iv;
Nouveaux
Lundis, vol.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
4th ed.
1734.
Traill, H. D. and Mann, J. 8. Social England, vol. iv. 1903.
Watson, F. The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in
England. 1909.
Weld, C. R. A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presi-
dents. 2 vols. 1848.
A. T. BARTHOLOMEW.
CHAPTER XVI
THE ESSAY AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN ENGLISH
PROSE
A. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Miscellaneous Works. 1751. Essays rptd as Essays Moral and Entertaining.
2 vols. 1815.
See also, ante, bibl. to vol. VII, chaps. VIII and ix, pp. 443-4.
Abraham Cowley
A Proposition For the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. 1661.
A Vision, concerning his late pretended Highness, Cromwell the Wicked.
1661. Rptd in Harleian Miscellany.
Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose. In Works. 1668.
Prose Works. 1826.
The complete works, vol. 11. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 2 vols. (Chertsey Worthies
Library. ) 1881.
Prose Works. Ed. Lumby, J. R. Cambridge, 1887.
English Writings. Ed. Waller, A. R. Cambridge, 1903. See, also, vol. VII
of this work.
Miscellanea Aulica, pp. 130-60. Ed. Brown, T. 1702. [Letters from Cowley
to Henry Bennet afterwards earl of Arlington. ] Rptd in Grosart's ed.
of Works, vol. 11, with an additional letter from the British Museum.
For plays, see ante, bibl. to chap. v A.
## p. 481 (#503) ############################################
Chapter XVI
487
Thomas Forde
The Times anatomizd in several characters. 1647.
Lusus Fortunae. 1649.
A Theatre of Wits. 1660.
Faenestra in pectore; or familiar letters. 1660.
Virtus rediviva. 1661.
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
The Character of King Charles II. (Written 1685 ? . ) First ptd 1750,
A Letter to a Dissenter apon Occasion of His Majesties late Gracious
Declaration of Indulgence. By T. W. 1686. Rptd in Fourteen Papers,
1689. Rptd, Cambridge, 1909.
An Answer to a Letter to a Dissenter. (By L'Estrange, Sir Roger. ] 1687.
The Character of a Trimmer. By the Honourable Sir W [illiąm] C[oventry).
[Written 1685. ) April 1688.
The Character of a Tory. [By lord Mulgrave, afterwards duke of
Buckinghamshire. ] 1688.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent. 1688. Rptd in Fourteen Papers, 1689.
Essay upon Taxes. 1693. Rptd in Somers' Tracts, vol. iv.
Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflexions. 1750.
Miscellanies. 1700, 1704, 1717. (Includes A Lady's Gift, or Advice to a
Daughter, Maxims found among the Papers of the Great Almanzor,
Cautions for Choice of Parliament Men, New Model at Sea, etc. )
Foxcroft, H. C. Sir George Savile Marquis of Halifax. 2 vols. 1898.
Paul, H. Men and Letters. 1901.
Francis Osborne
Advice to a son. Oxford, 1656. 6th ed. Ib. 1658. The second part. Ib. 1658.
Ed. Parry, E. A. 1896.
A miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes, and Problematical Discourses,
Letters and Characters. 1659.
See, also, bibl. to vol. VII, chaps. VIII and ix.
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Évremond
Euvres meslées. Paris, 1668. [A pirated edition. ]
Euvres. [Edd. Silvestre, P. and Des Maizeanx, Pierre. ] 2 vols. 1705. 5 vols.
1706. 3 vols. 1709. Ed. Giraud, C. 3 vols. 1865.
Mixed Essays. 1685.
Miscellanea. Trans. Spence, F. 1686.
Miscellaneous Essays. 2 vols. 1692, 1694. Under title of Works. 2 vols.
1713.
Works. With life by Des Maizeaux. Eng. trans. 3 vols. 1714.
(Les Opéra is an amusing farce on the opera mania; the comparison
of English and French comedy has some critical point; the observations
on Opera give a short history of the species. ]
Biography and Criticism
Bourgoin, A. Les maîtres de la critique au xvII° siècle. 1889.
Daniels, W. M. Saint-Évremond en Angleterre. Versailles, 1907.
Des Maizeaux, P. Vie de Saint-Évremond. [1705); 1711.
Merlet, G. Saint-Évremond, étude historique, morale et littéraire. 1869.
Pastrello, F. Étude sur Saint-Évremond et son influence. Trieste, 1875.
Saintsbury, G. Miscellaneous Essays. 2nd ed. 1895.
Sainte-Beuve, C. A. Causeries du Lundi, vol.
iv; Nouveaux Lundis, vol. XIII.
31
E. L. VIII.
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Miscellanea. The First Part. 1680. Collected and augmented by the author.
