.

........... 210

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers .. 178 On Travelling:

........ 211

Persuasions to Love..

180 How Heart's-ease first came. ....... 214

The Lamentation of David........... 180 The Captive Bee.....

...... 215

Fall of Ancient Empires..

181 The Night-Piece, to Julia. .... 215

The Primrose.

...... 216

WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTII........ 182

Upon a Child that Died. ....... 216

The Necessity of an Unadulterated Epitaph upon a Child............... 216

Seripture alone the Rule of Faith..... 164

The Sin of Duelling.

184 CATHERINE PHILIPS.

Extract from Dr. Beecher's Sermon on Against Pleasure.......

Whither shall I fly?.

Mercy tempering Justice.

188 On Content..

221

His Prose Works,

188 Lines from Burns and Thomson,

Extracts from the Enchiridion....... 188

The Praise of a Solitary Life......... 190 Lines from Shakspeare, (note).

222

On Sleep

191 The Miseries of a Man's Life.

223

On Spring

191 Dawn and Progress of Reason.

223

To his Lute.

191 What is Life?....

Lines on a Prayer-Book

193 The Grasshopper

226

Version of Twenty-third Psalm. ..... 194

Account of the Purple Island........ 195 The Pleasures of a Country Life..... 229

The Shepherd's Life.

.. 195

Character of Cromwell...

230

Envy .....

196

Decay of Human Greatness.

196 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT:

..... 231

Poet Laureate, what? (note).

231

WILLIAM HABINGTON.. ...... 197

Gondibert, its story....

.... 232

To Castara

198 Character and Love of Birtha........ 233

The Vanity of Avarice....

198 Song, “The Lark now leaves”....... 235

... 216

... 220

JOSEPH HALL..

199 MARGARET, DUCHESS OF

Flis Satires....

199 CASTLE

The Client and Lawyer..

NEW

... 236

236

199 Mirth and Melancholy.

The Domestic Tutor.

200 Mirth ....

Tho Rustic wishing to turn Soldier... 200 Melancholy..

The Fashionable Beau.....

201 On the Theme of Love..

His Prose Writings.

201 The Funeral of Calamity.

236

....237

238

JOHN MILTON...

.. 239 SAMUEL BUTLER

His chief Poetical Works

240 His Apparel.....

296

Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity 241 Butler's Prose-A Small Poet........ 296

Lycidas

2.13

Scene from Comus........ ..... 249 TIIOMAS BROWNE ...

298

Invocation to Light

252 His various Works.

298

Eve's Account of her Creation....... 253

Thoughts on Death and Immortality. 299

Evening in Paradise...

254 Pride ..

300

Rome

257 Soliloquies of the Old Philosopher and

Athens.....

257 the Young Lady, (note).

301

Samson's Lamentation for bis Blind- His Latinized English..

.... 302

ness...

258

Sonnet on his own Blindness. ....... 259 IZAAK WALTON

302

To Cyriack Skinner...

..... 200 Complete Angler..

303

To a Virtuous Young Lady.......... 260 Falconry, account of, (note).

303

His Prose Works...

200 Dialogue-Falconer

303

He consecrates his Powers to the Cause

Venator...........

305

of Truth-Studies and Preparation

Piscator...........

305

for his great work....

261 Piscator and Milk-woman

307

Argument for the Liberty of the Press 265 Exhortation to Contentment..

308

England and London.

266

Reform...

266 ROBERT LEIGHTON.

309

The Power of Truth.......

.. 267

Despise not the Least....

310

The Poet's Morning.

268 The Beasts within us...

.... 310

Symmons's Estimate of his Character 268 All Christians Preachers ... .......sil

Sir Egerton Brydges's Estimate ...... 268 Temperance

.... 311

The Heart the Great Regulator...... 311

EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLAREN- A Contracted Sphere no Security

DON

269

against Worldliness..

312

John Hampden.

270

Character of Charles I., (note)..

........ 270 ANNE KILLIGREW

312

Lord Falkland...

272 The Discontent....

312

SIR MATTHEW HALE.... .... 274 EDMUND WALLER..

