Essays
selected
and edited by Ker, W.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
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.
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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).
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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.
