The Oxford
Tutorial
System.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
A.
Henry St John's Earlier Life and Letters. His Contributions to The
Examiner. A Letter to Sir William Wyndham. Bolingbroke
in France. His political activity after his return home. The
Craftsman and its Contributors. Bolingbroke's Remarks upon
the History of England; Dissertation upon Parties ; Letters
on the Study and Use of History; Letter on the Spirit of
Patriotism; Idea of a Patriot King. His last Political Pamphlets.
Qualities of his Style. Historical and Political Writers con-
temporary with Bolingbroke: White Kennett; Echard; Rapin;
Lediard; Tindal; Boyer; Oldmixon. Roger North’s Lives of the
Norths. Merits of these Biographies
216
CHAPTER IX
MEMOIR-WRITERS, 1715-60
By THOMAS SECCOMBE, M. A.
English Society under the First Two Georges. Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu. The Story of her Life. Her Turkish Letters. Her
other writings in Verse and Prose. Lady Cowper's Diary.
Correspondence of Lady Suffolk. Lord Hervey and Lady Mary.
His Political Career. His Memoirs and their Character. Memoirs
of Lord Waldegrave and Melcombe (George Bubb Dodington)
243
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Contents
xi
CHAPTER X
WRITERS OF BURLESQUE AND TRANSLATORS
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M. A. , Hon. Fellow of
Jesus College
PAGE
The Underworld of Letters and its Vagabond Inhabitants. Their
love of Burlesque and Indebtedness to Scarron. His Imitators in
France and in England. Charles Cotton's, Monsey's and John
Phillips's Travesties of Vergil, Scudamore's of Homer and Alexander
Radcliffe's of Ovid. Hudibras and Hudibrastic Verse. Ned
Ward's Hudibras Redivivus, Vulgus Britannicus and London
Spy. Tom Brown's Amusements for the Meridian of London.
The New Art of Translation Versions of Petronius. John
Phillips's Literary Career. His Don Quixote. Motteux and his
Translation of Rabelais. Roger L'Estrange as a Translator.
His Selection of Originals. His Aesop. Charles Cotton and his
Montaigne. John Stevens and his Services to English knowledge
of Spanish Literature
255
CHAPTER XI
BERKELEY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
English Thought in the Period after the Death of Locke. I. Meta-
physicians: Berkeley's Life and Authorship before and after his
sojourn in America. Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher.
Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. The Merits of the Essay
as a work of Psychological Analysis. Treatise concerning the
Principles of Human Knowledge. Berkeley's Idealism. His
place in the History of Thought. His Common-place Book.
Arthur Collier. II. Deists. The Deistical Controversy in English
Theology. Charles Blount. Charles Leslie as Champion of
Orthodoxy. Toland's Christianity not Mysterious. His Literary
Career and Philosophical Development: Letters to Serena ;
Pantheisticon. Anthony Collins's Discourse of Free-thinking.
Tindals Christianity as old as the Creation. Other Deistical
Writers: Woolston; Chubb; Morgan; Henry Dodwell the younger.
Influence of Deism. Bolingbroke. Whiston's Primitive Chris-
tianity Revived. Opponents of the Deists: William Warburton.
III. Moralists. Samuel Clarke and Rational Ethics. Shaftesbury;
his Characteristics of Men and Manners. Hutcheson. Mandeville's
Fable of the Bees. Bishop Butler's Fifteen Sermons and Analogy.
Exhaustiveness of Butler's Reasonings
279
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xii
Contents
CHAPTER XII
WILLIAM LAW AND THE MYSTICS
By CAROLINE F. E. SPURGEON, Dr of the University
of Paris, Fellow of King's College for Women and
Lecturer in English Literature at Bedford College,
University of London
PAGE
6
Undercurrent of Mystical Thought in England in the Earlier Half of
the Eighteenth Century. Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century.
