1798
Wordsworth
and Coleridge's
1787 Sheridan's speech against Lyrical Ballads.
1787 Sheridan's speech against Lyrical Ballads.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11
242, 1.
14 from foot, for Richard read Robert
p. 243, 1. 8 from foot, for John read James
p. 257, 1. 23, for Bensly read Bensley
p. 263, 1. 19, for Griffiths's read Griffith's
footnote, for Celisia read Celesia
p. 275, l. 21, for The Sisters (1679) read The Sister (1769)
of footnote, for first 1791 read 1793
p. 281, 1. 35, for 1761 read 1791
p. 282, footnote, for P. Toynbee read Mrs P. Toynbee
p. 289, footnote 3, 1. 1, for Reading read Redding
p. 299, 1. 12 from foot, for Thorp read Thorpe
p. 300, 1. 1, for Anne read Ann
p. 326, 11. 33 and 42, for Straham read Strahan
p. 331, 1. 23, for Sobière read Sorbière
p. 374, 1. 13, for Corbett read Corbet
p. 379, 1. 5, for Venn read Fenn
p. 384, 1. 10 etc. , for Mrs Turner read Miss Turner
p. 435, 1. 9. The Glenriddel MSS, formerly in the Liverpool Athenaeum, are to
be placed in the custody of three trustees, and will be deposited in the cities of
Edinburgh and Glasgow for alternate periods of five years each.
p. 447, add Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth
Century (1642—1780). 1914.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
on
1700 Death of Dryden.
1764 Death of Hogarth.
1702 Edward Bysshe's Art of 1765 Horace Walpole's Castle of
Poetry.
Otranto.
1709 First English Copyright Act. 1765-9 Blackstone's Commentaries.
1712 J. J. Rousseau born.
1766 C. Anstey's New Bath Guide.
1714-27 George I.
1766 Malthus born (d. 1834).
1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779). 1766 Lessing's Lavkoon.
1719 Death of Addison.
1768-71 Encyclopaedia Britannica,
1720 Mrs Elizabeth Montagu born 1st edn.
(d. 1800).
1769 R. Cumberland's The Brothers
1723 Blackstone born (d. 1780).
produced
1727-60 George II.
1770 Burke's Thoughts the
1727 Death of Newton.
Present Discontents.
1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1770 Wordsworth born (d. 1850).
1774).
1771 R. Cumberland's The West
1729 Burke born (d. 1797).
Indian.
1731 Cowper born (d. 1800).
1771 Walter Scott born (d. 1832).
1731 Death of Defoe.
1772 Coleridge born (d. 1834).
1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794). 1773 Goethe's Götz von Berlich-
1744 Death of Pope.
ingen.
1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833). 1773 Goldsmith's She Stoops to
1745 Death of Swift.
Conquer.
1748 Bentham born (d. 1832). 1774 Burke's Speech on American
1749 Goethe born.
Taxation.
1750 The bluestocking parties 1774 Southey born (d. 1843).
begin.
1774 Goethe's Sorrows of Werther.
1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816).
1775 Burke's Speech on Conciliation
1751 Encyclopédie, vols. I and 11.
with the Colonies.
1753 Dugald Stewart born (d. 1828). 1775 Grattan enters the Irish par-
1754 Crabbe born (d. 1832).
liament.
1756 Amory's John Buncle.
1775 Jane Austen born (d. 1817).
1756 Burke's Sublime and Beauti- 1775 Charles Lamb born (d. 1834)
ful.
1775 Sheridan's The Rivals.
1757–60 Pitt's first ministry.
1776 Bentham's A Fragment on
1757 Blake born (d. 1827).
Government.
1758 Mrs Carter's Epictetus.
1776 Death of Hume.
1759 British Museum opened. 1776 Adam Smith's The Wealth of
1759 Burns born (d. 1796).
Nations,
1760-1820 George III.
1776 The American Declaration of
1760 Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse. Independence.