1681, 1692, 1693, 1693. [Contains Essay on the Origin and Nature of
Government, and Survey of the Constitution and Interests of the Empire,
etc. , and their Relations to England in 1671. ]
Miscellanea. The Second Part. 1690, 1691. Corrected and augmented by
the author. 1692. [A copy of this edition, presented by Sir W. Temple,
with his autograph, is in the library of Emmanuel college. ] 1696, 1697.
Memoirs of what past in Christendom from 1672 to 1679. 1692. Rptd 1692,
1700, 1709.
An Essay upon Taxes. 1693.
Introduction to the History of England. 1695. Rptd 1699, 1708.
Miscellanea. The Third Part. Ed. Swift. 1701.
Letters written by Sir W. T. during his being Ambassador at the Hague
to the Earl of Arlington and Sir John Trevor, etc. 1699.
Letters. Ed. Swift. 3 vols. 1700-3.
Select Letters to the Prince of Orange, King Charles the IId and the Earl of
Arlington. To which is added an Essay upon the State and Settlement
of Ireland. 1701.
Works. 2 vols. 1720, 1731, 1740, 1750. 4 vols. 1754 (Edinburgh), 1757,
1770, 1814.
Essays on Ancient and Modern Learning and on Poetry. Ed. Spingarn, J, E.
Oxford, 1909.
Upon the Gardens of Epicurus with other Seventeenth century Garden
Essays. Ed. Sieveking, A. F. 1908.
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Euvres mêlées. 2 parts. Utrecht, 1693.
Introduction à l'histoire d'Angleterre. 1695.
Euvres posthumes. Miscellanea, Part ul. Utrecht, 1704.
Euvres diverses. Amsterdam, 1708.
Lettres. 2 vols. The Hague, 1711. ,
Biography and Criticism
Beavan, M. L. R. Sir William Temple (Gladstone Essay. ) Oxford, 1908.
Courtenay, T. P. Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of
Sir William Temple. 2 vols. 1836.
Macaulay, Lord. A review of the above in Edinburgh Review for
October, 1838.
Herriott, F. I. Sir William Temple on the Original Nature of Government.
(Johns Hopkins University Dissertation. ) Baltimore (1893? ).
Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia. 1823.
Luden, H. Sir William Temple. Biographie. Kleine Aufsätze, etc. , vol. II.
Göttingen, 1808.
Lyttel, E. S. Sir William Temple. (Stanhope Essay. ) Oxford, 1908.
Temple, Sir William, Bart. , The Life and Character of. By a Particular
Friend [his sister, lady Giffard). 1728.
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Parry, E. A. 1888.
Longe, Julia G. Martha Lady Giffard: her life and correspondence.
A sequel to the Letters of Dorothy Osborne. 1911.
:
B. FRENCH INFLUENCE, ESPECIALLY ON CRITICISM
Canfield, Dorothea F. Corneille and Racine in England. New York, 1904.
Charlanne, L. L'influence française en Angleterre au xvir siècle. Paris,
1906.
Dryden, John. Essays selected and edited by Ker, W. P. 2 vols. Oxford,
1900.
Gayley, C. M. and Scott, F. A. An Introduction to the Methods and
Materials of Literary Criticism, pp. 396–406, 432-6. Boston, 1899.
Saintsbury, G. A History of Criticism, vol. 11, bk. v, chaps. I and iv. Edin-
burgh, 1902.
Spingarn, J. E. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. Oxford,
1908.
Upham, A. H. The French influence in English literature from the
accession of Elizabeth to the Restoration. New York, 1908.
31-2
## p. 484 (#506) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
C. 600 Ethelbert of Kent commits
dooms of his folk to writing
C. 1256 Bracton's De legibus et
consuetudinibus Angliae.
1292 Year Books begin.
c. 1470 Fortescue's De laudibus
legum Angliae.
c. 1475 Littleton's Tenures.
1523-30 Saint German's Doctor and
Student.
1532 Perkins's Profitable Book.
1571 Plowden's Law Reports.
• 1581 Lambarde's Eirenarcha.
1585 Dyer's Law Reports.
1594 John Cosin born (d. 1672).
1600-15 Coke's Law Reports.
1609 Benjamin Whichcote born (d.
1683).
1610 Hardy's Mariamne.
1610 D'Urfé's Astrée.
1611 Robert Leighton born (d. 1684).
1612 Samuel Butler born (d. 1680).
1612 Thomas Killigrew born (d.
1683).
1614 Napier of Merchiston discovers
logarithms.
1614 Henry More born (d. 1687).
1616 Joseph Beaumont born (d.
1699).
1617 Ralph Cudworth born (d. 1688).
1620 John Evelyn born (d. 1706).
1624 George Fox born (d. 1691).
1627 (? ) John Wilson born (d.
Traill, H. D. and Mann, J. 8. Social England, vol. iv. 1903.
Watson, F. The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in
England. 1909.