314

Lord Erskine's Encomium, (note)..

.... 274

Panegyric to my Lord Protector ..... 815

Cowper's Encomium, (note).

274 Beauty and the Rose compared 316

To his Children-upon regulating their

conversation

275 | JOHN BUNYAN.....

..... 317

Cowper's Lines to Bunyan..

....... 317

ISAAC BARROW

278 His various Works.

........ 319

Duty of Bounty to the Poor.... 278 Pilgrim's Progress

319

The Structure of the Body a Proof of Macaulay's Eulogy, (note). ..... 320

Divine Wisdom

280 Christian in Doubting Castle

320

Guilt of making man Property, (note) 280

What is Wit?...

281 ROBERT BARCLAY

324

Knowledge a Source of Delight ...... 282

Practical Religion, (note)..

325

Dedication to Charles II.

...... 325

ANDREW MARVELL......

282 Against Titles of Honor............. 326

Bacon on Knowledge, (note)......... 282

Doleful Evils of the Press...

283 | ROBERT BOYLE.

328

Parody on Charles II.'s Speeches..... 284 Ilis Various Writings

320

Friendship of Marvell and Milton.... 285 The Study of Natural Philosophy fa-

Milton...

286

vorable to Religion..

330

His Poetry-The Emigrants

286 Discrimination necessary in Reading

The Nymph complaining for the Death

the Scriptures.

331

of her Fawn...

287

RICHARD BAXTER ..

332

OWEN FELLTHAM.

288 Experience of Human Character..... 333

We are Happy or Miserable by Com- Desire of Approbation

334

parison

289 Character of Sir Matthew Hale ...... 334

On Prayer

.......... 299

Theological Controversies..

336

Of Faith and Works................. 290

Sedulity and Diligence .......... 290 JOHN TILLOTSON

336

Content makes Rich

291

False and True Pleasure ...

337

Morning and Evening Prayer ..... 292

Evidence of a Creator in the Structure

of the World .....

337

SAMUEL BUTLER...

292 Education...

338

Macaulay's Character of the Puritans, Coleridge's Views of Education, (note) 338

(note)..

293 Formation of a Youthful Mind

338

Description of Hudibras............. 293 Worldly Influences

339

Hudibras's Logic

His Mathematics .........

295 HENRY VAUGHAN ........... 339

His Metaphysics.

295 Early Rising and Prayer ........... 340

896
396
397

ILENRY VAUGIIAN,

ANNE FINCH.....

Pleasures of the Country....

340 The Atheist and the Acorn

Responsibility of Authors and Pub Life's Progress...

lishers

341

MATTHEW PRIOR.

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE....

His Essay on Ancient and Modern ESTHER VANHOMRIGH.

Learning..

342

Ode to Spring

Pleasures of a Rural Life........ 343

Homer and Virgil compared ......... 343 LADY RACHEL RUSSELL

Against excessive Grief

344 Letter to Dr. Fitzwilliam.

899

... 348

346 GEORGE SEWELL-...

401

His various Works.

346

Verses in Anticipation of his own Death 402

Estimate of his Character.

347

Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Anne Kil- SIR RICHARD STEELE........

402

legrew

His Claims to be considered the Father

On Milton ......

........... 349 of Periodical Writings.

403

Veni Creator Spiritus

.... 349 The Dream

404

Enjoyment of the Present Hour re- The Death of his Father...

405

commended

350 The Strength of True Love..... 405

His Prose Works.

351

The Blind restored to Sight. ..... 407

Shakspeare....

....... 352

Ben Jonson

....... 352 DANIEL DE FOE..

410

Chancer and Cowley......

353 His various Works

410

The Heathen-Reason and Revelation 354 Robinson Crusoe discovers the Foot

print......

JOHN LOCKE .

356

His various Works...

357 | JOHN GAY .......

414

Practice and Habit..

357 The Bull and the Mastiff

.... 414

Injudicious Haste in Study

369 The Hare and many Friends... 415

Importance of Moral Education ...... 360 His Prose Works..

416

The Right Improvement of History. 360 The Village Lovers...

416

The Schoolmaster, (note).