*Children of Light' in Holland. The Behmenites' and the
Founders of the Society of Friends. Life and Writings of William
Law. Law's Controversial Writings against Hoadly, Mandeville
and Tindal. Christian Perfection and A Serious Call. Influence
of Malebranche, the earlier German Mystics and the Seventeenth
Century Quietists upon Law. Jacob Boehme and the Essence of
his Mysticism. Boehme and Law. An Appeal to all who Doubt
and The Way to Divine Knowledge. Character of Law's Prose:
Law and Mandeville; The Spirit of Prayer; A Serious Call.
Law's Followers: John Byrom; Henry Brooke. Later influence
of Boehme on English Thought .
305
.
CHAPTER XIII
SCHOLARS AND ANTIQUARIES
I. BENTLEY AND CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP
By JAMES DUFF DUFF, M. A. , Fellow and Lecturer in
Classics of Trinity College
Learning in England at the Time of Bentley's Birth: Pearson; Fell;
William Lloyd; Henry Dodwell; John Moore. Bentley's Earlier
Life and Labours. Epistola ad Millium. His Lectures against
Atheism. The Phalaris Controversy: Bentley and his Adversaries.
Bentley Master of Trinity. The Troubles of his Mastership. His
Reforms at Cambridge. Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. Bentley's
Horace. Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking.
Editions of Terence and Manilius. Bentley and Paradise Lost.
His death. Joseph Wasse; Conyers Middleton; Jeremiah
Markland; John Taylor; Richard Dawes
329
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Contents
xiii
II. ANTIQUARIES
By H. G. ALDIS, M. A. , Peterhouse, Secretary of the
University Library
PAGE
Oxford and the Bodleian. Dagdale and Dodsworth. The Antiquities
of Warwickshire and Monasticon Anglicanum. Dugdale's Other
Labours. Anthony Wood and Athenae Oxonienses. Thomas
Hearne. John Tanner. John Aubrey. Local History and
Topography: Burton; Plot; Stukeley; Gordon. Chamberlayne's
Angliae Notitia and its Sequel. Gibson's Edition of Camden's
Britannia Ashmole and other County Antiquaries. Baker's
collections: his History of St John's College, Cambridge.
Writers on Monastic and Cathedral Antiquities. Old English
Studies: Sir Henry Spelman. Diplomatic: Thomas Madox.
Heraldry. Ames's Typographical Antiquities. The Cottonian
and the Harloian Libraries. Osborne and Oldys. Revival of the
Society of Antiquaries.
.
341
CHAPTER XIV
SCOTTISH POPULAR POETRY BEFORE BURNS
By T. F. HENDERSON
1
The long Blight on Scottish Secular Verse. Exceptional popularity of
Lyndsay. Survival of Songs in the Puritan Period. Peculiarity
of the relation between English and Scottish Song in the Seventeenth
Century. Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall
Songs. Original Scots Songs in The Tea-Table Miscellany:
Lady Grizel Baillie, Lady Wardlaw and William Hamilton of
Gilbertfield. Robert Sempill and The Life and Death of Habbie
Simson. Watson's Choice Collection. Allan Ramsay. His
earlier productions and The Gentle Shepherd. Difficulty of
estimating his Originality. His treatment of the Old Songs. The
Tea-Table Miscellany and The Evergreen. Alexander Pennecuick.
Robert Crawford. William Hamilton of Bangour. Sir John
Clerk and George Halkett. Alexander Ross. Alexander Geddes.
Dougal Graham. Mrs Cockburn. Jane and Sir Gilbert Elliot.
Anonymous Songs. Songs from David Herd's Manuscript and
other Collections. Jacobite Songs in Hogg's Jacobite Relics of
Scotland. Hogg's editorial methods. Literary value of the
Jacobite Songs. Robert Fergusson: his personality and poetio
qualities
359
1
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xiv
Contents
CHAPTER XV
EDUCATION
By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King's College, London, and
Professor of Education in the University of London
PAGE
The Seventeenth Century Curriculum. Henry Wotton's Essay on the
Education of Children. Proposed supersession of Oxford and
Cambridge under the Commonwealth: Milton; Harrington;
Hobbes. Seth Ward's Vindiciae Academiarum. The Long
Parliament and Education. Projected Reforms of Schools.
Influence of John Amos Comenius. Hartlib, Petty and Dury.
Educational Projects after the Restoration: Cowley's Proposition.