Weld, C. R. A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presi-
dents. 2 vols. 1848.
A. T. BARTHOLOMEW.
CHAPTER XVI
THE ESSAY AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN ENGLISH
PROSE
A. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Miscellaneous Works. 1751. Essays rptd as Essays Moral and Entertaining.
2 vols. 1815.
See also, ante, bibl. to vol. VII, chaps. VIII and ix, pp. 443-4.
Abraham Cowley
A Proposition For the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. 1661.
A Vision, concerning his late pretended Highness, Cromwell the Wicked.
1661. Rptd in Harleian Miscellany.
Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose. In Works. 1668.
Prose Works. 1826.
The complete works, vol. 11. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 2 vols. (Chertsey Worthies
Library. ) 1881.
Prose Works. Ed. Lumby, J. R. Cambridge, 1887.
English Writings. Ed. Waller, A. R. Cambridge, 1903. See, also, vol. VII
of this work.
Miscellanea Aulica, pp. 130-60. Ed. Brown, T. 1702. [Letters from Cowley
to Henry Bennet afterwards earl of Arlington. ] Rptd in Grosart's ed.
of Works, vol. 11, with an additional letter from the British Museum.
For plays, see ante, bibl. to chap. v A.
## p. 481 (#503) ############################################
Chapter XVI
487
Thomas Forde
The Times anatomizd in several characters. 1647.
Lusus Fortunae. 1649.
A Theatre of Wits. 1660.
Faenestra in pectore; or familiar letters. 1660.
Virtus rediviva. 1661.
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
The Character of King Charles II. (Written 1685 ? . ) First ptd 1750,
A Letter to a Dissenter apon Occasion of His Majesties late Gracious
Declaration of Indulgence. By T. W. 1686. Rptd in Fourteen Papers,
1689. Rptd, Cambridge, 1909.
An Answer to a Letter to a Dissenter. (By L'Estrange, Sir Roger. ] 1687.
The Character of a Trimmer. By the Honourable Sir W [illiąm] C[oventry).
[Written 1685. ) April 1688.
The Character of a Tory. [By lord Mulgrave, afterwards duke of
Buckinghamshire. ] 1688.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent. 1688. Rptd in Fourteen Papers, 1689.
Essay upon Taxes. 1693. Rptd in Somers' Tracts, vol. iv.
Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflexions. 1750.
Miscellanies. 1700, 1704, 1717. (Includes A Lady's Gift, or Advice to a
Daughter, Maxims found among the Papers of the Great Almanzor,
Cautions for Choice of Parliament Men, New Model at Sea, etc. )
Foxcroft, H. C. Sir George Savile Marquis of Halifax. 2 vols. 1898.
Paul, H. Men and Letters. 1901.
Francis Osborne
Advice to a son. Oxford, 1656. 6th ed. Ib. 1658. The second part. Ib. 1658.
Ed. Parry, E. A. 1896.
A miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes, and Problematical Discourses,
Letters and Characters. 1659.
See, also, bibl. to vol. VII, chaps. VIII and ix.
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Évremond
Euvres meslées. Paris, 1668. [A pirated edition. ]
Euvres. [Edd. Silvestre, P. and Des Maizeanx, Pierre. ] 2 vols. 1705. 5 vols.
1706. 3 vols. 1709. Ed. Giraud, C. 3 vols. 1865.
Mixed Essays. 1685.
Miscellanea. Trans. Spence, F. 1686.
Miscellaneous Essays. 2 vols. 1692, 1694. Under title of Works. 2 vols.
1713.
Works. With life by Des Maizeaux. Eng. trans. 3 vols. 1714.
(Les Opéra is an amusing farce on the opera mania; the comparison
of English and French comedy has some critical point; the observations
on Opera give a short history of the species. ]
Biography and Criticism
Bourgoin, A. Les maîtres de la critique au xvII° siècle. 1889.
Daniels, W. M. Saint-Évremond en Angleterre. Versailles, 1907.
Des Maizeaux, P. Vie de Saint-Évremond. [1705); 1711.
Merlet, G. Saint-Évremond, étude historique, morale et littéraire. 1869.
Pastrello, F. Étude sur Saint-Évremond et son influence. Trieste, 1875.
Saintsbury, G. Miscellaneous Essays. 2nd ed. 1895.
Sainte-Beuve, C. A. Causeries du Lundi, vol.
iv; Nouveaux Lundis, vol. XIII.
31
E. L. VIII.
## p. 482 (#504) ############################################
482
Bibliography
Sir William Temple
An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland. Dublin, 1673. Rptd
in Miscellanea I.
Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. 1673. Rptd
1676, 1680, 1690, 1693, 1705.
Miscellanea. The First Part. 1680. Collected and augmented by the author.
