1664 Sir John
Vanbrugh
born (d.
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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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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
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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.
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.
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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.
and Vertue Betray'd.
1675 Dryden's Aureng-Zebe acted 1682 Dryden's The Medal and
(ptd 1676).
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt 11.
1675 Wycherley's Country Wife. 1682 Dryden's Mac Flecknoe and
1676 Etherege's Man of Mode.
Religio Laici.
1676 Otway's Don Carlos.
1682 Otway's Venice Preserv'd.
1676 Ray's edition of Willughby's 1682 Petty's Political Arithmetic.
Ornithologia.
1682 Ray's Methodus plantarum.
1677 Crowne's Destruction of Jeru- 1683 Crowne's City Politiques.
salem.
1684 Death of Corneille.
1677 Lee's Rival Queens.
1684 The Turkish Spy.
1677 La Fayette's Princesse de 1685 Crowne's Sir Courtly Nice.
Clèves.
1685-8 James II
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Table of Principal Dates
487
a
1686 Willughby and Ray's Historia
piscium.
1687 Dryden's The Hind and the
Panther.
1687 Newton's Principia.
1687 La Bruyère's Caractères.
1688 Pope born.
1688 Halifax's Character of a
Trimmer.
1688 Shadwell's Squire of Alsatia.
1689 Locke's first letter on Tolera-
tion. (2nd letter 1690; 3rd
1692. )
1689 Selden's Table-Talk.
1689 Shadwell's Bury Fair.
1689-94 William and Mary.
1690 Locke's Two Treatises of
Government and Essay con-
cerning Human Understanding.
1691 Boyle lectures founded.
1691 Sherlock's Practical Dis-
concerning Future
Judgment.
1691 Racine's Athalie.
1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra-
course
gedy (dated 1693).
1692 Temple's Memoirs.
1693 Congreve's Old Bachelor;
Double-Dealer.
1693 Dryden's Discourse concerning
. . . Satire.
1693 Hacket's Life of Bishop
Williams.
1693 Leslie's Short and easy method
with the Deists.
1693 Penn's Some Fruits of Soli-
tude.
1693 Ray's Synopsis animalium.
1694 Barthogge's Essay upon
Reason.
1694 George Fox's Journal.
1694 Southerne's The Fatal Mar-
riage.
1695-1702 William III.
1695 Congreve's Love for Love.
1696 Baxter's Autobiography.
1696 Colley Cibber's Love's Last
Shift.
1696 Southerne's Oroonoko.
1696 Tate and Brady's new version
of the Psalms.
1696 Toland's Christianity not
mysterious.
1697 Congreve's Mourning Bride.
1697 Dryden's Alexander's Feast.
1697 Vanbrugh's Relapse and Pro-
vok'd Wife.
1698 Jeremy Collier's Short View
of the immorality of the
English Stage.
1698 Farquhar's Love and a Bottle.
1699 Farquhar's The Constant
Couple.
1699 Death of Racine.
1700 Congreve's Way of the World.
1700 Dryden's Fables.
1700 Halifax's Miscellanies.
1700 Cottonian library presented to
the nation.
1700-3 Temple's Letters (ed. Swift).
1701 Farquhar's Sir Harry
Wildair.
1701 Norris's Essay towards the
Theory of the Ideal or Intelli-
gible World, Pt1 (Pt 11 1704).
1702-14 Anne.
1703 Rowe's Fair Penitent.
1704 Robert Nelson's Companion
for the Festivals and Fasts.
1705 Vanbragh's Confederacy.
1706 Farquhar's Recruiting Officer.
1707 Farquhars Beaux Strata-
gem.
1712 Philips's Distrest Mother.
1713 Mémoires de la vie du Comte
de Gramont.
1714 Rowe's Tragedy of Jane
Shore.
1715 Rowe's Tragedy of the Lady
Jane Gray.
1720 Hughes's Siege of Damascus.
1731 Cudworth's Treatise concern-
ing Eternal and Immutable
Morality (publ. posthumously).
1740 Apology for the Life of
Colley Cibber.
1764 Lord Herbert of Cherbury's
Autobiography ptd.
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INDEX OF NAMES
(The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject oćour on at
least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule,
given in the case of writers whose work is treated in other volumes. ]
Abercorn, James Hamilton, 1st earl of
(d. 1617), 261
Absalom, in Absalom and Achitophel, 36,
38, 39
Absalom's Conspiracy, 37
Academia Secretorum Naturae of Naples,
364
Achilles, 25, 76
Achitophel, in Absalom and Achitophel,
37, 38, 41, 75
Adam, 841
Addison, J. , 174, 194, 220, 292, 293, 296,
303
and Steele, The Spectator, 378 ;
The Tatler, 140, 158, 175, 390
Admirable Crichton, 195
Advertisement of a Sale of Choice Goods,
99
Advices to a Painter and New Advice,
91
Aeneas, 67
Aesop, 59
Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius, of Nettes-
heim, 64; De Occulta Philosophia, 67
Aimwell, in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem,
172
Ajax, 68
Alarcon, Juan Ruiz de y Mendoza, 130
Albemarle, A. J. van Keppel, lst earl of
(1669-1718), 202
Alcazar, battle of, 31
Alcoran, Turkish, 291
Aldwinkle All Saints, Northants. , 2
Alexander, in Lee's Rival Queens, 186
Sir Wm. , earl of Stirling, 183
Alfred, king, 310
Almanzor, in Dryden's Conquest of
Granada, 25, 27
Alphonso, in The Mourning Bride, 152
Alps, the, 245
Altamont, in Rowe's Fair Penitent, 196
Alva, duke of, 160
Amalekites, 78
Amanda, in Vanbrugh's Relapse, 161
America, 243, 257, 314, 341
American colonies, 101, 342
Amiens, in As You Like It, 225
Amlet, Mrs, in The Confederacy, 162
Amsterdam, Letter from, to a Friend in
England, 100
Ancient Pistol, 127
Andrewes, Lancelot, 293, 294, 301
Andromache, in Dryden's Troilus and
Cressida, 29
in the Iliad, 50
Angelica, in Congreve's Love for Love,
151, 156
in Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair,
169
Angevins, the, 311
Anglo-Saxon' language, 307
Anne Neville, queen of Richard III, 123
queen, 96, 113, 220, 261, 373
Annus Mirabilis primus et secundus, 10
Antonio, in Otway's Venice Preserv'd,
94, 184
de Eslava, Noches de Invierno, 126
Antwerp, 141
Apollo, 204
Appletree, Thomas, in Farquhar's Re.
cruiting Officer, 171
Apsley, Lucy, 270
Arber, E.