The Ancients v. Moderns Controversy: Temple and Bentley.
Dissenting Academies : Secker's Experience. Courtly and Private
Education: Comments of Clarendon, Peacham, Francis Osborn
and others. Cavils of Swift and Defoe. Locke's Thoughts on
Education and Essay concerning Human Understanding.
Influence of the Essay on subsequent Educational Theory.
Education of Girls: Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and
others. Elementary Education. Private Schools. Charity Schools:
Mandeville. The Public Schools : Eton and Westminster. Subjects
of Teaching. The Universities. Examinations at Cambridge.
The Oxford Tutorial System. _Foundation of the Royal Society.
Bentley's Range of Studies. Extension of University Learning.
New Chairs at Cambridge. Gibbon's Charges against the Oxford
System. Difficulties in the way of Reform
381
415
Bibliographies.
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
575
.
579
.
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
i
VOLUME IX. FROM STEELE AND ADDISON TO POPE AND SWIFT
Second Impression, 1919, Corrections and Additions
2
I
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. The more
important of these are as follows:
p. 78, 11. 17, 18 for Cytherea . . . 1723, read The St James's Journal of 15 December 1722,
p. 149, 11. 2-4 of footnote for Prior's. . . manuscripts. read J. Bancks, under the title
The History of His Own Time by Matthew Prior, and professing to be compiled from
the manuscripts of Adrian Drift, Prior's former secretary.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 415 ff. chapter 1. Defoe, The Newspaper and the Novel :
Behn, Mrs Aphra. See vol. VIII, chapter v and bibliography.
Haywood, Mrs Eliza (1693 ? -1756). Collected edn of novels, plays and poems. 4 vols.
1724.
Manley, Mrs Mary de la Rivière (1672 ? -1724). Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several
Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis. 2 vols. 1709.
pp. 434 ff. chapter 11. Steele and Addison:
Addison, Joseph, The Miscellaneous Works of. Ed. Guthkelch, A. C. Vols. I and 11. 1914.
Suddard, M. L'Humour d'Addison. Essais de littérature anglaise. Cambridge, 1915.
pp. 443 ff. chapter III. Pope :
Pope, Alexander (ed. ). Poems of Thomas Parnell. 1721.
Pope, Alexander (ed. ). Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, etc. 1723.
pp. 452 ff. chapter iv. Jonathan Swift:
Suddard, Mary. Swift's Poetry. Essays in English Literature. Cambridge, 1912.
pp. 479 ff. chapter vi. Lesser Verse Writers :
Under Matthew Prior :
Aitken, G. A. Notes on the Bibliography of Matthew Prior. A paper read before the
Bibliographical Society, January 17, 1916. 1919.
Bickley, F. The Life of Matthew Prior. 1914.
Dennis, J. In Studies in English Literature. 1876.
Under David Mallet :
Ballads and Songs. Ed. Di lale, F. , with a memoir. 57.
Under Richard Savage (biography):
The Plain Dealer. Nos. 28 and 73. 1724.
Johnson, Samuel. Life of Savage. 1744.
pp. 488 ff. chapters vir and viii. Historical and Political Writers :
Under William Dampier :
Voyages. Ed. Masefield, J. 2 vols. 1906.
Thomas Pitt (1653-1726).
Dalton, Sir C. N. The Life of Thomas Pitt. Cambridge, 1915.
pp. 502 ff. chapter 21. Berkeley and Contemporary Philosophy :
Under George Berkeley :
Berkeley and Percival. The Correspondence between George Berkeley. . . and Sir John
Percival. . . . Ed. Rand, Benjamin. Cambridge, 1914.
Under Anthony Astley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury:
Second Characters or The Language of Forms. Ed. Rand, Benjamin. Cambridge,
1914.
pp. 542 ff. chapter xiv. Scottish Literature from 1603 to 1786 :
Under (1) General :
Millar, J. H. Scottish Prose of the 17th and 18th centuries. Glasgow, 1912.
Under D. Miscellaneous. I. (1603-1660):
James VI. Lusus Regius : being poems and other pieces by King James ye First. Ed.
