Marini, 2, 416.

Marlay, Chief Justice, congratulates
Dryden, 3, 106 n.
Marlborough, 2, 95, 132.
Marlowe, 8, 197-227; his birth
and education, 204; his death,
204; a liberal thinker, 205; a
lavish and grandiose writer, 206;
no characters in his plays, 217;
his influence on Shakespeare, 213;
on Keats and Milton, 225, 226;
unerring in his poetic instinct, 227;
his verse, 2, 246; 5, 302, 304;
characterized, 2, 307;
his un-
rhymed pentameter, 3, 223; his
language, 235; 5, 297 n ; on hell,

69.

Drayton on, 8, 208, 209; Chap-
man on, 209.

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Come live with me, 8, 86, 90;
Dido, Queen of Carthage, 206
208; Dr. Faustus quoted, 5, 285
n; 7, 285; 8, 220-225; Ed-
ward II., 8, 213-215; Hero
and Leander, 225; Tamburlaine,
5, 298; 8, 206-208; passage
taken from Shakespeare, 4, 297n;
quoted, 292.

Maroons, of Surinam, 6, 283.
Marriage ceremony, the "with all
my worldly goods,' etc., 6,

12.

Marseillaise, 5, 174.
Marshall, Chief Justice, anecdote of,
5, 236.

Marston, his dramatic works re-
printed in the "Library of Old
Authors," 2, 281; the editor's
poor English, 290; his general
incompetency, 293-306; some-
times deviates into poetry, 296;
his Sophonisba, 296; on slavery,
297; a middling poet, 300; his
neologisms, 3, 223.

Martin, Martin, his Description of
the Western Islands, 1, 131.
Martin's thermometer, 1, 263.
Martineau, Miss, on Wordsworth's
conversation, 5, 225 n.
Martyrs, 6, 398; their stakes the
mile-stones of Christianity, 13.
Marvell, 3, 66; 5, 50; on the
Dutch, 1, 308; Horatian ode,
and elegy, 3, 27; on Charles I.,
5, 259.
Marvellous, the, its fascination, 3,
203.

Mary, Queen of Scots, in the Faery
Queen, 4, 283 n.

Maryland, Pinckney's denunciation
of slavery in the Assembly in 1789,
6, 172.
Masculine quality of Emerson, 2,
136, 393, 402.

Mason, George, of Virginia de-
nounced slavery, 6, 176.
Mason, Captain John, 4, 66; his
account of the dissolution of Par-
liament in 1655, 40; on disorders
of Cromwell's soldiers, 42.
Mason, William, his Caractacus and
Elfrida, 2, 172.

Mason and Dixon's lines not to be
drawn in the world of ethics, 6,

9.

Masquerades, English, 1, 234.
Massachusetts, compared with Vir-
ginia in its early institutions, 4,
18; the village school-house de-
scribed, 20; her loyalty to the
general government, 6, 84; at
the Philadelphia convention of
1866, 352; abolition of property
qualification for suffrage, 7, 7;
financial probity of the state, 7;
Irish peasants on the worn-out
farms of, 23; its condition at the
time of the founding of Harvard
College, 174; the religious en-
thusiasm and business sagacity of
its founders, 177; their public
spirit shown in their care for edu-

cation, 178; her debt to the
graduates of Harvard, 188. See
also, New England.
Massachusetts Hall. See Harvard
College.

Massinger, Philip, his birth and boy-

hood, 8, 293; his education, 294;
his connection with the stage, 296;
Sir Henry Herbert's condemna-
tion of two plays, now lost, 296;
his probable politics, 297, 299;
free expression of his opinions,
298; not unlike Mr. Ruskin on
some points, 299; a man of
large sympathies, 299; the Ro-
man Actor quoted, 300-302;
his burial, 303; number of his
plays, 303; their excellent quali-
ties, 303, 304; occasional foul-
ness of his lower characters, 305;
Lamb's estimate of, 305; his
improbabilities never impossible,
308; inferior as a poet, excellent
as a dramatist, 309; Coleridge
on his versification, 2, 239.
MASSINGER

