The laws of
Ethelbert
of
Kent and other early kings.
Kent and other early kings.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
The
Plain Dealer .
115
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VI
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. II
PAGE
By CHARLES WAIBLEY, M. A. , Honorary Fellow of Jesus College
Congreve. The Old Bachelor. The Double-Dealer. Love for Love.
The Mourning Bride. The Way of the World. Congreve and
the comedy of manners. His comic art. His diction. His friends
and way of life. Vanbrugh's life and character. The Relapse.
The Provok'd Wife. The Confederacy. Vanbragh and Perrault.
Earlier attacks in this period on the stage: Rymer's Short View
of Tragedy. Jeremy Collier's Short View. Its invective and its
fallacies. Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden,
D'Urfey and Dennis. Farquhar as a comic dramatist. Love and
a Bottle; A Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the
Beaux. Stratagem. Shadwell. D'Urfey. Colley Cibber's earlier
plays. His Apology for his Life.
146
CHAPTER VII
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. III
By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A. , Peterhouse, and of the
University Library
Characteristics of lesser restoration tragedy. Publio interest in
acting. The operatio element. The heroio play. Fresh influence
on restoration tragedy. Translations of Corneille. Influence of
Racine. Revived influence of earlier English work. Otway and
his career as a dramatist. The Orphan and Venice Preserv'd.
Their enduring popularity. Nathaniel Lee. Characteristics of
his plays. The Rival Queens, Crowne. Sir Courtly Nice.
His tragedies. Southerne. The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko.
Settle. Dennis. Banks. Hughes. Lansdowne. Ravenscroft.
Nicholas Rowe as a link between the later restoration drama and
that of the Augustan age. The Fair Penitent.
178
CHAPTER VIII
THE COURT POETS
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M. A.
The lives and writings of the court poets as a protest against the
puritan domination. The circle of Whitehall. The pranks of the
wits. The court poets as men of action: Rochester, Buckhurst
and Mulgrave. The mark of the amateur on their writings.
Dryden's flattery of them. Rochester's life and character. His
quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden. Rochester as a satirist: The
Satire against Mankind. Sir Charles Sedley. His songs. Buck-
hurst: To all you Ladies now at Land. Mulgrave's Essay upon
Poetry. Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse
198
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X
Contents
CHAPTER IX
THE PROSODY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A, F. B. A. , LL. D. , D. Litt.
PAGE
The Spenserian era of English versification. Loss of elasticity and
diversity. Variations of the iambio line. Insufficient understand-
ing as to equivalence in feet. Decline of blank verse. The
redundant syllable and other means of varying the measure. "The
battle of the couplets’: Waller and Cowley. Miscellaneous
metric: Jonson and others. Milton's metrical development. The
anapaest as the chief base-foot of metre. The octosyllabic couplet.
The 'pindario' of Cowley and his followers. Dryden and the
heroio couplet. Perceptive prosody: Jonson and Dryden.
222
CHAPTER X
MEMOIR AND LETTER WRITERS
By HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F. S. A.
I. EVELYN AND PEPYS
Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys published as written. Narcissus Luttrell's
Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs. Evelyn's and Pepys's
diaries compared. Evelyn's father, younger days, travels and
marriage. His later life and activities. Evelyn and the Royal
Society. His love of planting: Sylva. His public services. His
Life of Mrs Godolphin. Pepys's early life and marriage. Pepys
on the Naseby. His service in the navy office. His blindness
and the closing of the diary. Pepys and the popish plot. His
later years. Character and charm of the diary.
241
.
II. OTHER WRITERS OF MEMOIRS AND LETTERS
A.
Anthony Hamilton's Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont.
Question of the trustworthiness of these Memoirs. The writer and
his work. Memoirs of Sir John Reresby
261
B.
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D.
Letters and Memoirs of Sir Richard Bulstrode. Diary of Henry
Sidney (earl of Romney). Diary of lady Warwick. Her Occa-
sional Meditations. Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe. Letters of
Rachel Lady Russell. Memoirs of Queen Mary II
266
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Contents
xi
CHAPTER XI
PLATONISTS AND LATITUDINARIANS
By J. Bass MULLINGER, M. A. , St John's College
PAGE
Distinction between the Cambridge Platonists and the latitudinarians.