Rait, R. S. 1901.
Under Scottish Popular Poetry. II. Critical and Historical Writings:
Ganttich Ta - Pantry
:
1912
## p. xvi (#22) #############################################
## p. xvii (#23) ############################################
ADDENDUM
VOL. VII
P. 412
Daniel, George, of Beswick (1616—57). Poems, from the original MSS. Ed. Grosart,
A. B. 4 vols. 1878.
Fisher, Payne (1616—93). Marston Moor, Eboracense carmen. 1650. [Payne Fisher
wrote much verse (chiefly Latin) in praise of Oliver Cromwell, after whose death
be epent several years in the Fleet, and wrote as a royalist. ]
CORRIGENDA
1
VOL. VIII
p. 6, footnote 2, line 2 from bottom, for Royal Exchange read New Exchange, Strand
p. 28, footnote 2 at end, read : to the researches, conducted independently in each
case, of W. J. Lawrence and Sir Ernest Clarke
p. 30, 1. 23 and elsewhere, for St Évremond read Saint-Évremond
p. 215. 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.
p. 370, 1. 21, for 1655 read 1665
p. 371, 1. 38. Read as follows in lieu of the next two sentences of the text :
English imitations also appeared ; Lord Broghill (Orrery)'s Parthenissa (first part) in
1654, with which, in spite of its handsome language, Dorothy Osborne was not
very much taken, and Sir George Mackenzie'ɛ Aretina of the Serious Romance in
1661. A complete edition of Parthenissa in three volumes was published in 1665 and
1667.
p. 376, l. 5, insert the before chevalier
p. 422, l. 15, Howard, James should be inserted before All Mistaken. (This and
the subsequent play were by him, not by Edward Howard. )
1. 2 from bottom, the entry Cibber should read:
Cibber, Theophilus. An Account of the Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and
Ireland, 5 vols. 1753.
p. 445, 1. 2 from bottom, for Grammont. Des read Grammont; des
p. 478, l1. 12, 13 from bottom, transfer entries Gray, G. J. and Elton, 0.
Henry St John's Earlier Life and Letters. His Contributions to The
Examiner. A Letter to Sir William Wyndham. Bolingbroke
in France. His political activity after his return home. The
Craftsman and its Contributors. Bolingbroke's Remarks upon
the History of England; Dissertation upon Parties ; Letters
on the Study and Use of History; Letter on the Spirit of
Patriotism; Idea of a Patriot King. His last Political Pamphlets.
Qualities of his Style. Historical and Political Writers con-
temporary with Bolingbroke: White Kennett; Echard; Rapin;
Lediard; Tindal; Boyer; Oldmixon. Roger North’s Lives of the
Norths. Merits of these Biographies
216
CHAPTER IX
MEMOIR-WRITERS, 1715-60
By THOMAS SECCOMBE, M. A.
English Society under the First Two Georges. Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu. The Story of her Life. Her Turkish Letters. Her
other writings in Verse and Prose. Lady Cowper's Diary.
Correspondence of Lady Suffolk. Lord Hervey and Lady Mary.
His Political Career. His Memoirs and their Character. Memoirs
of Lord Waldegrave and Melcombe (George Bubb Dodington)
243
## p. xi (#17) ##############################################
Contents
xi
CHAPTER X
WRITERS OF BURLESQUE AND TRANSLATORS
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M. A. , Hon. Fellow of
Jesus College
PAGE
The Underworld of Letters and its Vagabond Inhabitants. Their
love of Burlesque and Indebtedness to Scarron. His Imitators in
France and in England. Charles Cotton's, Monsey's and John
Phillips's Travesties of Vergil, Scudamore's of Homer and Alexander
Radcliffe's of Ovid. Hudibras and Hudibrastic Verse. Ned
Ward's Hudibras Redivivus, Vulgus Britannicus and London
Spy. Tom Brown's Amusements for the Meridian of London.
The New Art of Translation Versions of Petronius. John
Phillips's Literary Career. His Don Quixote. Motteux and his
Translation of Rabelais. Roger L'Estrange as a Translator.