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AND FORD, 8, 293-

315.
Masson, his edition of Milton. See
Milton Poetical Works.
his Life of Milton, its length and
slow accomplishment, 5, 245;
the large space occupied by con-
temporary history, 248; unessen-
tial matters treated with too great
detail, 249; compared to Alls-
ton's picture of Elijah in the
Wilderness, 251; his imperti-
nent details of a pseudo-dramatic
kind, 253; his unsuitable famil-
iarity, 256; instances of vulgarity
of treatment, 257; of attempted
humor, 257; his style stilted in
speaking of every-day matters,
259; his inappropriate figures,
259; his unhappy infection with
the vivid style, 262; his mi-
nuteness of detail and diffuseness,
264; discusses the possibility of
Milton's military training, 266;

his fondness for hypothetical in-
cidents, 268; the valuable mat-
ter in his volumes, 269; lacks
skill as a story-teller, 270; his
analyses of Milton's prose writings
and of the pamphlets written
against him, 276; failure to
draw a living portrait of Milton,
278; on Milton's versification,
299; his fruitful researches in
regard to Milton, 8, 120; also,
7, 286.

Mate, Chief, anecdotes of X, 1,
137.

Material prosperity, danger of an
absorption in, 7, 277.
Materialism, 4, 426; the occasion
of both superstition and unbelief,
3, 210; Dante on, 5, 103 n.
Mather, Cotton, bewailed the at-
tractions of the tavern, 1, 43;
his part in the witchcraft delusion,
4, 15; the Magnalia, its vices
of style and of thought, 3, 53 n;
his pedantry, 7, 181; also, 2,
278, 393; 4, 85.
Mather, Increase, on the Devil, 2,
284.

Remarkable Providences, reprinted
in the "Library of Old Authors,"
2, 278; the poor English of the
editor, 283; his inaccuracies,
284, 288.
Maundeville, Sir John, cited, 2,

372.
Maury, Alfred, on the origin of the
witches' Sabbath, 3, 154; on
witchcraft, 200.

Mayflower, the ship, 6, 148.
Mazarin, Cardinal, put a stop to
exorcism, 3, 181; his motto, 6,

232.
Mazeppa, 1, 163.
Meaning of words, intensity supposed
to be gained by mere aggregation,
I, 57.
Mechanics, American, 7, 113.
Medal, the world compared to, I,
65.

Med. Facs. of Harvard College, I,
54.

dramatic poetry, 3, 75.
Similes.

See also,

types, 5, 68.

Meteoric showers, 1, 236.

ence on, 2, 195.

Medicine, Bacon on the quack in
medicine compared to the practi-
cal man in politics, 7, 236.

dwellers, 1, 263.

Meteorological observations, 1, 265.
Methuselah, the possibilities of his
biography considered, 5, 246.

352.
MEDITERRANEAN, IN THE, I, 136-
144; phosphorescence in, 125;
the hot nights, 139; the Chief
Mate's opinion of, 139.
Melancthon on a possessed girl's
knowledge of Virgil, 3, 175 n.
Memoirs, contemporary, their value,
2, 17.

Memory, 7, 83; quickened in
process of drowning, I, 39;
whipping a benefit to, 3, 3.
Ménage, his warning against catch-
ing fire, 1, 344.

Mendelssohn, Lessing's friendship
with, 4, 131; Lessing's last let-
ter to, 149.

Mexican War, 7, 258.

Mexicans, conversion of, by the
Spaniards, 2, 264.
Mexico, 2, 4.

Michael Angelo, the character of his
work, 1, 232, 241; his sonnets
compared with Petrarch's, 4, 200;
his chamber in Florence, 5, 5;
his Dawn, 299; also, 1, 24; 3,
35; 5, 4, 30, 309.
Michelet, 6, 149.
Michigan, the case of her secession

supposed, 6, 67.

Middle Ages, sympathy with, I,
249; imaged in the Divina Com-
media, 5, 50.
Middling poets, 2, 300.

aggerations, I, 7.

Mendicancy, a liberal profession in
Rome, 1, 244. See also, Beg-
gars.
Mephistopheles, his opportunity, 1,
43; connection with Vulcan, 3,

154.
Mercer, Rev. Dr., of Newport,
R. I., gives a bust of Coleridge
to Westminster, 7, 81.
Mercy, Langland on, 2, 231.
Merlin, 1, 106; 2, 364; 3, 171.
Mermaid, autobiography of, imagined,
4, 206.