1762 Wilkes's The North Briton. 1776 Gibbon's Decline and Fall,
1763 Rousseau's Contrat Social.
vol. 1.
I
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Table of Principal Dates
1777 Clara Reeve's The Champion
1
1777-84 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1791 Boswell's Life of Johnson.
2nd edn.
1791-2 T. Paine's The Rights of
1777 Hannah More's Percy.
Man.
1791 Ann Radcliffe's The Romance
of Virtue, afterwards The Old of the Forest.
English Baron.
1792 T. Holcroft's The Road to
1777 Sheridan's The School for Ruin.
Scandal and A Trip to Scar- 1792 Pitt's speech on the slave-trade.
borough produced.
1792-4 Arthur Young's Travels in
1778 Death of Rousseau.
France.
1778 Death of Voltaire.
1792 Shelley born (d. 1822).
1778 Hazlitt born (d. 1830).
1793 W. Godwin's Political Justice.
1779 Olney Hymns.
1794 W. Godwin's Caleb Williams.
1779 Lessing's Nathan der Weise. 1794 Blake's Songs of Experience.
1780 Arthur Young's Tour in Ire- 1794 Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries
land.
of Udolpho.
1781 William Pitt the younger and 1794 Southey's Wat Tyler written.
Sheridan enter parliament. 1794-5 Paine's The Age of Reason.
1781 Kant's Critique of Pure 1795 Carlyle born (d. 1881).
Reason.
1795 Keats born (d. 1821).
1781 Rousseau's Confessions.
1795 M. G. Lewis's The Monk.
1782 Cowper's Poems.
1796 Burke's A Letter to a Noble
1782 Mrs Siddons begins acting at Lord.
Drury lane.
1796 Southey's Joan of Arc.
1783 Crabbe's The Village.
1796 Bage's Hermsprong.
1783 Fox's India Bill.
1796 E. Inchbald's Nature and Art.
1783-1802 William Pitt the younger's 1796-8 Southey's Ballads written.
first ministry.
1797 Kotzebue popular the
1784 Beckford's Vathek written.
London stage.
1784 Death of Johnson.
1797 The Anti-Jacobin.
1785 Clara Reeve's Progress of Ro- 1797 Ann Radcliffe's The Italian.
mance.
1797 Heine born.
1785 Burke's speech On the Nabob 1797-1814 Wordsworth's Excursion
of Arcot's debts.
written.
1785 Cowper's The Task.
1798-1805 Wordsworth's Prelude
1785 Burke begins his attack on written.
Warren Hastings.
1798 Southey's Holly Tree written.
1786 Burns's Poems (Kilmarnock 1798 Malthus's Essay on the Prin-
edn).
ciple of Population.
1786 Burgoyne's The Heiress.
1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge's
1787 Sheridan's speech against Lyrical Ballads.
Warren Hastings.
1799 Balzac born.
1787 Colman's Inkle and Yarico. 1800 Schillers Wallenstein.
1788 The Times founded.
1800 Wordsworth’s Recluse written,
1788-97 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1801 Chateaubriand's Atala.
3rd edn.
1801 Southey's Thalaba.
1788 Byron born (d. 1824).
1802 Cobbett's Weekly Register
1788 Goethe's Egmont.
begins.
1789 Blake's Songs of Innocence. 1802 Victor Hugo born.
1789 Fall of the Bastille.
1802 The Edinburgh Review
1789 Bentham's The Principles of 1803 Jane Porter's Thaddeus of
Morals and Legislation.
Warsaw.
1790 Burke's Reflections on the 1804 Death of Kant.
Revolution in France,
1804-6 William Pitt's second minis-
1791 E. Inchbald's A Simple Story. try.
on
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Table of Principal Dates
495
1805 Southey's Madoc.
1805 Wordsworth's Ode to Duty
written.
1805 Death of Schiller.
1805 Chateaubriand's René.
1806 'All the Talents' ministry.
