1630 John
Tillotson
born (d.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
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. 1696).
1628 Harvey's Exercitatio.
1628-44 Coke's Institutes.
1630 Isaac Barrow born (d. 1677).
1630 Sir Richard Bulstrode born
(d. 1711).
1630 John Tillotson born (d. 1694).
1631 Richard Cumberland, bp of
Peterborough, born (d. 1718).
1631 John Dryden born (d. 1700).
1632 Samuel Pepys born (d. 1703).
1633 (? ) Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl
of Roscommon, born (d. 1685).
1634 Sir George Etherege born
(d. 1691).
1634 Sir John Reresby born (d. 1689).
1634 Académie française founded.
1635 Edward Stillingfleet born (d.
1699).
1636 Joseph Glanvill born (d. 1680).
1636 Selden's Mare Clausum.
1636 Corneille's Cid.
1638 Charles Sackville, 6th earl of
Dorset, born (d. 1706).
1638 Corneillo's Cid acted in Eng-
lish.
1639 () Sir Charles Sedley born
(d. 1701).
1640 Mrs Aphra Behn born (d.
1689).
1640 William Wycherley born (d.
1716).
1641 Thomas Rymer born (d. 1713).
1641 Evelyn's Diary begins (ptd
1818).
1641 Shelton's Tachygraphy.
1642 Closing of theatres.
1642 (? ) Thomas Shadwell born (d.
1692).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715).
1644 William Penn born (d. 1718).
1646 (? ) Anthony Hamilton born (d.
1720).
1647 John Wilmot, 2nd earl of
Rochester, born (d. 1680).
1647 Henry More's Philosophicall
Poems.
1647 Selden's Fleta.
1648 Robert Barclay born (d. 1690).
1648 Elkanah Settle born (d. 1724).
1648 John Sheffield, 3rd earl of
Mulgrave, 1st duke of Bucking-
hamshire and Normanby, born
(d. 1721).
## p. 485 (#507) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
485
1648 Death of lord Herbert of 1661 Boyle's law of compressi-
Cherbury.
bility.
1648 Joseph Beaumont's Psyche. 1661 Thomas Fuller died.
1649 Execution of Charles I. 1661 Glanvill's Vanity of Dogma-
Commonwealth.
tizing.
1650 Madeleine de Scudéry's Grand 1661 Graunt's Natural and Poli.
Cyrus.
tical Observations on the Bills
1650 Glisson's Tractatus de Rachi- of Mortality.
tide.
1662 Act of Uniformity.
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
1662 Royal Society's charter.
1651 D'Avenant's Gondibert.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742).
1652 Thomas Otway born (d. 1685). 1662 Henry More's prose works
1652 Culverwel's Light of Nature. collected.
1652-4 Dorothy Osborne's Letters 1662 Sir W. Petty's Treatise of
(ptd 1888).
Taxes and Contributions.
1653 Oliver Cromwell Protector. 1662 Stillingfleet's Origines sacrae.
1653 Thomas D'Urfey born (d. 1723). 1662 Wilson's Cheats.
1653 (? ) Nathaniel Lee born (d. 1663 Butler's Audibras, Pt 1 (Pt II
1692).
1664; Pt 1 1678).
1653 John Oldham born (d. 1683). 1663 Cowley's Cutter of Coleman
1653 Urquhart's Rabelais, Books 1, Street.
II (Book 111 1693-4; Books iv, v, 1663 Dryden's Wild Gallant
by Motteux, 1708).
1663 Katherine Philips's version of
1653-5 Scudéry's Grand Cyrus in Corneille's Pompée.
English,
1663 Edward Somerset 2nd mar-
1655 Wallis's Arithmetica Infini- quis of Worcester's Century of
torum.
Inventions.
1656 D'Avenant's Siege of Rhodes. 1664 Sir John Vanbrugh born (d.
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1726).
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son. 1664 Death of Sanderson.
