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3. A poet who sings to us still, sang in his youth of the life and work of men. In the second of his two poems, 6 ParacelSordello," Robert Browning wrote:
"God has conceded two sights to a man,
One of men's whole work, time's completed plan;
The other of the minute's work, man's first
Step to the plan's completeness."
He taught, as Elizabeth Barrett Browning- the best English poetess afterwards taught, in "Aurora Leigh," that we must be content to do our day's work in our day, and the more quietly for the far vision of what may be, which should include conviction that
Of any honest creature, howbeit weak,
Imperfect, ill-adapted, fails so much,
It is not gathered as a grain of sand
To enlarge the sum of human action used
For carrying out God's ends."
Alfred Tennyson, in his "In Memoriam," has based upon a human love a strain that rises step by step from the first grief of the bereaved to the full sense of immortality and of the upward labor of the race of man, each true soul being
Betwixt us and the crowning race
Of those that, eye to eye, shall look
On knowledge."
Tennyson's "Idyls of the King" is one great allegory of a divine voice in each man's soul that should be king over
his passions and desires. Then Charles Dickens sought to undo wrong and quicken good will among men; William Makepeace Thackeray attacked the petty vanities and insincerities of life, and with a cynical' air upheld an ideal opposite as his own inmost simplicity and kindliness to the life of the men who scorn their neighbors and consider themselves worldly wise. Now, too, George Eliot, in all her novels, instils her own faith in "plain living and high thinking," by showing that it is well in life to care greatly for something worthy of our care; choose worthy work, believe in it with all our souls, and labor to live through inevitable checks and hindrances, true to our best sense of the highest life we can attain. If Thomas Carlyle involves more in his condemnation of the times than may deserve his censure, his war is the true war of his century, with the host of false conventionalities that yet remain, with all that stands in the way of the work now chiefly left for us to do. "Men speak," he says, "too much about the world. Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a life of his own to lead? One life, a little gleam of time between two eternities, no second chance to us forevermore. It were well for us not to live as fools and simulacra, but as wise and realities. The world's being saved will not save us, nor the world's being lost destroy us. We should look to ourselves: there being great merit here in the duty of staying at home. And on the whole, to say the truth, I never heard of worlds being saved in any other way. That mania of saving worlds is itself a piece of the eighteenth century with its windy sentimentalism let us not follow it too far."
Actors and Theatres, 255-258.
Addison, Joseph, 446, 511, 512, 529, 530,531,
536, 539, 547, 598, 632; his life, 518, 519,
520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527; his
Account of the Poets, 447, 518, 519; his
Pax Europa Reddita, 520; his Musa
Anglicana, Letter from Italy, 521; his
Dialogues on Ancient Medals, 522; his
Campaign, Remarks on Italy, 523; his
Rosamond, 524, 529; the Tatler, 524, 525,
590, 632; the Spectator, 524, 525, 529, 538,
590, 603, 632; his Drummer, 527, 528; his
Cato, 512, 527, 575.
Elfric, 29, 30, 62; his Homilies, Colloquy,
Glossary, 29; his translation of portions
of the Bible, 30.
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 634.
Akenside, Mark, his Pleasures of Imagina-
tion, 603.
Alcuin, 24, 25.
Aldhelm, 18, 22, 23.
Alexander, William, his plays, 298.
Alfred, King, his life, 24-28, 30; his trans-
lation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 25;
of Orosius's Universal History, 25, 26; of
Boëthius's Consolation of Philosophy, 27;
his Gregory's Book on the Care of the
Soul, 27.
Alfred of Beverley, 39.
Allen, Grant, 647.
Allingham, William, 643, 645.
André, Bernard, his Life of Henry VII., 146.
Andrew of Wyntoun, 121.
Andrewes, Lancelot, his Sermons, 339, 340.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the, 20, 26, 30.
Arbuthnot, John, 531, 542, 543, 547; his Ex-
amination of Woodward's Account of the
Deluge, Law is a Bottomless Pit, Memoirs
of Scriblerus, 531.
Armstrong, John, his Art of Preserving
Health, 549.
Arnold, Matthew, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647.
Dr. Thomas, 639, 641; his History of
Rome, 639.
