From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF PORTRAITS.
CHAPTER I.
FROM THE CONQUEST TO CHAUCER.
1066-1400.
CHAPTER II.
FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER.
1400-1599.
CHAPTER III.
THE AGE OF SHAKSPERE.
1564-1616.
CHAPTER IV.
THE AGE OF MILTON.
1608-1674.
CHAPTER V.
FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE DEATH OF POPE.
1660-1744.
CHAPTER VI.
FROM THE DEATH OF POPE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
1744-1789.
CHAPTER VII.
FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT.
1789-1832.
CHAPTER VIII.
FROM THE DEATH OF SCOTT TO THE PRESENT TIME.
1832-1893.
APPENDIX.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
THE PRIORESS.
PALAMON'S FAREWELL TO EMELIE.
EMELIE IN THE GARDEN.
ALISON.
ANONYMOUS BALLADS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
WALY, WALY BUT LOVE BE BONNY.
THE TWO CORBIES.[82]
BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL.
EDMUND SPENSER.
THE SUITOR'S LIFE.
THE MUSIC OF THE BOWER OF BLISS.
THE HOUSE OF SLEEP.
WILLIAM SHAKSPERE.
SONNET XC.
SONG.
THE SLEEP OF KINGS.
FALSTAFF AND BARDOLPH.
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN.
HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY.
DETACHED PASSAGES FROM THE PLAYS.
FRANCIS BACON.
OF DEATH.
OF STUDIES.
OF ADVERSITY.
BEN JONSON.
SONG TO CELIA.
LONG LIFE.
EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.
THE THANKLESS MUSE.
JOHN FLETCHER AND FRANCIS BEAUMONT.
A SONG OF TRUE LOVE DEAD.
A SONG OF CRUEL LOVE.[119]
SWEET MELANCHOLY.[120]
CÆSAR'S LAMENT OVER POMPEY.
JOHN MILTON.
FAME.
THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY.
THE PROTECTION OF CONSCIENCE.
INVOCATION TO LIGHT.
SATAN.
ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.[127]
SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
THE VANITY OF MONUMENTS.
JOHN DRYDEN.
THE CHARACTER OF ZIMRI.[138]
THE CHEATS OF HOPE.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT.
ALEXANDER POPE.
A CHARACTER OF ADDISON.
AN ORNAMENT TO HER SEX.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
SIGNOR NICOLINI AND THE LION.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
DETACHED PASSAGES FROM BOSWELL'S LIFE.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
THE VILLAGE PASTOR AND SCHOOL-MASTER.
EDMUND BURKE.
THE DECAY OF LOYALTY.
THOMAS GRAY.
ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
WILLIAM COWPER.
FROM LINES ON THE RECEIPT OF HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE.
WINTER EVENING.
MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN.
ROBERT BURNS.
TAM O'SHANTER.
JOHN ANDERSON.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
SONNET.
THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL.
LUCY.
THE SOLITARY REAPER.
SKATING AT NIGHT.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
THE SONG OF THE SPIRITS.
THE LOVE OF ALL CREATURES.
ESTRANGEMENT OF FRIENDS.
WALTER SCOTT.
NATIVE LAND.
SUNSET ON THE BORDER.
PROUD MAISIE.
PIBROCH OF DONUIL DHU.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR.
VENICE.
A LAMENT.
THE POET'S DREAM.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON.
ELEGY ON THYRZA.
THE BALL AT BRUSSELS ON THE NIGHT BEFORE WATERLOO.
JOHN KEATS.
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN.
MADELINE.
CHARLES DICKENS.
BOB SAWYER'S BACHELOR PARTY.
WILLIAM MAKEPIECE THACKERAY.
BECKY GOES TO COURT AND DINES AT GAUNT HOUSE.
GEORGE ELIOT.
PASSAGES FROM ADAM BEDE.
THOMAS CARLYLE.
MIDNIGHT IN THE CITY.
GHOSTS.
ALFRED TENNYSON.
THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.
THE PASSING OF ARTHUR.
BUGLE SONG.
BREAK, BREAK, BREAK.
PEACE OR WAR?
STANZAS FROM IN MEMORIAM.
SONG FROM MAUD.
ROBERT BROWNING.
INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
THE LOST LEADER.
MEETING AT NIGHT.
WORK AND WORTH.
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD.
INDEX.
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