1807 Crabbe's The Parish Register.
1809 The Quarterly Review.
1809 Charles Darwin born (d. 1882).
1809 Tennyson born (d. 1892).
1809 Chateaubriand’s The Martyrs.
1810 Jane Porter's The Scottish
Chiefs.
1810 Crabbe's The Borough.
1810 Southey's The Curse of Ke-
hama.
1810 Mme de Staël's L'Allemagne.
1811 Thackeray born (d. 1863).
1812 Browning born (d. 1889).
1812 Crabbe's Tales.
1812 Dickens born (d. 1870).
1812 Maria Edgeworth's Absentee.
1813 Hogg's The Queen's Wake.
1813 Southey's The Life of Nelson.
1814 Southey's Roderick, the Last
of the Goths.
1816 Coleridge's Christabel.
1816 Peacock’s Headlong Hall.
1817 Coleridge's Biographia Lite-
raria.
1817 Peacock's Melincourt.
1817 Maria Edgeworth's Ormond.
1818 Peacock's Nightmare Abbey.
1819 Hope's Anastasius.
1820 Maturin's Melmoth the Wan-
derer.
1820 Southey's Life of Wesley.
1820-30 George IV.
1822 Peacock's Maid Marian.
1824-8 Godwin's Commonwealth of
England.
1829 Southey's Colloquies.
1829 Peacock's The Misfortunes of
Elphin.
1831 Peacock's Crotchet Castle.
1834-47 Southey's The Doctor.
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INDEX OF NAMES
[The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur 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. )
A Apple Pie, 386
. A was an Apple-pie,' 368
A was an Archer, 370
Abington, Frances, 257
Absolute, captain, in Sheridan's Rivals,
266, 269
Sir Anthony, in Sheridan's Rivals,
266, 267
Acres, Bob, in Sheridan's Rivals, 266,
267
Act for the Encouragement of Learning,
314
Adam house, an, 377
Adams, J. Q. , 266
Adams, parson, in Joseph Andrews, 143
Addison, Joseph, 2, 206, 280, 320, 330;
Cato, 273
Adeline, in Mrs Radcliffe's Romance of
the Forest, 302
Advice to a Young Nobleman, 371
Aelfric, 366 ; Colloquy, 367
Aesop, 366, 490
Africa, 112
Africans, the, 159
Aguecheek, Sir Andrew, in Twelfth
Night, 266
Abania, Blake's, 194
Aikin, Anna Laetitia. See Barbauld
John (1747–1822), 382, 384, 477
Ailesbury, countess of, 282
Ainger, Alfred, Crabbe, 146
Akenside, Mark, 324; Pleasures of Ima.
gination, 323
Alasi, prince, in Beckford's Episodes,
291
Albion, in Blake's Jerusalem, 198, 199
Alcuin, 366
Aldeburgh, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147
Aldhelm, 366
Alembert, Jean B. le Rond d', 354
Alexandrines, 246
Alfoxden, 99, 102
Algarotti, Francesco, Newtonianismo per
le Dame, 356
Allen, Allarum to the Unconverted, 369
Alloway, 219
Alps, the, 96
Alscrip, in Burgoyne's Heiress, 275, 276
Miss, in Burgoyne's Heiress, 275
Alspice, in Morton's Way to get Married,
281
Alton, Miss, in Burgoyne's Heiress, 275
Altrive farm, in Yarrow, 239
Alvar, in Coleridge's Remorse, 414
Alvarez Espriella, Don Manuel, in
Southey's Letters from Spain, 163
Amanda, in Vanbrugh's Relapse and
Sheridan's Trip to Scarborough, 268
America, 3, 7, 10 ff. , 15, 20, 75, 119,
189, 190, 235, 236, 275, 380, 383
south, 60
United States of, 47 ff. , 72
American colonies, 5, 22
constitution, 71
Declaration of Independence, 71
war of independence, 5, 6, 16, 24
Americans, the, 11, 15. 19, 52
Amhurst, Nicholas, 172
Amory, Thomas (1691 ? -1788), 285 ff.