1656 Pascal's Lettres provinciales. 1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
1657 John Dennis born (d. 1734). 1664 Dryden's Rival-Ladies.
1658 Death of Oliver Cromwell 1664 Etherege's Comical Revenge.
1658 Richard Cromwell Protector. 1664 Evelyn's Sylva.
1659 Dryden's Poem upon the death 1664 Wilson's Projectors.
of Oliver, Lord Protector.
Plague
1659 More's Immortality of the
1665 Head's English Rogue.
Soul.
1665 Sir R. Howard's Foure New
1659 Pearson's Exposition of the Plays.
Creed.
1665 La Fontaine's Contes.
1659 Thomas Rugge's Diurnall 1665 La Rochefoucauld's Maximes.
(unpublished) begins.
1666 Fire of London.
1659 Stillingfleet's Irenicum.
1666 The London Gazette begins.
1659 The Whole Duty of Man. 1666 Dryden's Annus Mirabilis.
1659 Molière's Précieuses Ridicules. 1666 Dugdale's Origines juri-
1660 Restoration.
dicales.
1660 Dryden's Astraea Redux. 1666 Willis's Anatome cerebri.
1660 Pepys begins his diary (ptd 1667 Death of Cowley.
1825).
1667 Dryden's Secret Love.
1660 John Smith's Select Dis- 1667 Sprat's History of the Royal
courses.
Society.
1660 Thomas Southerne born (d. 1667 Molière's Tartuffe.
1746).
1667 Racine's Andromaque.
1660 Madeleine de Soudéry's Al- 1668 Death of D'Avenant.
mahide.
1668 Dryden's An Evening's Love.
## p. 486 (#508) ############################################
486
Table of Principal Dates
1668 Dryden's Essay of Dramatick 1678 The popish plot.
Poesie.
1678 Narcissus Luttrell's Brief
1668 Sedley's Mulberry Garden. historical relation begins (ptd
1668 La Fontaine's Fables.
1857).
1668 Molière's Avare.
1678 George Farquhar born (d.
1668 Racine's Plaideurs.
1707).
1669 Pepys ends his diary.
1678 Death of Andrew Marvell.
1669 Death of Sir John Denham. 1678 Cudworth's True Intellectual
1669 Penn's No Cross No Crown. System of the Universe.
1669 Katherine Philips's Poems. 1678 Dryden's All for Love.
1669 Anthony à Wood's Antiquities 1678 Otway's Friendship in
of Oxford.
Fashion.
1669-70 Dryden's Conquest of 1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the
Granada.
Last Age.
1670 William Congreve born (d. 1678 South's Sermons.
1729).
1679 Death of Hobbes.
1670 Dryden appointed poet 1679 Dryden's Preface concerning
laureate.
the Grounds of Criticism in
1670 Mayow's experiments on re- Tragedy (with Troilus and
spiration.
Cressida).
1670 Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- 1679 Oldham's Satyrs upon the
homme.
Jesuits.
1670 Pascal's Pensées.
1679 Collected edition of the Year
1671 Colley Cibber born (d. 1757)
Books.
1671 The Rehearsal.
1680 Burnet's Some passages in the
1671 Tillotson's Sermons.
Life and Death of the Earl of
1672 Addison born (d. 1719).
Rochester.
1672 Cumberland's De legibus 1680 Lee's Theodosius.
Naturae.
1680 Otway's Orphan.
1672 Dryden's essay Of Heroick 1680 Temple's Miscellanea, Pt i
Plays.
(Pt 11 1690; Pt 1 1701).
1672 Puffendorf's De jure naturae 1681 Dryden's Absalom and Achi-
et gentium.
tophel, Pt 1.
1673 Death of Molière.
1681 Dryden's Spanish Fryar.
1673 Settle's The Empress of 1681 Glanvill's Sadducismus trium-
Morocco.
phatus.
1674 Death of Milton.
1681 Hobbes's Dialogue between a
1674 Nicholas Rowe born (d. 1718). Philosopher and a Student of
1674 Wycherley's The Plain the Common Law ptd.
Dealer acted (ptd 1677).
1682 Death of Sir Thomas Browne.
1674 Boileau's Lutrin and Art 1682 Advocates' library founded.
Poétique.
1682 Banks's Unhappy Favourite
1674 Delphin classics.
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. 1696).