His Selection of Originals. His Aesop. Charles Cotton and his
Montaigne. John Stevens and his Services to English knowledge
of Spanish Literature
255
CHAPTER XI
BERKELEY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
English Thought in the Period after the Death of Locke. I. Meta-
physicians: Berkeley's Life and Authorship before and after his
sojourn in America. Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher.
Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. The Merits of the Essay
as a work of Psychological Analysis. Treatise concerning the
Principles of Human Knowledge. Berkeley's Idealism. His
place in the History of Thought. His Common-place Book.
Arthur Collier. II. Deists. The Deistical Controversy in English
Theology. Charles Blount. Charles Leslie as Champion of
Orthodoxy. Toland's Christianity not Mysterious. His Literary
Career and Philosophical Development: Letters to Serena ;
Pantheisticon. Anthony Collins's Discourse of Free-thinking.
Tindals Christianity as old as the Creation. Other Deistical
Writers: Woolston; Chubb; Morgan; Henry Dodwell the younger.
Influence of Deism. Bolingbroke. Whiston's Primitive Chris-
tianity Revived. Opponents of the Deists: William Warburton.
III. Moralists. Samuel Clarke and Rational Ethics. Shaftesbury;
his Characteristics of Men and Manners. Hutcheson. Mandeville's
Fable of the Bees. Bishop Butler's Fifteen Sermons and Analogy.
Exhaustiveness of Butler's Reasonings
279
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xii
Contents
CHAPTER XII
WILLIAM LAW AND THE MYSTICS
By CAROLINE F. E. SPURGEON, Dr of the University
of Paris, Fellow of King's College for Women and
Lecturer in English Literature at Bedford College,
University of London
PAGE
6
Undercurrent of Mystical Thought in England in the Earlier Half of
the Eighteenth Century. Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century.
*Children of Light' in Holland. The Behmenites' and the
Founders of the Society of Friends. Life and Writings of William
Law. Law's Controversial Writings against Hoadly, Mandeville
and Tindal. Christian Perfection and A Serious Call. Influence
of Malebranche, the earlier German Mystics and the Seventeenth
Century Quietists upon Law. Jacob Boehme and the Essence of
his Mysticism. Boehme and Law. An Appeal to all who Doubt
and The Way to Divine Knowledge. Character of Law's Prose:
Law and Mandeville; The Spirit of Prayer; A Serious Call.
Law's Followers: John Byrom; Henry Brooke. Later influence
of Boehme on English Thought .
305
.
CHAPTER XIII
SCHOLARS AND ANTIQUARIES
I. BENTLEY AND CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP
By JAMES DUFF DUFF, M. A. , Fellow and Lecturer in
Classics of Trinity College
Learning in England at the Time of Bentley's Birth: Pearson; Fell;
William Lloyd; Henry Dodwell; John Moore. Bentley's Earlier
Life and Labours. Epistola ad Millium. His Lectures against
Atheism. The Phalaris Controversy: Bentley and his Adversaries.
Bentley Master of Trinity. The Troubles of his Mastership. His
Reforms at Cambridge. Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. Bentley's
Horace. Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking.
Editions of Terence and Manilius. Bentley and Paradise Lost.
His death. Joseph Wasse; Conyers Middleton; Jeremiah
Markland; John Taylor; Richard Dawes
329
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Contents
xiii
II. ANTIQUARIES
By H. G. ALDIS, M. A. , Peterhouse, Secretary of the
University Library
PAGE
Oxford and the Bodleian. Dagdale and Dodsworth. The Antiquities
of Warwickshire and Monasticon Anglicanum. Dugdale's Other
Labours. Anthony Wood and Athenae Oxonienses. Thomas
Hearne. John Tanner. John Aubrey. Local History and
Topography: Burton; Plot; Stukeley; Gordon. Chamberlayne's
Angliae Notitia and its Sequel. Gibson's Edition of Camden's
Britannia Ashmole and other County Antiquaries. Baker's
collections: his History of St John's College, Cambridge.
Writers on Monastic and Cathedral Antiquities. Old English
Studies: Sir Henry Spelman. Diplomatic: Thomas Madox.