(main entry), 307; Life of John
Buncle, 285 ff. , 328, 329; Memoirs of
Several Ladies, 285, 287
Andersen, Hans Christian, 387, 491
Angel of Death, 31
Angellier, Auguste, 115
Anglican clergy, 309
• Anna Matilda. See Cowley, Hannah
Annals of Agriculture, 72
Anne, queen of Great Britain, 370, 372
Annual Register, 145, 324
Anstey, Christopher (1724–1805), 158,
160, 172, 424; New Bath Guide, 173
Anstruther, Fife, 243
Anti-Jacobin, The, 39 ff. , 157, 392
Anti-Jacobin Review, The, 392
Apollo press, 325
Arabian Nights, The, 161, 291
Arabian tales, 290, 374
Arabic language and literature, 290, 291,
355
Arber, Edward, 311, 339
Arblay, Frances Burney, Madame d',
289, 296, 344, 349, 354; Evelina, 365
Arcadia, 142, 287
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Index of Names
497
6
Argus, Arabella, 477; Adventures of a
Donkey, 383 ; Juvenile Spectator, 383
Argyll, Elizabeth, duchess of, 451
Ariosto, Ludovico, 157
Aristotle, 17, 134; Rhetoric, 16
Arley,' Della Cruscan poet, 177
Armour, Jean, 222
Armstrong, C. F. , Shakespeare to Shaw,
269
Arnold, Matthew, 136, 161; On Trans-
lating Homer, 90
Ashburton, Devonshire, 39
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 340
Ashfield, dame, in Morton's Speed the
Plough, 281
Asia, 16, 190
Athanasius, 287
Atlantic, the, 190
Atlantis, 190
Attic eloquence, 13
Aubrey, Augusta, in Cumberland's
Fashionable Lover, 265
Auchinleck, 235, 236
• Auld Hornie,' 212
Auld Licht' clergy, 212, 213, 216
Auld Nick, in Burns's Tam o' Shanter,
-Bampfylole, f. es
6
6
Saw Ye Johnie Comin, 231
Tam o' the Lin, 231
Baker, Samuel (d. 1788), 336
Thomas, The Yeoman of Kent, 321
Balcarres, Fife, 231
Baldwin, Edwin (pseud. of William
Godwin), 394
Balfour, John, 342
Ballad in Imitation of Martial, 174
Ballantyne novels, 295
press, 342, 469
James (1772–1833), 342
Robert Michael (1825-1894), 387
Ballantyne's Annual Register, 162
Ballard, Edward (d. 1796), 332
Ballards, the, 336, 337
Ballitore, Ireland, 1
Balmqubapple,' Fife, 242
Balzac,
Honoré de, 290, 305
Banbury, 373
Bank of England, 39
Bannatyne club, 231
Barbadoes, 279, 280
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, born Aikin
(1743–1825), 132, 343, 382, 477; Easy
Lessons, 384; Evenings at Home, 384;
Hymns in Prose, 384
• Bard, The,' Della Cruscan poet, 177
Bardolph, Shakespeare's, 289
Barham, Richard Harris, 160; Ingoldsby
Legends, 38
Barkiarokh, in Beckford's Episodes, 291
Barlow, Mr, in Sandford and Merton,
381, 382
Barnard, Lady Anne (Lady Anne Lindsay:
1750–1825), 442; Auld Robin Gray,
231; Why Tarries My Love, 232
Edward, 346
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820),
299, 459
Barry, Spranger, 257, 260
Barthélémon, François H. , 258
Basire, James, 181
Baskerville, John (1706–1775), 341
Bateman, Christopher, 331, 332, 336
Bates, William, Harmony of the divine
attributes, 316