360

Orthodoxy and Heresy ...... 361 BARTON BOOTH..

418

Duty of Preserving Health

362 Sweet are the charms of her I love... 418

ROBERT SOUTH ..

362 JOHN ARBUTHNOT...

419

The Will for the Deed.

363 Know Yourself

420

Covetousness

364

The Glory of the Clergy..

365 ELIZABETH ROWE.

422

The Pleasures of Amusement and In-

The Eye of Conscience.

366 The true Art of enjoying Life........ 425

From the Hermit.

367 On Novelty......

426

Story on which the “Hermit” is

368 On the Death of Addison....

369 | RICHARD BENTLEY

Preface to his Maxims.

370

Authority of Reason in Religion ·

Advice to his Children..

Beginning of a Fox-Hunt.

Commencement of the Tatler, (note).. 375 Lines addressed to Addison.

Spectator 375

Guardian ..... 376 JONATHAN SWIFT

On Shakspeare

377 Wood's Half-Pence..

Bickerstaff's learning Fencing

378

Country Hospitality..

On the Use of the Fan..

378 The Spider and the Bee.....

The Lover's Leap

381 Partridge's Death foretold

Dissection of a Beau's lead...

383 Partridge's Death realized

Coquette's Heart.. 385

His Poetry

Visit to Sir Roger in the Country

... 387

Bancis and Philemon.

Sir Roger at Church ....

390

Moral Tendency of Addison's Writings 391 THOMAS YALDEN...

Omnipresence of the Deity....

391 John Partridge's Defence...

Reflections in Westminster Abbey. 393

His Poetry-Letter from Italy 394 ALEXANDER POPE.

Paraphrase of Psalm xxii...

455

462

ALEXANDER POPE.

GEORGE BERKELEY ........

Sound an Echo to the Sense

South Sea Scheme, (note)..

511

Evanescence of Poctic Fame..

455 National Luxury the Road to National

The Scale of Being...

456

Ruin ......

513

Omnipresence of the Deity.

457

Address to Bolingbroke.

457 ELIZABETH TOLLET

515

The Toilet...

458 On a Death's-Head

515

Description of Belinda..

458 Winter Song.....

.... 516

The Baron offers Sacrifice for Success. 459

The Sylphs—their Functions

Letter to Steele on Early Death.

463 Ode to the Brave.

523

Homer and Virgil compared

461 Ode to Mercy

.... 523

On the Death of Thomson.

524

ROBERT BLAIR

465

The Grave...

465 SAMUEL RICHARDSON.

525

Death-divided Friendships.

466 Moral Sentiments-Benevolence, Ca-

Death, the good Man's Path to Heaven 466 lumny, Censure, Children, Educa-

tion

527

JAMES THOMSON

468 Friendship, General Observations 528

470 The Good Woman, Youth.

The Springs of Rivers.

471 Different Ends of Religion and Infi-

A Man perishing in the Snows of

delity...

530

Winter..

472 The Information the Gospel gives most

473

The various Sufferings in Winter

530

desirable...

Moral of the Seasons

473 Christ and Mohammed compared... 532

Hymn on the Seasons...

474

From the Castle of Indolence.

477 | LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 532

Eastern Manners and Language

... 533

ISAAC WATTS...

479 France in 1718...

535

A Summer Evening.

480 Female Education..

Seeking a divine Calm in a restless The Three Black Crows..

540

World...

483

Launching into Eternity..

General Directions relating to our A Repartee.

543

Ideas...

484 Singular Conduct ...

... 544

Rules for Improvement by Conversa-

tion...

486 WILLIAM SHENSTONE

546

The School Mistress

546

CONYERS MIDDLETON.

489

Cicero offers Himself to the Bar...... 490 ROBERT DODSLEY

549

Close of Cicero's Consulship..

IIENRY ST. JOHN (BOLINGBROKE).. 494 Woman

552

Absurdities of Useless Learning. 495 Rich and Poor

The World our Country.

497

Fortune not to be trusted.

498 EDWARD YOUNG..

555

Introduction to the Night Thoughts,

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

499

the Value of Time, &c...

