English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne

INDEX.

• Addison, Joseph, 259, 280;
• early life of, 288 et seq.;
• his “Cato,” 289;
• The Spectator, 290;
• “Sir Roger De Coverley,” 291;
• Swift’s opinion of the Spectator, 292;
• his marriage, 294;
• “The Vision of Mirza,” 295;
• his political life, 297;
• his death, 298.
• Anne, Princess, daughter of James II., 262;
• Queen, 267;
• her characteristics, 278;
• her accession to the throne, 302.
• Aubrey, 94, 141.
• Baxter, Richard, his Saints’ Rest, 187.
• Beaumont and Fletcher, 38, 93;
• a quotation from “Philaster,” 97;
• “The Faithful Shepherdess,” 98.
• Bible, King James’, 44 et seq.;
• dedication of, 45;
• the revisers of, 47 et seq.;
• its literary value, 51 et seq.;
• early English, 54;
• the Genevan, 55;
• the Bishops’, 55;
• the first American, 56.
• Blackfriars Theatre, 34.
• Blenheim Palace, 305.
• Bodley, John, 55.
• Boyle, Robert, 207.
• Boyne, battle of the, 264.
• Browne, Sir Thomas, 222.
• Buchanan, George, 7.
• Buckingham, Duke of, and Charles I., 133;
• his son, author of “The Rehearsal,” 134.
• Buckingham, the Second Villiers, 184.
• Bunyan, John, 209;
• his birthplace, 210;
• his early life and marriage, 211;
• a preacher, 212;
• imprisoned, 213;
• his Pilgrim’s Progress, 215.
• Burnet’s History of his Own Times, 202, 258.
• Burton, Robert, author of Anatomy of Melancholy, 144.
• Busino, his account of the representation of Jonson’s “Pleasure is Reconciled to Virtue,” at Whitehall, 29 et seq.
• Butler, Samuel, author of Hudibras, 193.
• Cary, Sir Robert, carries to Edinburgh the news of the Queen’s death, 8.
• Charlecote House, 66.
• Charles I., 105, 132;
• influence of the Duke of Buckingham on, 133;
• execution of, 162 et seq.
• Charles II., restoration of, 182;
• death of, 255.
• Charter House, the, 11.
• Clarendon, Earl of, his History of the Rebellion, 201.
• Compton, Lord, 24.
• Congreve, William, 269;
• visited by Voltaire, 270.
• Counterblast to Tobacco, the, of James I., 7, 104.
• Cowley, Abraham, 145;
• an extract from his “Hymn to Light,” 146;
• compared with Tennyson, 147.
• Cromwell, 163.
• Davies, Sir John, his lines on the Immortality of the Soul, 49.
• Defoe, Daniel, 258, 272;
• a pamphleteer, 273;
• his Advice to English Tradesmen, 274;
• his Robinson Crusoe, 276;
• on the Commission in Edinburgh, 277.
• Diodati, Charles, the friend of Milton, 156.
• Donne, John, 49, note.
• Dorset, 186.
• Doxology, of the Lord’s Prayer, the, 52.
• Drummond of Hawthornden, 28;
• entertains Jonson, 28 et seq.
• Dryden, John, 227;
• his fertility, 228;
• his eulogies of Cromwell and Charles II., 230 et seq.;
• Mr. Saintsbury’s opinion of his consistency, 232;
• his Annus Mirabilis, 233;
• the London of, 234;
• his plays, 238;
• his Hind and Panther, 241;
• his Virgil, 243;
• his “All for Love,” 244;
• estimate of him, 246, 259, 261.
• Ellwood, Milton’s friend, 175.
• Elizabeth, Queen, and the English Bible, 55.
• Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 100.
• England at the death of Elizabeth, 1 et seq.
• Etherege, 186.
• Evelyn, John, 137;
• his diary, 201.
• Ford, John, 91.
• Fortunes of Nigel, Scott’s, its picture of James I., 19, 35.
• Freeman, Mr., his misleading averment as to the errors in Ivanhoe, 20.
• Fuller, Thomas, his English Worthies, 221.
• Gay, John, 308;
• his “Beggar’s Opera,” 308;
• his Trivia, 310.
• Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s time, 33, 36.
• Gosson, Stephen, a representation of the Puritan feeling, 42.
• Greenwich Hospital, 265.
• Hampton Court Conference, 44 et seq.
• Harrison, William, 20 et seq.
• Herbert, George, the poet, 7;
• poems of, 115;
• his marriage, 118, 128.
• Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, 7.
• Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, 74, note.
• Herrick, Robert, 120;
• specimens of his verse, 122;
• character of, 124;
• his Hesperides, 125.
• Howell, James, 107.
• Hudibras, 193.
• James I., his pedigree, 4 et seq.;
• his person and character, 6 et seq.;
• his journey to London to be crowned, 9 et seq.;
• his family, 100;
• tastes and characteristics of, 101 et seq.;
• his Counterblast to the Use of Tobacco, 36, 104.
• James II., 256.
• Johnson, Hester (“Stella”), 314, 321;
• Swift’s letters to, 328;
• “Stella’s Journal,” 329;
• her secret marriage with Swift, 335;
• and Vanessa, 335;
• death of, 337.
• Jonson, Ben, his adulation of the King, 26;
• his literary versatility, 27;
• his masque at Whitehall, 29 et seq., 106.
• Judith Shakespeare, William Black’s novel, 33.
• Kenilworth, Walter Scott’s, 201.
• Kensington in Queen Anne’s time, 308.
• Kingsley’s pictures of Elizabethan characters and times, 18 et seq.
• Lamb, Charles, influence of Sir Thomas Browne upon, 224;
• his essay, “The Genteel Style in Writing,” 227.