Bath, 149, 173, 175, 283, 344, 347
knights of the, 282
colonel, in Fielding's Amelia, 265
Sir William Pulteney, earl of,
174, 248, 350, 352, 358
Thomas Thynne, 2nd marquis of,
148
Baxter, Richard, 334; Call to the Un-
converted, 369; Reliquiae Baxterianae,
316; Saints' Everlasting Rest, 316
Bayle, Pierre, Dictionary, 320
Bayly, Lewis, The Practice of Piety, 369
Beaconsfield, Burke's residence, 142
Beattie, James, 206, 342, 350; Essay on
Truth, 351; The Minstrel, 247, 351
Beaumarchais, Pierre A. C. de, Figaro,
262
Beaumont, Sir George, 130
Beaumont and Fletcher, 319
Beaupuy, Michel, 98
32
219
Aulnoy, Marie Catherine, countess de,
375, 491
Austen, Lady, 83, 87, 88
Jane, 285, 286; Northanger Abbey,
299
Avondale, Lord, in Morton's School of
Reform, 281
Aylmer, Brabazon, 319, 332
Ayrshire, 220, 235
B. B. (Lady Nairne), 233
Bab, Lady, in Burgoyne's Maid of the
Oaks, 265
Babees' Boke, The, 368
Babes in the Wood, The, 385
Babylon, in Blake's poems, 197, 199
Back, John, 335
Bacon, Francis, viscount St Albans, 11,
57
friar, 373
Bage, Robert (1728-1801), 295 ff. , 459
Barham Downs, 295, 296
Fair Syrian, 295
Hermsprong, or Man as he is not,
292, 295
James Wallace, 295
Man as he is, 295, 296
Mount Henneth, 295, 296
Bailey, J. C. , The Poems of William
Cowper, 83
Baillie, Lady Grizel, 231
Joanna (1762-1851), 149, 231
(main entry), 442, 456
De Montfort, 274
Fugitive Pieces, 231
It was on a morn, 231
Metrical Legends, 231
• My Bride he is winsome and bonnie,'
231
Poverty parts Good Company, 231
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Index of Names
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, marquis di,
66, 70; Crimes and Punishments, 64
Becket, Thomas, 315
Beckford, William (1759–1844), 289 ff. ,
306, 307, 459
Azemia, 289
Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Inci.
dents, 289
Episodes, 290 ff.
History of Extraordinary Painters, 289
Letters from Portugal, 289
Modern Novel Writing, 289
Vathek, 161, 289 ff. , 304
Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th duke of,
29, 30
Grosvenor, the elder, 154
Grosvenor, the younger, 154, 169,
172
Bee, The, 236
Belcour, in Cumberland's West Indian,
264, 265, 275
Belfast, 283
Belfield, in Cumberland's Brothers, 264
Belianis, Don, in The Tatler, 373
Belinda, in Miss Edgeworth's novel, 297
Bell, John (1745–1831), 325, 342
Bell's Weekly Messenger, 325
Bellamy, Daniel, the elder (b. 1687),
424
David, the younger (d. 1788), 424
Miss George Anne, 260
Samuel, 172
Belloy, Pierre L. B. de, Le Siège de
Calais, 274
Belson, Mrs. See Elliott, Mary
Belvoir, Leicestershire, 143, 144
Benares, rajah of, 14
* Benedict,’ Della Cruscan poet, 177
Bengal, 242
Benlow (or Bruce), Mrs Marinda, in
Amory's Memoirs of Several Ladies,
287
Bensley, Robert, 257
Bent, William, 339
Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), 57 ff.