1628 Harvey's Exercitatio.
1628-44 Coke's Institutes.
1630 Isaac Barrow born (d. 1677).
1630 Sir Richard Bulstrode born
(d. 1711).
1630 John Tillotson born (d. 1694).
1631 Richard Cumberland, bp of
Peterborough, born (d. 1718).
1631 John Dryden born (d. 1700).
1632 Samuel Pepys born (d. 1703).
1633 (? ) Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl
of Roscommon, born (d. 1685).
1634 Sir George Etherege born
(d. 1691).
1634 Sir John Reresby born (d. 1689).
1634 Académie française founded.
1635 Edward Stillingfleet born (d.
1699).
1636 Joseph Glanvill born (d. 1680).
1636 Selden's Mare Clausum.
1636 Corneille's Cid.
1638 Charles Sackville, 6th earl of
Dorset, born (d. 1706).
1638 Corneillo's Cid acted in Eng-
lish.
1639 () Sir Charles Sedley born
(d. 1701).
1640 Mrs Aphra Behn born (d.
1689).
1640 William Wycherley born (d.
1716).
1641 Thomas Rymer born (d. 1713).
1641 Evelyn's Diary begins (ptd
1818).
1641 Shelton's Tachygraphy.
1642 Closing of theatres.
1642 (? ) Thomas Shadwell born (d.
1692).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715).
1644 William Penn born (d. 1718).
1646 (? ) Anthony Hamilton born (d.
1720).
1647 John Wilmot, 2nd earl of
Rochester, born (d. 1680).
1647 Henry More's Philosophicall
Poems.
1647 Selden's Fleta.
1648 Robert Barclay born (d. 1690).
1648 Elkanah Settle born (d. 1724).
1648 John Sheffield, 3rd earl of
Mulgrave, 1st duke of Bucking-
hamshire and Normanby, born
(d. 1721).
## p. 485 (#507) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
485
1648 Death of lord Herbert of 1661 Boyle's law of compressi-
Cherbury.
bility.
1648 Joseph Beaumont's Psyche. 1661 Thomas Fuller died.
1649 Execution of Charles I. 1661 Glanvill's Vanity of Dogma-
Commonwealth.
tizing.
1650 Madeleine de Scudéry's Grand 1661 Graunt's Natural and Poli.
Cyrus.
tical Observations on the Bills
1650 Glisson's Tractatus de Rachi- of Mortality.
tide.
1662 Act of Uniformity.
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
1662 Royal Society's charter.
1651 D'Avenant's Gondibert.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742).
1652 Thomas Otway born (d. 1685). 1662 Henry More's prose works
1652 Culverwel's Light of Nature. collected.
1652-4 Dorothy Osborne's Letters 1662 Sir W. Petty's Treatise of
(ptd 1888).
Taxes and Contributions.
1653 Oliver Cromwell Protector. 1662 Stillingfleet's Origines sacrae.
1653 Thomas D'Urfey born (d. 1723). 1662 Wilson's Cheats.
1653 (? ) Nathaniel Lee born (d. 1663 Butler's Audibras, Pt 1 (Pt II
1692).
1664; Pt 1 1678).
1653 John Oldham born (d. 1683). 1663 Cowley's Cutter of Coleman
1653 Urquhart's Rabelais, Books 1, Street.
II (Book 111 1693-4; Books iv, v, 1663 Dryden's Wild Gallant
by Motteux, 1708).
1663 Katherine Philips's version of
1653-5 Scudéry's Grand Cyrus in Corneille's Pompée.
English,
1663 Edward Somerset 2nd mar-
1655 Wallis's Arithmetica Infini- quis of Worcester's Century of
torum.
Inventions.
1656 D'Avenant's Siege of Rhodes. 1664 Sir John Vanbrugh born (d.
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1726).
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son. 1664 Death of Sanderson.
1656 Pascal's Lettres provinciales. 1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
1657 John Dennis born (d. 1734). 1664 Dryden's Rival-Ladies.
1658 Death of Oliver Cromwell 1664 Etherege's Comical Revenge.
1658 Richard Cromwell Protector. 1664 Evelyn's Sylva.
1659 Dryden's Poem upon the death 1664 Wilson's Projectors.
of Oliver, Lord Protector.