Benjamin Whichcote. His position as defined by himself. His
Aphorisms and Sermons. Whichcote not a Platonist. Henry
More. His life and habits. Cudworth and his Treatise concerning
Eternal and Immutable Morality. More's Song of the Soul.
Joseph Beaumont's Psyche. More's Immortality of the Soul,
Grand Mystery of Godliness and Mystery of Iniquity His
Divine Dialogues. Cudworth's True Intellectual System of
the Universe. More and Cudworth compared. John Smith's
Select Discourses. John Smith and Henry More contrasted.
Culverwels Light of Nature. George Rust (bishop of Dromore).
Glanvill's Lux Orientalis. His controversy with Henry Stubbs.
Richard Cumberland (bishop of Peterborough) and other con-
tributors to the latitudinarian movement.
273
CHAPTER XII
DIVINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
1660-1700
By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B. D. , Archdeacon of Northampton,
Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St John's College,
Oxford
Old and new influences on the style of the English pulpit in the
period following the restoration. Gradual transition. Herbert
Thorndike, John Cosin and George Morley. Isaac Barrow: his
sermons and his treatise on the Pope's Supremacy. Pearson's
Exposition of the Creed. John Wilkins as a link with the later
generation. Robert Leighton and his preaching. Burnet as a
theologian. His Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles. His
Pastoral Care. Stillingfleet and Patrick. Fashionable preachers
of the age. Extempore preaching begins to be popular. Tillotson.
South and the controversial style. Sherlock. Samuel Parker's
Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity. Henry Compton's Episco-
palia. George Bull. Sancroft's Fur Praedestinatus. Henry
Wharton. Non-jurors: Ken, Kettlewell, Dodwell and Hickes.
Robert Nelson's Companion for the Festivals and Fasts. In.
fluence of foreign, and especially of French, culture upon English
divines
293
## p. xii (#18) #############################################
xii
Contents
CHAPTER XIII
LEGAL LITERATURE
I
By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW, M. A. , LL. D. , formerly scholar of Peter-
house, Professor of History in King's College, University of
London
PAGE
The beginnings of English legal literature.
The laws of Ethelbert of
Kent and other early kings. The era of the capitularies. Com-
plications introduced by the Norman conquest. - English common
law in the twelfth century. New type of legal writings: Tractatus
de Legibus et Consuetudinibus R. Angliae, called by the name of
Ranulf de Glanvil. Bracton's treatise bearing the same title.
Fleta and Britton. The Year Books and their value. Fortescue's
De Laudibus Legum Angliae and Littleton's Tenures. Early
printed law books. Law Reports. Equity and common law:
Bacon and Cowell; Coke. Selden and his legal works. English
as the language of the law. Sir Matthew Hale. Revival of the
common law, and of the use of Latin and French. Sir William
Dugdale and William Prynne. Hobbes and the advent of a new
era
309
II
SELDEN'S Table-Talk
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D.
Predecessors of Selden's Table-Talk. Authenticity of the book.
Scanty references to personal experiences. Chief political and
religious topics. Selden's wit and wisdom
321
0
CHAPTER XIV
JOHN LOCKE
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
Locke the most important figure in English philosophy. His personal
and literary life. Controversy with Stillingfleet. The 'new way
of ideas' opened by Locke. Plan of An Essay concerning Human
Understanding. Locke's doctrine of knowledge. Its nature and
extent. "The twilight of probability. Two Treatises of Govern-
ment. Economic writings. Economists contemporary with Locke:
Sir William Petty. Letters concerning Toleration. Earlier pleas.
Locke's views on church and state. Thoughts concerning Educa-
tion; Locke's theory. His critics and followers. Richard Bur.
thogge. John Norris and his Ideal World
328
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Contents
X111
CHAPTER XV
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc. D. , F. R. S. , Master of Christ's College
PAGE
Lateness of the scientific reawakening. Outburst of scientific enquiry
in the seventeenth century and its causes. The heritage of Bacon.
Milton and scientific enquiry. Lord Herbert of Cherbury. His
knowledge of medicine and allied subjects. Evelyn and Pepys.