(main entry), 136, 397
Anarchical Fallacies, 71
Book of Fallacies, 71
Chrestomathia, 72
Codification Proposals, 72
Constitutional Code, 71
Defence of Usury, 58
Deontology, 61
Fragment on Government, 58, 61 ff. , 71
Influence of Time and Place in Matters
of Legislation, 72
Introduction to the Principles of Morals
and Legislation, 58, 59, 64, 65, 69
Introductory view of the Rationale of
Evidence, 61
Poor Laws and Pauper Management, 72
Rationale of Evidence, 61
Table of the Springs of Action, 61, 65
Theory of Legislation, 68
Works, 60, 61
Bentham, Samuel, 58
Bentley, Richard (1662–1742), 341, 380
Bentley, Richard (1708-1782), 456; Philo-
damus, 274
Berenger, Richard, 362
Berinthia, in Vanbrugh's Relapse and
Sheridan's Trip to Scarborough, 268
Berkeley, George, 57, 100
Berquin, Arnaud, 491; L'Ami des En-
fans, 378, 382; Le Petit Grandisson,
382
Bertram, Sir Stephen, in Cumberland's
Jew, 282
Betterton, Thomas, 257
Betty, W. H. W. , 283, 452
Beulah, daughters of, in Blake's Four
Zoas, 196
Beverley, in Sheridan's Rivals, 266
Bevis, in The Tatler, 373
Bewick, Thomas, 377
Bible, the, 48, 89, 181, 188, 189, 237,
326, 363, 369; Corinthians, 355 ;
Psalms, 206, 237; Revelation, 197
society, 259
Bickerstaff, Isaac (d. 1812? ), 451; The
Padlock, 262
Isaac, of The Tatler, 373
Birch, Thomas, 356
Birmingham, 338, 340, 341
Black prince, the, 131
Blackbird, The, 234
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791), 233,
234, 442
Blackstone, Sir William, Commentaries,
61, 62, 66; Law Tracts, 61
Blackwood's Magazine, 148
Blair, Hugh, Sermons, 327
Robert, The Grave, 244
Blake, William (1757-1827), 176, 181 ff.
(main entry), 245, 250, 431
Africa, 194
America, 189, 190, 193
Auguries of Innocence, 200
Birds, The, 200
Blossom, The, 185
Book of Ahania, 193, 194
Book of Los, 193, 194
Book of Thel, 186, 187
Book of Urizen, 193 ff.
Chimney Sweeper, The, 185, 186
Clod and the Pebble, 191
Cradle Song, 186, 193
Crystal Cabinet, The, 199
Descriptive Catalogue, 200
Divine Image, The, 184
Dream, A, 185
Earth': Answer, 192
Echoing Green, The, 185
Europe, 193, 194, 197
Everlasting Gospel, The, 200
Fair Elenor, 182
Four Zoas, The, 196, 197
French Revolution, 189, 190
Ghost of Abel, 199
Golden Net, The, 199
Grey Monk, The, 199
Holy Thursday, 185, 191
How sweet I roam'd from field to
field,' 182
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499
I laid me down upon a bank,' 192 Bluebeard, 375
I love the jocund dance, 185
Bluestockings, the, 343 ff.
I told my love, 193
Blunderbore, giant, 374
Infant Joy, 186
Blunderhead family, in Anstey's New
Infant Sorrow, 192
Bath Guide, 173
Introduction, 192
Bobadill, in Jonson's Every Man in His
Island in the Moon, 183
Humour, 283
Jerusalem, 197 ff.
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st viscount,
King Edward the Third, 183
2 ff. , 9, 12, 26
Lamb, The, 186
Booth, Barton, 257
Land of Dreams, 199
Boquet, M. , 258
Laocoon, 199, 201
Borrowdale, 110
Laughing Song, 185
Boscawen, Mrs F. , 348, 354, 361 ff.