Heraldry. Ames's Typographical Antiquities. The Cottonian
and the Harloian Libraries. Osborne and Oldys. Revival of the
Society of Antiquaries.
.
341
CHAPTER XIV
SCOTTISH POPULAR POETRY BEFORE BURNS
By T. F. HENDERSON
1
The long Blight on Scottish Secular Verse. Exceptional popularity of
Lyndsay. Survival of Songs in the Puritan Period. Peculiarity
of the relation between English and Scottish Song in the Seventeenth
Century. Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall
Songs. Original Scots Songs in The Tea-Table Miscellany:
Lady Grizel Baillie, Lady Wardlaw and William Hamilton of
Gilbertfield. Robert Sempill and The Life and Death of Habbie
Simson. Watson's Choice Collection. Allan Ramsay. His
earlier productions and The Gentle Shepherd. Difficulty of
estimating his Originality. His treatment of the Old Songs. The
Tea-Table Miscellany and The Evergreen. Alexander Pennecuick.
Robert Crawford. William Hamilton of Bangour. Sir John
Clerk and George Halkett. Alexander Ross. Alexander Geddes.
Dougal Graham. Mrs Cockburn. Jane and Sir Gilbert Elliot.
Anonymous Songs. Songs from David Herd's Manuscript and
other Collections. Jacobite Songs in Hogg's Jacobite Relics of
Scotland. Hogg's editorial methods. Literary value of the
Jacobite Songs. Robert Fergusson: his personality and poetio
qualities
359
1
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xiv
Contents
CHAPTER XV
EDUCATION
By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King's College, London, and
Professor of Education in the University of London
PAGE
The Seventeenth Century Curriculum. Henry Wotton's Essay on the
Education of Children. Proposed supersession of Oxford and
Cambridge under the Commonwealth: Milton; Harrington;
Hobbes. Seth Ward's Vindiciae Academiarum. The Long
Parliament and Education. Projected Reforms of Schools.
Influence of John Amos Comenius. Hartlib, Petty and Dury.
Educational Projects after the Restoration: Cowley's Proposition.
The Ancients v. Moderns Controversy: Temple and Bentley.
Dissenting Academies : Secker's Experience. Courtly and Private
Education: Comments of Clarendon, Peacham, Francis Osborn
and others. Cavils of Swift and Defoe. Locke's Thoughts on
Education and Essay concerning Human Understanding.
Influence of the Essay on subsequent Educational Theory.
Education of Girls: Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and
others. Elementary Education. Private Schools. Charity Schools:
Mandeville. The Public Schools : Eton and Westminster. Subjects
of Teaching. The Universities. Examinations at Cambridge.
The Oxford Tutorial System. _Foundation of the Royal Society.
Bentley's Range of Studies. Extension of University Learning.
New Chairs at Cambridge. Gibbon's Charges against the Oxford
System. Difficulties in the way of Reform
381
415
Bibliographies.
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
575
.
579
.
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
i
VOLUME IX. FROM STEELE AND ADDISON TO POPE AND SWIFT
Second Impression, 1919, Corrections and Additions
2
I
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. The more
important of these are as follows:
p. 78, 11. 17, 18 for Cytherea . . . 1723, read The St James's Journal of 15 December 1722,
p. 149, 11. 2-4 of footnote for Prior's. . . manuscripts. read J. Bancks, under the title
The History of His Own Time by Matthew Prior, and professing to be compiled from
the manuscripts of Adrian Drift, Prior's former secretary.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies :
pp. 415 ff. chapter 1. Defoe, The Newspaper and the Novel :
Behn, Mrs Aphra. See vol. VIII, chapter v and bibliography.
Haywood, Mrs Eliza (1693 ? -1756). Collected edn of novels, plays and poems. 4 vols.
1724.
Manley, Mrs Mary de la Rivière (1672 ? -1724). Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several
Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis. 2 vols. 1709.
pp. 434 ff. chapter 11. Steele and Addison:
Addison, Joseph, The Miscellaneous Works of. Ed. Guthkelch, A. C. Vols. I and 11. 1914.