Witches, astrologers and alchemists. Intelligence of the Stewarts
in matters scientific: Charles II and prince Rupert. The marquis
of Worcester. Sir Kenelm Digby. Mathematics: John Wallis
and Seth Ward; Newton. Harvey and the circulation of the
blood. Other great physiologists and physicians: Sir Theodore de
Mayerne; John Mayow; Thomas Sydenham; Francis Glisson.
bert Boyle. Origin and beginnings of the Royal Society.
Contemporary poets and scientific research : Cowley, Donne, Butler.
Political economists of the seventeenth century: Sir William
Petty and Locke
:
349
CHAPTER XVI
THE ESSAY AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN
ENGLISH PROSE
By A. A. TILLEY, M. A. , Fellow of King's College
The new prose and its causes. Interest in science and demand for
clearness of style. Growing plainness and simplicity of pulpit
oratory. The style of Dryden and its conversational character.
Early beginnings of French influence on English literature; its
increase under Charles I. English exiles in France: D'Avenant,
Cowley and others. French influence through translations. Heroic
romances. Urquhart's Rabelais; Pascal; Descartes; Corneille,
Racine and Molière. Influence of French criticism. Boileau.
Chapelain, Le Bossu and Dacier. Evidence of Dryden, Rapin and
Rymer. Saint-Évremond and the renewal of the popularity of
Montaigne in England. Francis Osborne. Cowley's Essays.
Sir William Temple, Dorothy Osborne and lady Giffard. Temple's
letters and Memoirs. His miscellaneous works: Essays. In-
fluence of Montaigne. Halifax's Miscellanies: The Character of
a Trimmer; A Letter to a Dissenter. Clarendon's Essays. Dry-
den's influence on English style. The Preface to the Fables
368
391
Bibliographies.
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
484
488
## p. xiv (#20) #############################################
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME VIII. THE AGE OF DRYDEN
Second Impression, 1920, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
p. 50, 11. 6, 7. Mr H. B. Wheatley had in his possession Tonson's accounts with
Dryden, which give some further information as to the terms of the subscription.
p. 215, 11. 14–19 should be omitted. The verses, “Why dost thou shade thy lovely
face,' here ascribed to Rochester, are the work of Quarles, and were first published in
his Emblems. They have been printed in many editions of Rochester's poems, but
whether they were claimed by him in jest, or falsely attributed to him by his editors,
we have no means of knowing.
The following additions should be made to the bibliographies :
pp. 391 ff. chapter i. Dryden:
Under Drydeniana:
Villiers, George, 2nd duke of Buckingham. The Rehearsal. Ed. Summers, M.
Shakespeare Head Press. 1914.
Under Modern Criticism:
Babington, Percy L. Dryden not the Author of “Macflecknoe. ' Rptd from The
Modern Language Review, Vol. xm, No. 1, January 1918.
[An attempt, notable, but not convincing, to father MacFlecknoe on Oldham. ]
Boas, F. S. Stage Censorship under Charles I. I. The Amboyna Outrage. The
Times Literary Supplement, 13 Dec. 1917.
[An extremely interesting account of an earlier dramatic treatment (1633) of
the same incident. ]
Verrall, A. W. Dryden. In Collected Literary Essays, Classical and Modern. Ed.
Bayfield, M. A. , and Duff, J. D. (1913).
Lectures on Dryden. Ed. Margaret de G. Verrall. Cambridge, 1914.
pp. 416 ff. chapters v, vi and vii. The Restoration Drama:
Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642–
1780). 1914.
pp. 464 ff. chapter xil. Legal Literature:
Worrall, John. Bibliotheca Legum: a new and complete list of the Common and
Statute Law Books of this Realm up to 1735, Alphabetically arranged. 1736.
## p. xvi (#22) #############################################
pp. 471 ff. chapter xiv. John Locke:
Locke, John. Lettres inédites à ses amis. Ed. Ollion, H. and Boei, T. J. de. La
Haye, 1912.
Gibson, J. Locke's Theory of Knowledge. Cambridge, 1917.
pp. 480 ff. chapter xvi. The Essay and the beginning of Modern English Prose :
Cowley, Abraham. Essays and other Prose Writings. Ed. Gough, A. B. Oxford,
1915.
Savile, George, Marquis of Halifax. Complete Works. Ed. Raleigh, Sir W. Oxford,
1912.
Under B.