Little Black Boy, 186
Boswell, Sir Alexander (1775-1822), 442
Little Boy Lost, 192
Ah! Mary, sweetest maid, Farewell,
Mad Song, 170, 183
235
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 187 ff. , East Neuk of Fife, 236
192, 200
Jenny Dang the Weaver, 236
Mary, 200
Jenny's Bawbee, 236
Memorable Fancies, 188
New Whig Song, 236
Mental Traveller, The, 200
Paddy O'Rafferty, 236
Milton, 188, 197
Sir Albyn, 236
Morning, 199
Skeldon Haughs or the Sow fitted, 236
My silks and fine array, 183
Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect,
My Spectre around me, 200
236
Night, 185
Taste Life's Glad Moments, 236
No Natural Religion, 187
Boswell, James, 38, 235, 326, 333, 344 ff. ,
Note on The Canterbury Tales, 200 364; Life of Johnson, 13, 253, 325,
On Homer's Poetry, 201
344
On Virgil, 201
Botany bay, 58
Passions, The, 182
Bourne, Vincent, 83
Poetical Sketches, 181, 182, 184, 185 Bowdler, Thomas, 260
Public Address, 201
Bowles, Caroline. See Southey, Mrs
Schoolboy, The, 192
Caroline Anne
Smile, The, 199
William Lisle (1762-1850), 118,
Song of Liberty, 189
148, 177, 424
Song of Los, 193, 194
Bamborough Castle, 178
Song of Phebe, 184
Fourteen Sonnets, 178
Songs of Experience, 190 free
Hope, 178
Songs of Innocence, 184 ff. , 191, 192, Influence of Time on Grief, 178
196, 197, 384
Sonnets, 172
Spring, 185
Tynemouth, 178
Sunflower, The, 192
Bowring, John, 61
Tiger, The, 191, 192
Bowyer, William, the younger (1699–
Tiriel, 187
1777), 327, 471
To My Myrtle, 193
Boyse, Samuel (1708–1749), 172, 331, 425
To the Christians, 200
Bradshaw, William, 329; Parable of the
To the Deists, 200
Magpye, 330
To the Muses, 182
Brahma, 194
Vala, 195, 196
Brahmanical religion, 18
Vision of the Last Judgment, 197 Brailsford, H. N. , Shelley, Godwin and
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, their Circle, 276
190, 192
Bramble, Tabitha, in Smollett's Hum-
War Song to Englishmen, 183
phrey Clinker, 266
When old corruption first begun, 184 Brand, Hannah (d. 1821), 456
Wild Flower's Song, 193
Brash and Reid's Poetry Ancient and
William Bond, 200
Select, 243
Lambeth books, 189, 193, 195 ff. , 199 Breach, mistress, 332
Pickering MS, 199, 432
Brent, Charlotte, 260
Rossetti MS, 191, 197, 199, 200, 431 Breval, John Durant, Remarks on several
Blamire, Susanna (1747–1794), And Ye parts of Europe, 322
shall walk in Silk Attire, 232; Nabob, Brice, Andrew (1690–1773), 471
232; What ails this heart of Mine, Bridegroom Greets when the Sun gae's
232
doon, 231
Blandish, Mr and Mrs, in Burgoyne's Bright, John, 31
Heiress, 276
Brightland, John, 250
Blois, 97
Brindley, John, 323, 332
3242
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Index of Names
Bristol, 6, 15, 30, 132, 155, 156, 159,
283, 340, 341, 359, 361
Bristol Journal, 133, 134
British constitution, 8, 10, 12, 20, 26
empire, 13, 18
parliament, 20
theatre, 276
British Album, 177
Magazine, 260
Poets, 325, 326
Bromion, in Blake's Visions of the
Daughters of Albion, 190
Bromsgrove, 340
Brooks's club, 52
Broome, William, 246
Brothers, Richard, 163
Brown, Thomas, Elegy on Mr Edward
Millington, 336
William, 335
Browne, Sir Thomas, 2, 28; Religio
Medici, 318
Bruce, Michael (1746–1767), 442; Cuckoo,
The, 244; Elegy on Spring, 244; Poems
on Several Occasions, 244
Brunton, Mary (1778–1818), 459
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-
1837), 471
Bryskett, Lodowick, The Mourning Muse
of Thestylis, 179
Buccleuch, Charles W. H. Scott, 4th
duke of, 239
Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, 11th
earl of, 220
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd duke
of, The Rehearsal, 272
Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, 347
Bulwer-Lytton. See Lytton, Lord
Buncle, John, in Amory's Life of John
Buncle, 288, 296
Bunyan, John, 381, 477; Book for Boys
and Girls, 372; Divine Emblems, 372;
Pilgrim's Progress, 334
Bürger, Gottfried August, 303
Burges, Sir James Bland (Sir James
Lamb), (1752–1824), 177, 425
Burgh, Thomas, 6
Burgoyne, John (1722–1792), 31, 456 ;
Heiress, The, 275, 276; Maid of the
Oaks, 265, 275
Burke, Edmund (1529–1797), 1 ff. (main
entry), 34, 42, 47, 48, 52, 58, 93,
139, 142, 143, 145, 146, 262, 324,
360, 388
Address to the British Colonists, 5
Address to the King, 5, 21
Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs,
1
7, 21 ff.