Arthurian Romance, 38, 40, 42-44.
Ascham, Roger, 230; his life, 208-212; his
Toxophilus, 209; his Report and Dis-
course of the Affairs and State of Ger-
many, etc., 210; his Schoolmaster, 211,
212, 213.
Ashmole, Elias, his Theatrum Chemicum
Britannicum, Fasciculus Chemicus, and
other works, 469.
Athelard of Bath, 46-48.
Atterbury, Francis, his Sermons and Dis.
courses, Miscellaneous Works, 562.
Aubrey, John, his Miscellanies, Natural
History and Antiquities of the County of
Surrey, 482.
Augustine, his De Civitate Dei, 25.
Aungervyle, Richard, 56-59; his Philobi
blon, 56, 58, 59.
Austen, Jane, her novels, 633.
Avesbury, Robert of, his De Mirabilibus
Gestis Edwardi III., 39.
Aytoun, W. E., 643, 644.
Bacon, Francis, 189, 195, 272, 275, 346, 366,
414, 456, 462, 469, 473, 477, 503; his life,
354-362; his Temporis Partus Masculus,
355; his Unity in Religion, 356, 359; his
Essayes, 357-359; his Apologie, 359; his
Proficience and Advauncement of Learn-
ing, 359, 360, 362; his Instauratio Magna,
360, 361, 362, 364; his Cogitata et Visa,
361; his Novum Organum, 361, 362, 363;
his History of the Raigne of K. Henry
VII., History of Life and Death, 362; his
Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis, Sil-
va Silvarum, Scala Intellectus, Prodromi,
Active Science, 362, 363, 364; his philoso-
phy, 364, 365.
Roger, his life, 48-50; his Opus Majus,
Opus Minus, Opus Tertium, 49, 50, 364.
Baillie, Joanna, her tragedies and comedies,
Ballads, Robin Hood, 122-124.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia, her Eighteen Hun-
dred and Eleven, 614.
Barbour, John, 99, 106; his History of Scot-
tish Kings, Lives of Saints, 106; his Bruce,
106, 107.
Barclay, Alexander, his Ship of Fools, 177,
178; his other writings, 178.
-, Robert, his Truth Cleared from Calum.
nies, Apology for the True Christian Di
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Baring-Gould, S., 646, 648.
Barrow, Isaac, 470; his sermons and | Bodenham, John, his Politeuphuia, 222,
works, 499, 500.
Bath, Athelard of, 46; his Quæstiones
Naturales, 46, 47; his De Eodem et
Diverso, 47, 48.
Baxter, Richard, 370; his life, 492, 493, 495;
his Saints' Everlasting Rest, Call to the
Unconverted, 493; his Holy Common.
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Beattie, James, his Poems and Transla
tions, Essay on Truth, Minstrel, 607.
Beaumont, Francis, 189, 276, 288, 294; his
Paraphrase of Ovid, 294; his joint plays
with Fletcher, 295-297, 401; their Knight
of the Burning Pestle, 296.
Beckford, William, his Vathek, 602.
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 631, 642; his
Bride's Tragedy and other works, 631.
Bede, 14; his life, 22-24, 26, 38, 62; his
Nature of Things, 22; his Ecclesiastical
History, 23, 25, 346.
Behn, Aphra, 426, 436, 452; her life, 428-
430; her Oroonoko, 429, 452; her Rover
and other works, 429.
Bellenden, John, his translation of Boece,
or History and Chroniklis of Scotland,
translation of Livy, Proheme of the Cos-
mographé, 147.
Benedict, his Rule of a Monastic Life, 28.
Bentham, Jeremy, his works on govern-
ment, 641.
Bentley, Richard, his Epistola ad Millium,
Epistles of Phalaris, Editions of Homer,
Phædrus, Terence, Paradise Lost, 556.
Beowulf, 11, 17, 18, 19, 21.
Berkeley, George, his New Theory of Vis-
ion, Principles of Human Knowledge,
Alciphron, 556.
Berners, Juliana, her Book of Hunting,
Art of Hawking, Laws of Arms, 121.
-, Lord, his translation of Froissart's
Chronicle, of the Golden Book of Aure-
lius, 148.