Plain Dealer .
115
## p. ix (#15) ##############################################
Contents
ix
CHAPTER VI
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. II
PAGE
By CHARLES WAIBLEY, M. A. , Honorary Fellow of Jesus College
Congreve. The Old Bachelor. The Double-Dealer. Love for Love.
The Mourning Bride. The Way of the World. Congreve and
the comedy of manners. His comic art. His diction. His friends
and way of life. Vanbrugh's life and character. The Relapse.
The Provok'd Wife. The Confederacy. Vanbragh and Perrault.
Earlier attacks in this period on the stage: Rymer's Short View
of Tragedy. Jeremy Collier's Short View. Its invective and its
fallacies. Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden,
D'Urfey and Dennis. Farquhar as a comic dramatist. Love and
a Bottle; A Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the
Beaux. Stratagem. Shadwell. D'Urfey. Colley Cibber's earlier
plays. His Apology for his Life.
146
CHAPTER VII
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. III
By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A. , Peterhouse, and of the
University Library
Characteristics of lesser restoration tragedy. Publio interest in
acting. The operatio element. The heroio play. Fresh influence
on restoration tragedy. Translations of Corneille. Influence of
Racine. Revived influence of earlier English work. Otway and
his career as a dramatist. The Orphan and Venice Preserv'd.
Their enduring popularity. Nathaniel Lee. Characteristics of
his plays. The Rival Queens, Crowne. Sir Courtly Nice.
His tragedies. Southerne. The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko.
Settle. Dennis. Banks. Hughes. Lansdowne. Ravenscroft.
Nicholas Rowe as a link between the later restoration drama and
that of the Augustan age. The Fair Penitent.
178
CHAPTER VIII
THE COURT POETS
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M. A.
The lives and writings of the court poets as a protest against the
puritan domination. The circle of Whitehall. The pranks of the
wits. The court poets as men of action: Rochester, Buckhurst
and Mulgrave. The mark of the amateur on their writings.
Dryden's flattery of them. Rochester's life and character. His
quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden. Rochester as a satirist: The
Satire against Mankind. Sir Charles Sedley. His songs. Buck-
hurst: To all you Ladies now at Land. Mulgrave's Essay upon
Poetry. Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse
198
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X
Contents
CHAPTER IX
THE PROSODY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A, F. B. A. , LL. D. , D. Litt.
PAGE
The Spenserian era of English versification. Loss of elasticity and
diversity. Variations of the iambio line. Insufficient understand-
ing as to equivalence in feet. Decline of blank verse. The
redundant syllable and other means of varying the measure. "The
battle of the couplets’: Waller and Cowley. Miscellaneous
metric: Jonson and others. Milton's metrical development. The
anapaest as the chief base-foot of metre. The octosyllabic couplet.
The 'pindario' of Cowley and his followers. Dryden and the
heroio couplet. Perceptive prosody: Jonson and Dryden.
222
CHAPTER X
MEMOIR AND LETTER WRITERS
By HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F. S. A.
I. EVELYN AND PEPYS
Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys published as written. Narcissus Luttrell's
Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs. Evelyn's and Pepys's
diaries compared. Evelyn's father, younger days, travels and
marriage. His later life and activities. Evelyn and the Royal
Society. His love of planting: Sylva. His public services. His
Life of Mrs Godolphin. Pepys's early life and marriage. Pepys
on the Naseby. His service in the navy office. His blindness
and the closing of the diary. Pepys and the popish plot. His
later years. Character and charm of the diary.
241
.
II. OTHER WRITERS OF MEMOIRS AND LETTERS
A.
Anthony Hamilton's Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont.
Question of the trustworthiness of these Memoirs. The writer and
his work. Memoirs of Sir John Reresby
261
B.
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D.
Letters and Memoirs of Sir Richard Bulstrode. Diary of Henry
Sidney (earl of Romney). Diary of lady Warwick. Her Occa-
sional Meditations. Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe. Letters of
Rachel Lady Russell. Memoirs of Queen Mary II
266
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Contents
xi
CHAPTER XI
PLATONISTS AND LATITUDINARIANS
By J. Bass MULLINGER, M. A. , St John's College
PAGE
Distinction between the Cambridge Platonists and the latitudinarians.