Plague
1659 More's Immortality of the
1665 Head's English Rogue.
Soul.
1665 Sir R. Howard's Foure New
1659 Pearson's Exposition of the Plays.
Creed.
1665 La Fontaine's Contes.
1659 Thomas Rugge's Diurnall 1665 La Rochefoucauld's Maximes.
(unpublished) begins.
1666 Fire of London.
1659 Stillingfleet's Irenicum.
1666 The London Gazette begins.
1659 The Whole Duty of Man. 1666 Dryden's Annus Mirabilis.
1659 Molière's Précieuses Ridicules. 1666 Dugdale's Origines juri-
1660 Restoration.
dicales.
1660 Dryden's Astraea Redux. 1666 Willis's Anatome cerebri.
1660 Pepys begins his diary (ptd 1667 Death of Cowley.
1825).
1667 Dryden's Secret Love.
1660 John Smith's Select Dis- 1667 Sprat's History of the Royal
courses.
Society.
1660 Thomas Southerne born (d. 1667 Molière's Tartuffe.
1746).
1667 Racine's Andromaque.
1660 Madeleine de Soudéry's Al- 1668 Death of D'Avenant.
mahide.
1668 Dryden's An Evening's Love.
## p. 486 (#508) ############################################
486
Table of Principal Dates
1668 Dryden's Essay of Dramatick 1678 The popish plot.
Poesie.
1678 Narcissus Luttrell's Brief
1668 Sedley's Mulberry Garden. historical relation begins (ptd
1668 La Fontaine's Fables.
1857).
1668 Molière's Avare.
1678 George Farquhar born (d.
1668 Racine's Plaideurs.
1707).
1669 Pepys ends his diary.
1678 Death of Andrew Marvell.
1669 Death of Sir John Denham. 1678 Cudworth's True Intellectual
1669 Penn's No Cross No Crown. System of the Universe.
1669 Katherine Philips's Poems. 1678 Dryden's All for Love.
1669 Anthony à Wood's Antiquities 1678 Otway's Friendship in
of Oxford.
Fashion.
1669-70 Dryden's Conquest of 1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the
Granada.
Last Age.
1670 William Congreve born (d. 1678 South's Sermons.
1729).
1679 Death of Hobbes.
1670 Dryden appointed poet 1679 Dryden's Preface concerning
laureate.
the Grounds of Criticism in
1670 Mayow's experiments on re- Tragedy (with Troilus and
spiration.
Cressida).
1670 Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- 1679 Oldham's Satyrs upon the
homme.
Jesuits.
1670 Pascal's Pensées.
1679 Collected edition of the Year
1671 Colley Cibber born (d. 1757)
Books.
1671 The Rehearsal.
1680 Burnet's Some passages in the
1671 Tillotson's Sermons.
Life and Death of the Earl of
1672 Addison born (d. 1719).
Rochester.
1672 Cumberland's De legibus 1680 Lee's Theodosius.
Naturae.
1680 Otway's Orphan.
1672 Dryden's essay Of Heroick 1680 Temple's Miscellanea, Pt i
Plays.
(Pt 11 1690; Pt 1 1701).
1672 Puffendorf's De jure naturae 1681 Dryden's Absalom and Achi-
et gentium.
tophel, Pt 1.
1673 Death of Molière.
1681 Dryden's Spanish Fryar.
1673 Settle's The Empress of 1681 Glanvill's Sadducismus trium-
Morocco.
phatus.
1674 Death of Milton.
1681 Hobbes's Dialogue between a
1674 Nicholas Rowe born (d. 1718). Philosopher and a Student of
1674 Wycherley's The Plain the Common Law ptd.
Dealer acted (ptd 1677).
1682 Death of Sir Thomas Browne.
1674 Boileau's Lutrin and Art 1682 Advocates' library founded.
Poétique.
1682 Banks's Unhappy Favourite
1674 Delphin classics.