Beveridge, William, his sermons, 501.
Beverley, Alfred of, his abridgment of Geof-
frey of Monmouth's Chronicle, 39.
Bibles, English, Wiclif's, 108, 109; Cover-
dale's, 144, 145; Matthew's, 145; Crom-
well's, 145; the Great, 145; Taverner's,
145; Cranmer's, 146, 199; Geneva, 198;
Bishops', 198.
Black, William, 646, 647.
Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, 612.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, 447, 510, 512, 537;
his Prince Arthur, 510, 511, 512; his King
Arthur, Paraphrases of Portions of the
Bible, Satire on Wit, Collection of Poems,
and other works, 511.
Blackstone, Sir William, his Commentaries
on the Laws of England, 597.
Blair, Robert, his Grave, 552.
Blenerhasset, Thomas, A Mirror for Magis.
trates, 234.
Blessington, Lady, 634.
Bloomfield, Robert, his Farmer's Boy and
other poems, 630.
Boccaccio, 82, 83, 95, 447; his stanza, 78, 79;
his Teseide, 80, 95; his Filostrato, 84; his
Decameron, 92, 93, 95, 96, 102, 118, 176,
195, 212; his Falls of Illustrious Men, 87,
97, 118, 232.
Bodley, Sir Thomas, 339, 341.
223; his England's Helicon, 228.
Boece, Hector, his History of the Scots,
146, 147.
Boëthius, 27, 77; his Consolation of Philos.
Boileau, his L'Art Poétique, 399, 400, 536.
ophy, 27, 77.
Bolingbroke, Lord, 529, 544, 558, 559, 598;
his Craftsman, Parties, Human Knowl
Boswell, James, his Life of Johnson, 593.
edge, Philosophical Writings, 559.
Bourne, Vincent, his Thyrsis et Chloe, 551.
Bowles, William Lisle, his Sonnets, 630.
Bowring, Sir Thomas, 647.
Boyle, Robert, 463, 467, 468, 484; his life,
464-466; his Seraphic Love, New Experi-
ments Physico-Mechanical, 464; his Phy-
siological Essays, Sceptical Chemist,
small treatises on Experimental Natural
Philosophy, Colors, Style of the Holy
Scriptures, Saltness of the Sea, 465; his
Excellency of Theology, Reconcilable-
ness of Reason and Religion, 465.
Bracton, Henry of, his Upon the Laws and
Customs of England, 51.
Bramhall, Dr., his Catching of Leviathan,
458.
Brome, Alexander, 322.
Brassey, Thomas, 648.
Bromyard, John of, his Summa Predican-
Bronté, Charlotte, 635, 643; her Jane Eyre
tium, 125.
and other novels, 635.
Brooke, Arthur, his translation of Ban.
Brooks, Charles Shirley, 643, 644.
dello's Romeo and Juliet, 195.
Broome, William, 540, 542; his translation
of Homer, Miscellaneous Poems, 540.
Brown, Thomas, his satires, plays, and
other works, 455.
Dr. Thomas, his philosophical works,
641.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 468, 503; his Religio
Medici, 468, 470; his Pseudodoxia Epi-
demica, 468; his Hydrotaphia, Garden of
Cyrus, 469.
-, William, 317; his Britannia's Pasto.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 13, 642, 643,
rals, Shepherd's Pipe, 305.
644, 647; her Aurora Leigh, 648.
-, Robert, 642, 643, 645, 646, 647; his Sor-
Brunne, Robert of, 64, 65; his Handlynge
dello, 648.
Sinne, 65, 67; his translation of Langtoft's
Brunton, Mary, her novels, 634.
Chronicle, 65.
Buchanan, George, 146, 337; his life, 191-
194; his Latin satires and tragedies and
translations, Paraphrasis Psalmorum Da-
vidis poetica, 192; his Rerum Scoticarum
Historia, 193, 194.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 644.
Buckingham, Duke of, see Villiers, George.
Bunyan, John, his life, 489, 490, 495, 497;
Bulwer, Lord Lytton, see Lytton, Lord.
his Divine Emblems, 491;his Pilgrim's
Progress, 491, 492; his Holy City, Justifi-
cation by Faith, 491; his Holy War, 492.
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