Benjamin Whichcote. His position as defined by himself. His
Aphorisms and Sermons. Whichcote not a Platonist. Henry
More. His life and habits. Cudworth and his Treatise concerning
Eternal and Immutable Morality. More's Song of the Soul.
Joseph Beaumont's Psyche. More's Immortality of the Soul,
Grand Mystery of Godliness and Mystery of Iniquity His
Divine Dialogues. Cudworth's True Intellectual System of
the Universe. More and Cudworth compared. John Smith's
Select Discourses. John Smith and Henry More contrasted.
Culverwels Light of Nature. George Rust (bishop of Dromore).
Glanvill's Lux Orientalis. His controversy with Henry Stubbs.
Richard Cumberland (bishop of Peterborough) and other con-
tributors to the latitudinarian movement.
273
CHAPTER XII
DIVINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
1660-1700
By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B. D. , Archdeacon of Northampton,
Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St John's College,
Oxford
Old and new influences on the style of the English pulpit in the
period following the restoration. Gradual transition. Herbert
Thorndike, John Cosin and George Morley. Isaac Barrow: his
sermons and his treatise on the Pope's Supremacy. Pearson's
Exposition of the Creed. John Wilkins as a link with the later
generation. Robert Leighton and his preaching. Burnet as a
theologian. His Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles. His
Pastoral Care. Stillingfleet and Patrick. Fashionable preachers
of the age. Extempore preaching begins to be popular. Tillotson.
South and the controversial style. Sherlock. Samuel Parker's
Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity. Henry Compton's Episco-
palia. George Bull. Sancroft's Fur Praedestinatus. Henry
Wharton. Non-jurors: Ken, Kettlewell, Dodwell and Hickes.
Robert Nelson's Companion for the Festivals and Fasts. In.
fluence of foreign, and especially of French, culture upon English
divines
293
## p. xii (#18) #############################################
xii
Contents
CHAPTER XIII
LEGAL LITERATURE
I
By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW, M. A. , LL. D. , formerly scholar of Peter-
house, Professor of History in King's College, University of
London
PAGE
The beginnings of English legal literature.
The laws of Ethelbert of
Kent and other early kings. The era of the capitularies. Com-
plications introduced by the Norman conquest. - English common
law in the twelfth century. New type of legal writings: Tractatus
de Legibus et Consuetudinibus R. Angliae, called by the name of
Ranulf de Glanvil. Bracton's treatise bearing the same title.
Fleta and Britton. The Year Books and their value. Fortescue's
De Laudibus Legum Angliae and Littleton's Tenures. Early
printed law books. Law Reports. Equity and common law:
Bacon and Cowell; Coke. Selden and his legal works. English
as the language of the law. Sir Matthew Hale. Revival of the
common law, and of the use of Latin and French. Sir William
Dugdale and William Prynne. Hobbes and the advent of a new
era
309
II
SELDEN'S Table-Talk
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D.
Predecessors of Selden's Table-Talk. Authenticity of the book.
Scanty references to personal experiences. Chief political and
religious topics. Selden's wit and wisdom
321
0
CHAPTER XIV
JOHN LOCKE
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
Locke the most important figure in English philosophy. His personal
and literary life. Controversy with Stillingfleet. The 'new way
of ideas' opened by Locke. Plan of An Essay concerning Human
Understanding. Locke's doctrine of knowledge. Its nature and
extent. "The twilight of probability. Two Treatises of Govern-
ment. Economic writings. Economists contemporary with Locke:
Sir William Petty. Letters concerning Toleration. Earlier pleas.
Locke's views on church and state. Thoughts concerning Educa-
tion; Locke's theory. His critics and followers. Richard Bur.
thogge. John Norris and his Ideal World
328
## p. xiii (#19) ############################################
Contents
X111
CHAPTER XV
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc. D. , F. R. S. , Master of Christ's College
PAGE
Lateness of the scientific reawakening. Outburst of scientific enquiry
in the seventeenth century and its causes. The heritage of Bacon.
Milton and scientific enquiry. Lord Herbert of Cherbury. His
knowledge of medicine and allied subjects. Evelyn and Pepys.