• Laud, Archbishop, 134, 136.
• Lily, Milton’s schoolmaster, 152, 186.
• Locke, John, his treatise on the Human Understanding, 249;
• his life, 250;
• on education, 252.
• “McFingal,” the, of John Trumbull, 196.
• Marlborough, Duke of, 303.
• Marlborough, Duchess of, 302;
• her influence over Queen Anne, 304.
• Marston, John, specimen of his satire, 92.
• Marvell, Andrew, Milton’s assistant, 170;
• story of his good fortune, 189;
• his “Garden,” etc., 191.
• Mary, Queen, daughter of James II., 262;
• death of, 301.
• Massinger’s “A New Way to Pay Old Debts,” 60, 93, 94.
• Masson’s Life and Times of Milton, 151.
• Mermaid Tavern, the, 34, 151.
• Milton, John, 150;
• Masson’s Life of, 151;
• his father, 151;
• at school, 152;
• his early verse, 153 et seq.;
• at Cambridge, 153;
• his travels, 156;
• his marriage to Mary Powell, 157;
• his daughters, 160;
• his first published poems, 160;
• his pamphlets, 161;
• his defence of regicide, 164;
• in peril, 167;
• domestic life, 169;
• Munkacsy’s picture of, 169;
• his third marriage, 171;
• The Paradise Lost, 171;
• his use of other books, 173;
• his last days, 174;
• payments for his Paradise, 176;
• deserted by his daughters, 177;
• Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, 177, 188;
• his death, 179.
• Mortality, Old, Scott’s novel, 264.
• Newton, Isaac, 207, 258.
• “New Way to Pay Old Debts, A,” 60, 94.
• Nigel, Scott’s novel, 19, 35.
• Old Mortality, Scott’s novel, 324.
• Otway, Thomas, 237.
• Overbury, Sir Thomas, 114, his Characters.
• “Overreach, Sir Giles,” 60, 94.
• Penn, William, 258.
• Pepys, Mr., his purchase of Hudibras, 194, 198;
• his diary, 199;
• extracts from, 202.
• Peveril of the Peak, Scott’s, 184.
• Primer, the Old New England, 54.
• Prior, Matthew, 258, 268.
• Prynne, William, 142;
• his Histriomastix, 143.
• Raleigh, Walter, 11 et seq.;
• in the Tower, 13;
• his History of the World, 13;
• his expedition to Guiana, 13;
• executed, 15;
• specimens of his writings, 15 et seq.;
• his Ocean to Cynthia, 17, note;
• his life an epitome of Elizabethan times, 18.
• Rochester, Earl of, 185.
• Selden, John, his Table-Talk, 129.
• Shakespeare, 32 et seq.;
• 56 et seq.;
• his characters real, 58;
• his personality, 61;
• his family relations, 67;
• his children, 68, 84;
• in London, 73 et seq.;
• early poetry, 75;
• “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” 76, 77;
• his “Venus and Adonis,” and “Lucrece,” 77;
• like Chaucer in taking his material, 79;
• his closing years, 81 et seq.;
• his son-in-law, Dr. Hall, 83.
• Sheridan, Thomas, 337.
• Sidney, Lady Dorothy, pursued by Waller, 149.
• Southampton, Earl of, 74.
• Spencer, Sir John, his dwelling, Crosby Hall, 23;
• a letter of his daughter, 24 et seq.
• Steele, Richard, 259;
• author of the Tatler, 280;
• his Christian Hero, 281;
• his marriages, 281 et seq.;
• his literary qualities, 285.
• Stratford, the town of, and surrounding country, 63;
• a walk to, from Windsor, 70.
• Stuart, house of, 4.
• Suckling, Sir John, 140;
• his tragic death, 142.
• Swift, Jonathan, 226, 259;
• early life of, 312;
• his life at Sir William Temple’s, 313;
• goes back to Ireland, 314;
• his Battle of the Books and Tale of a Tub, 316;
• appointed chaplain to Lord Berkeley, 318;
• his politics, 324;
• his London life, 328;
• Stella’s Journal, 328;
• “Cadenus and Vanessa,” 332;
• back in Ireland, 333;
• his secret marriage with Stella, 335;
• his Gulliver’s Travels, 340;
• his madness and death, 340.
• Swinburne, his estimate of Webster, 89.
• Taine, his overdrawn picture of the Restoration, 186.
• Taylor, Jeremy, 135;
• his career, 136;
• his Holy Living and Dying, 139.
• Taylor, John, “the Water Poet,” a favorite of James I., 102.
• Temple, Sir William, 224, 313;
• death of, 317.
• Theobalds, King James’ palace, 10, 105.
• Tillotson, John, 188.
• Tobacco in literature, 103 et seq.
• Trumbull, John, his McFingal, 196.
• “Two Noble Kinsmen,” 95.
• Vanbrugh, Sir John, 306.
• “Vanessa,” Swift’s letter to, 315.
• Vanhomrigh, Miss (“Vanessa”), 331;
• death of, 336.
• Waller, Edmund, 145;
• his literary importance, 149.
• Walton, Izaak, 111;
• his Angler, 112;
• his biographic sketches, 113.
• Webster, John, 88;
• Dyce’s edition of his works, 89;
• character of his plays, 90;
• Swinburne’s estimate of, 89.
• Westward, Ho! Kingsley’s, 18.
• William and Mary, 256.
• William of Orange, 263 et seq.
• William III., 263;
• his death, 301.
• Will’s Coffee-house, 236.
• Woodstock, Scott’s novel, 168.
• Woodstock, the park at, 305.
• Wotton, Sir Henry, 109.
• Wren, Sir Christopher, 306.