556

Letter to a Female Friend.

500 Man's Resolutions to Reform

559

Letter to his Wife....

501 Life and Death....

.. 559

The true Use of Learning.

502 Dying Rich .......

559

Worldly Cares.

502 Society necessary for Happiness... 560

His Poetry

503 Insufficiency of Genius and Station

503 The Love of Praise...

562

Entering into Covenant

504 The Languid Lady

562

JOSEPH BUTLER.

504 WILLIAM FALCONER.

562

Christianity a Scheme imperfectly The Vessel going to Pieces, Death of

comprehended

563
5

507
Albert the Commander.

605

CATHERINE TALBOT. ....... 566 | WILLIAM PITT, EARL OP CHATHAM.

A Sense of God's Presence

..... 566

Our own Reason, and Others' Experi-

Importance of Time...

568 SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. 615

Poetry

569

The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse... 6-15

Importance of Early Rising.

569

SAMUEL JOHNSON

TIIOMAS CHATTERTON

647

570

Lines of Garrick, (note).

618

Death of Sir Charles Bawdin..

571 Letter to Lord Chesterfield.

649

Resignation :

577 The Voyage of Life.

653

Knowledge to be accommodated to the

MARK AKENSIDE...

578

Purposes of Life

Introduction. The Subject proposed • 579

656

Man's immortal Aspirations.

Right Improvement of Time.. 657

580

Cause of our Pleasure in Beauty

Duty of Forgiveness.

659

582 Solitude not Desirable.

660

Superiority of Moral Beauty..

582 Gayety and Good Humor .

Taste...

661

583 The Conversation of Authors

661

Conclusion

584 Books and Tradition..

662

Prevention of Evil Habits

662

THOMAS GRAY...

... 585 From the Preface to his Dictionary..

662

The Progress of Poetry

687

Reflections on Landing at Iona

The Bard..

.... 663

... 590 Picture of the Miseries of War....... 664

Elegy written in a Country Church- Parallel between Dryden and Pope... 665

On a distant Prospect of Eton College 599 The Fate of Poverty..

How be spends his Time in the Coun- Objects of Petition..

671

try

603

Folly of Procrastination.

Netley Abbey and Southampton.-

To Mr. Nichols, on the Death of his Prayer for Indifference.

Mother...

672

To Mr. Mason, on the Death of his ROBERT LOWTH

...... 673

Wife

606 Philosophy and Poetry compared as

Sources of Pleasure and Instruc-

TOBIAS SMOLLET

605

tion...

The Tears of Scotland.

674

607 Utility of Poetry, by Leigh Hunt, (note) 674

Ode to Leren Water......

608

Sublimity of the Prophet Isaiah 678

JOHN HAWKESWORTH

609 THOMAS WARTON

680

Value of Familiar Letters

610 The Hamlet, an Ode..........

Danger of Relapse after Purposes of

610

How far the Precept to Love our Ene- WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

mies is Practicable.....

684

612

Resignation of Charles V...

Carazan, the Merchant of Bagdad

.... 615

Columbus discovering America

A Lesson from the Flight of Time.... 617

Interview with his Father

Britain

691

624

Publication of his History. 692

The Village Preacher

625

Completion of his History 693

Elegy on Mrs. Blaize..

626

Invention and Use of Gunpowder 691

Prose Works .

627

Life Endeared by Age..

627 SIR WILLIAM JONES

Scenery of the Alps..

631

An Ode...

697

History of a Poet's Garden

631

Description of Milton's Residence..... 698

All cannot be Poets....

.. 635 Professor Wilson's Remarks

701

On Delicacy of Taste...

... 636

To a Mountain Daisy

.... 703

On Simplicity and Refinement....... 637 To Mary in Heaven..

704

The Middle Station of Life. ....... 637 Lessons for Life

705

The Cotter's Saturday Night..

106

WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 639 Man was made to Mourn

710

Study of the Classics recommended .. 610

General Advice to the Youthful Stu- EDMUND BURKE..

...... 712

dent

... 641

Efforts of English Abolitionists, (noto) 713

684

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