Suddard, M. L'Humour d'Addison. Essais de littérature anglaise. Cambridge, 1915.
pp. 443 ff. chapter III. Pope :
Pope, Alexander (ed. ). Poems of Thomas Parnell. 1721.
Pope, Alexander (ed. ). Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, etc. 1723.
pp. 452 ff. chapter iv. Jonathan Swift:
Suddard, Mary. Swift's Poetry. Essays in English Literature. Cambridge, 1912.
pp. 479 ff. chapter vi. Lesser Verse Writers :
Under Matthew Prior :
Aitken, G. A. Notes on the Bibliography of Matthew Prior. A paper read before the
Bibliographical Society, January 17, 1916. 1919.
Bickley, F. The Life of Matthew Prior. 1914.
Dennis, J. In Studies in English Literature. 1876.
Under David Mallet :
Ballads and Songs. Ed. Di lale, F. , with a memoir. 57.
Under Richard Savage (biography):
The Plain Dealer. Nos. 28 and 73. 1724.
Johnson, Samuel. Life of Savage. 1744.
pp. 488 ff. chapters vir and viii. Historical and Political Writers :
Under William Dampier :
Voyages. Ed. Masefield, J. 2 vols. 1906.
Thomas Pitt (1653-1726).
Dalton, Sir C. N. The Life of Thomas Pitt. Cambridge, 1915.
pp. 502 ff. chapter 21. Berkeley and Contemporary Philosophy :
Under George Berkeley :
Berkeley and Percival. The Correspondence between George Berkeley. . . and Sir John
Percival. . . . Ed. Rand, Benjamin. Cambridge, 1914.
Under Anthony Astley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury:
Second Characters or The Language of Forms. Ed. Rand, Benjamin. Cambridge,
1914.
pp. 542 ff. chapter xiv. Scottish Literature from 1603 to 1786 :
Under (1) General :
Millar, J. H. Scottish Prose of the 17th and 18th centuries. Glasgow, 1912.
Under D. Miscellaneous. I. (1603-1660):
James VI. Lusus Regius : being poems and other pieces by King James ye First. Ed.
Rait, R. S. 1901.
Under Scottish Popular Poetry. II. Critical and Historical Writings:
Ganttich Ta - Pantry
:
1912
## p. xvi (#22) #############################################
## p. xvii (#23) ############################################
ADDENDUM
VOL. VII
P. 412
Daniel, George, of Beswick (1616—57). Poems, from the original MSS. Ed. Grosart,
A. B. 4 vols. 1878.
Fisher, Payne (1616—93). Marston Moor, Eboracense carmen. 1650. [Payne Fisher
wrote much verse (chiefly Latin) in praise of Oliver Cromwell, after whose death
be epent several years in the Fleet, and wrote as a royalist. ]
CORRIGENDA
1
VOL. VIII
p. 6, footnote 2, line 2 from bottom, for Royal Exchange read New Exchange, Strand
p. 28, footnote 2 at end, read : to the researches, conducted independently in each
case, of W. J. Lawrence and Sir Ernest Clarke
p. 30, 1. 23 and elsewhere, for St Évremond read Saint-Évremond
p. 215. 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.
p. 370, 1. 21, for 1655 read 1665
p. 371, 1. 38. Read as follows in lieu of the next two sentences of the text :
English imitations also appeared ; Lord Broghill (Orrery)'s Parthenissa (first part) in
1654, with which, in spite of its handsome language, Dorothy Osborne was not
very much taken, and Sir George Mackenzie'ɛ Aretina of the Serious Romance in
1661. A complete edition of Parthenissa in three volumes was published in 1665 and
1667.
p. 376, l. 5, insert the before chevalier
p. 422, l. 15, Howard, James should be inserted before All Mistaken. (This and
the subsequent play were by him, not by Edward Howard. )
1. 2 from bottom, the entry Cibber should read:
Cibber, Theophilus. An Account of the Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and
Ireland, 5 vols. 1753.
p. 445, 1. 2 from bottom, for Grammont. Des read Grammont; des
p. 478, l1. 12, 13 from bottom, transfer entries Gray, G. J. and Elton, 0.