Mermaid Tavern, the, 8, 182.
Merman, Webster's story of a mer-
man bishop, I, 132.
Merope. See Arnold, Matthew.
Metaphor and simile, 2, 430.
Metaphors not arguments, 7, 14;
extravagant metaphors in French

118.

Military leader, sympathy for a de-
feated, 6, 115; idealized by his
country, 116.

Millington, Miss, on the Prince of
Wales's motto, 3, 230 n.
Millstones, the sympathy of kindred
pursuits compared to, 1, 142.
Milo, 2, 258.

Milor in partibus, 1, 148.
MILTON, 5, 245-312; his figure
invested with a halo of sacredness,
255; his personal dignity, 255,
294; his sense of his own great-
ness, 258; his manner little af-
fected by other English poets, 264;
believed himself set apart for a di-
vine mission, 268, 273; his work
as a controversialist desultory and
ephemeral, 270; essentially a doc-
trinaire, 271; his training poetical

and artistic, 272; identified him-
self with his controversies, 272,
274, 310; the finer passages in
his prose, 272; his prose valuable
for its style and inspiration, 273;
his egotism in sympathy with the
national egotism of the Jews, 274;
literature with him an end not a
means, 276; the formation of his
style, 276; the circumstances of
his life, 277; peculiarities of his
vocabulary, 279; his spelling,
280; his avoidance of harsh com-
binations of sounds, 285; his use
of the sh and ch sound, 285; a
harmonist rather than a melodist,
289; his greatness in the larger
movements of metre, 289; his use
of alliteration, assonance, and
rhyme, 290; not always careful
of the details of his verse, 291;
his imagination diffuses itself, not
condenses, 292; his fondness for
indefinite epithets, 292; he gen-
eralizes instead of specifying, 293;
his occasional use of abrupt pauses,
294; his respect for his own work,
294; the sustained strength of
his beginnings, 294; parallel pass-
ages in earlier authors, 298; his
elisions, 299, 305 n; his few un-
manageable verses, 304; his love
of tall words, 308; the most
scientific of our poets, 309; his
haughty self-assertion, 309; his
self-consciousness, 310; his grand
loneliness and independence of hu-
man sympathy, 312; his versifica-
tion, 2, 246; 4, 271 n; 5, 299;
Marlowe his teacher, 2, 307; he
dies in obscurity, 407; his literary
opinions reflected in Phillips's
Theatrum Poetarum, 408; trans-
lated, 413; regarded theology
above poetry, 427; studied by Dry-
den, 3, 19, 50; his evident sym-
pathy with Satan, 217; quality
of his imagination, 260; his man-
ner, 260; instances of redupli-

cation of sense, 271; Roger Wil-
liams's notices of, as secretary of
the Council, 4, 37; a student of
Spenser, 264, 267 n, 299;
gradual change of his opinions,
278 n; in Florence, 5, 5; had
read Dante closely, 35; the move-
ment of his mind compared to the
trade-wind, 228; the abuse be-
stowed upon, compared with the
treatment of Keats, 323; his
work saved by its style, 7, 73; in
many respects an ancient, 8, 5;
on copyright, 119; his tract on
Divorce, 119, 120; denounced
by the Stationers, 119; censor of
the press, 122; not a democrat
in the modern sense, 123; his
unconscious mental reservation,
124; Coleridge on, 126; his influ-
ence on Burke, 126; his prose
works never popular, 126; his
prose often difficult and coarse,
128; his blank verse unrivalled,
129; a mint-master of language,
129; the most eloquent of Eng-
lishmen, 130; incorrectly taxed
with Latinism, 130; his unusu-
al English words, 131; as an
adversary, 131; incomparable ef-
ficacy of parts of his prose writ-
ings, 132.

compared with Shakespeare, 3,
260; with Burke in political wis-
dom, 5, 271; with Dante, 53,
64; with Dante in the circum-
stances of his life, 278; in char-

acter, 311.

on winter, 1, 349; on decorum in
poetry, 2, 408; on Dryden, 3,
25; on fugitive and cloistered
virtue, 4, 192; on Spenser, 277;
5, 106 n; on union with truth,
161 n; on the collectors of per-
sonal traditions of the Apostles,
250; on his morning exercise,
265; on his political writings,
276.

Dryden on his rhymes, 3, 19;