1681, 1692, 1693, 1693. [Contains Essay on the Origin and Nature of
Government, and Survey of the Constitution and Interests of the Empire,
etc. , and their Relations to England in 1671. ]
Miscellanea. The Second Part. 1690, 1691. Corrected and augmented by
the author. 1692. [A copy of this edition, presented by Sir W. Temple,
with his autograph, is in the library of Emmanuel college. ] 1696, 1697.
Memoirs of what past in Christendom from 1672 to 1679. 1692. Rptd 1692,
1700, 1709.
An Essay upon Taxes. 1693.
Introduction to the History of England. 1695. Rptd 1699, 1708.
Miscellanea. The Third Part. Ed. Swift. 1701.
Letters written by Sir W. T. during his being Ambassador at the Hague
to the Earl of Arlington and Sir John Trevor, etc. 1699.
Letters. Ed. Swift. 3 vols. 1700-3.
Select Letters to the Prince of Orange, King Charles the IId and the Earl of
Arlington. To which is added an Essay upon the State and Settlement
of Ireland. 1701.
Works. 2 vols. 1720, 1731, 1740, 1750. 4 vols. 1754 (Edinburgh), 1757,
1770, 1814.
Essays on Ancient and Modern Learning and on Poetry. Ed. Spingarn, J, E.
Oxford, 1909.
Upon the Gardens of Epicurus with other Seventeenth century Garden
Essays. Ed. Sieveking, A. F. 1908.
French Translations
Euvres mêlées. 2 parts. Utrecht, 1693.
Introduction à l'histoire d'Angleterre. 1695.
Euvres posthumes. Miscellanea, Part ul. Utrecht, 1704.
Euvres diverses. Amsterdam, 1708.
Lettres. 2 vols. The Hague, 1711. ,
Biography and Criticism
Beavan, M. L. R. Sir William Temple (Gladstone Essay. ) Oxford, 1908.
Courtenay, T. P. Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of
Sir William Temple. 2 vols. 1836.
Macaulay, Lord. A review of the above in Edinburgh Review for
October, 1838.
Herriott, F. I. Sir William Temple on the Original Nature of Government.
(Johns Hopkins University Dissertation. ) Baltimore (1893? ).
Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia. 1823.
Luden, H. Sir William Temple. Biographie. Kleine Aufsätze, etc. , vol. II.
Göttingen, 1808.
Lyttel, E. S. Sir William Temple. (Stanhope Essay. ) Oxford, 1908.
Temple, Sir William, Bart. , The Life and Character of. By a Particular
Friend [his sister, lady Giffard). 1728.
## p. 483 (#505) ############################################
Chapter XVI
483
Dorothy Osborne (Lady Temple)
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple. 1652–54. Ed.
Parry, E. A. 1888.
Longe, Julia G. Martha Lady Giffard: her life and correspondence.
A sequel to the Letters of Dorothy Osborne. 1911.
:
B. FRENCH INFLUENCE, ESPECIALLY ON CRITICISM
Canfield, Dorothea F. Corneille and Racine in England. New York, 1904.
Charlanne, L. L'influence française en Angleterre au xvir siècle. Paris,
1906.
Dryden, John. Essays selected and edited by Ker, W. P. 2 vols. Oxford,
1900.
Gayley, C. M. and Scott, F. A. An Introduction to the Methods and
Materials of Literary Criticism, pp. 396–406, 432-6. Boston, 1899.
Saintsbury, G. A History of Criticism, vol. 11, bk. v, chaps. I and iv. Edin-
burgh, 1902.
Spingarn, J. E. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. Oxford,
1908.
Upham, A. H. The French influence in English literature from the
accession of Elizabeth to the Restoration. New York, 1908.
31-2
## p. 484 (#506) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
C. 600 Ethelbert of Kent commits
dooms of his folk to writing
C. 1256 Bracton's De legibus et
consuetudinibus Angliae.
1292 Year Books begin.
c. 1470 Fortescue's De laudibus
legum Angliae.
c. 1475 Littleton's Tenures.
1523-30 Saint German's Doctor and
Student.
1532 Perkins's Profitable Book.
1571 Plowden's Law Reports.
• 1581 Lambarde's Eirenarcha.
1585 Dyer's Law Reports.
1594 John Cosin born (d. 1672).
1600-15 Coke's Law Reports.
1609 Benjamin Whichcote born (d.
1683).
1610 Hardy's Mariamne.
1610 D'Urfé's Astrée.
1611 Robert Leighton born (d. 1684).
1612 Samuel Butler born (d. 1680).
1612 Thomas Killigrew born (d.
1683).
1614 Napier of Merchiston discovers
logarithms.
1614 Henry More born (d. 1687).
1616 Joseph Beaumont born (d.
1699).
1617 Ralph Cudworth born (d. 1688).
1620 John Evelyn born (d. 1706).
1624 George Fox born (d. 1691).
1627 (? ) John Wilson born (d.