Witches, astrologers and alchemists. Intelligence of the Stewarts
in matters scientific: Charles II and prince Rupert. The marquis
of Worcester. Sir Kenelm Digby. Mathematics: John Wallis
and Seth Ward; Newton. Harvey and the circulation of the
blood. Other great physiologists and physicians: Sir Theodore de
Mayerne; John Mayow; Thomas Sydenham; Francis Glisson.
bert Boyle. Origin and beginnings of the Royal Society.
Contemporary poets and scientific research : Cowley, Donne, Butler.
Political economists of the seventeenth century: Sir William
Petty and Locke
:
349
CHAPTER XVI
THE ESSAY AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN
ENGLISH PROSE
By A. A. TILLEY, M. A. , Fellow of King's College
The new prose and its causes. Interest in science and demand for
clearness of style. Growing plainness and simplicity of pulpit
oratory. The style of Dryden and its conversational character.
Early beginnings of French influence on English literature; its
increase under Charles I. English exiles in France: D'Avenant,
Cowley and others. French influence through translations. Heroic
romances. Urquhart's Rabelais; Pascal; Descartes; Corneille,
Racine and Molière. Influence of French criticism. Boileau.
Chapelain, Le Bossu and Dacier. Evidence of Dryden, Rapin and
Rymer. Saint-Évremond and the renewal of the popularity of
Montaigne in England. Francis Osborne. Cowley's Essays.
Sir William Temple, Dorothy Osborne and lady Giffard. Temple's
letters and Memoirs. His miscellaneous works: Essays. In-
fluence of Montaigne. Halifax's Miscellanies: The Character of
a Trimmer; A Letter to a Dissenter. Clarendon's Essays. Dry-
den's influence on English style. The Preface to the Fables
368
391
Bibliographies.
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
484
488
## p. xiv (#20) #############################################
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME VIII. THE AGE OF DRYDEN
Second Impression, 1920, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
p. 50, 11. 6, 7. Mr H. B. Wheatley had in his possession Tonson's accounts with
Dryden, which give some further information as to the terms of the subscription.
p. 215, 11. 14–19 should be omitted. The verses, “Why dost thou shade thy lovely
face,' here ascribed to Rochester, are the work of Quarles, and were first published in
his Emblems. They have been printed in many editions of Rochester's poems, but
whether they were claimed by him in jest, or falsely attributed to him by his editors,
we have no means of knowing.
The following additions should be made to the bibliographies :
pp. 391 ff. chapter i. Dryden:
Under Drydeniana:
Villiers, George, 2nd duke of Buckingham. The Rehearsal. Ed. Summers, M.
Shakespeare Head Press. 1914.
Under Modern Criticism:
Babington, Percy L. Dryden not the Author of “Macflecknoe. ' Rptd from The
Modern Language Review, Vol. xm, No. 1, January 1918.
[An attempt, notable, but not convincing, to father MacFlecknoe on Oldham. ]
Boas, F. S. Stage Censorship under Charles I. I. The Amboyna Outrage. The
Times Literary Supplement, 13 Dec. 1917.
[An extremely interesting account of an earlier dramatic treatment (1633) of
the same incident. ]
Verrall, A. W. Dryden. In Collected Literary Essays, Classical and Modern. Ed.
Bayfield, M. A. , and Duff, J. D. (1913).
Lectures on Dryden. Ed. Margaret de G. Verrall. Cambridge, 1914.
pp. 416 ff. chapters v, vi and vii. The Restoration Drama:
Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642–
1780). 1914.
pp. 464 ff. chapter xil. Legal Literature:
Worrall, John. Bibliotheca Legum: a new and complete list of the Common and
Statute Law Books of this Realm up to 1735, Alphabetically arranged. 1736.
## p. xvi (#22) #############################################
pp. 471 ff. chapter xiv. John Locke:
Locke, John. Lettres inédites à ses amis. Ed. Ollion, H. and Boei, T. J. de. La
Haye, 1912.
Gibson, J. Locke's Theory of Knowledge. Cambridge, 1917.
pp. 480 ff. chapter xvi. The Essay and the beginning of Modern English Prose :
Cowley, Abraham. Essays and other Prose Writings. Ed. Gough, A. B. Oxford,
1915.
Savile, George, Marquis of Halifax. Complete Works. Ed. Raleigh, Sir W. Oxford,
1912.
Under B.