Letter. . . to Member of the National
Assembly, 7
Letter. . . to a Noble Lord, 7, 29
Letter. . . to. . . Sheriff's of. . . Bristol, 5, 13
Letter to William Smith, 25
Letters on a Regicide Peace, 25, 31,
138
Letters . . . on the proposals for peace, 7
Observations on. . . 'The Present State
of the Nation,' 5, 7
On American Taxation, 5, 12, 21
On moving his Resolutions for Con-
ciliation, 5, 11, 12, 20, 26
On Mr Fox's East-India Bill, 16,
18, 19
Philosophical Enquiry into. . . the Sub-
lime and Beautiful, 2, 3
Reflections on the Revolution in France,
4, 7, 20, 22, 138
Remarks on the Policy of the Allies, 7
Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol,
6, 15
Speech on the. . . Nabob of Arcot's Pri.
vate Debts, 6, 16, 18, 31
Thoughts on French Affairs, 7
Thoughts on the. . . Present Discontents,
5, 8, 9
To a peer of Ireland on the Penal
Laws, 15
To Sir Hercules Langrishe, 15
Tracts relative to the Laws against
Popery, 14, 24
Two Letters. . . to Gentlemen. . . of Bristol,
6, 15
Vindication of Natural Society, 2 ff.
Burke, Richard, brother of Edmund
Burke, 6, 361
Richard, son of Edmund Burke, 6
William, 2, 6, 388
Burnet, “Theory,' 330
Burnett, James. See Monboddo, Lord
Burney, Frances. See Arblay, Madame d'
Burns, Robert (1759-1796), 182, 183,
203 ff. (main entry), 233 ff. , 237 ff. ,
242, 243, 435
Address to Edinburgh, 217
Address to the Deil, 212, 213
Address to the Unco Guid, 218
Auld Farmer's New Year Salutation,
212, 214
Auld Lang Syne, 225, 228, 232
Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, 212
Banks o' Doon, 230
Bard's Epitaph, 208
Birthday Ode, 208
Blue-eyed Lassie, 230
Brigs of Ayr, 218
Captain Matthew Henderson, 211, 219
Charlie he's my Darling, 229
Comin Thro' the Rye, 230
Corn Rigs, 205
Cotter's Saturday Night, 144, 206
Death and Doctor Hornbook, 212
Death and Dying Words of Poor
Mailie, 214
Despondency, 206, 217
Dream, A, 215
Duncan Davison, 229
Epistle to a Young Friend, 218
Epistle to Davie, 207, 217
Epistle to Lord Daer, 218
Epistles, 234
Epistles to Graham of Fintry, 208
Farewell, The, 217
Fintry My Stay, 218
From Esopus to Maria, 208
Gloomy Night, 205
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Index of Names
501
9
Green grow the Rashes o', 205
Guildford Good, 218
Halloween, 215, 216, 235
Handsome Nell, 206
Here's to the Health, 206
Holy Fair, 213, 215
Holy Willie's Prayer, 212, 213
How Lang and Drearie is the Night,
229
In Lamington Kirk, 208
Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's,
217
Inscribed to the Hon. C. J. Fox, 208
Is there for Honest Poverty,
229
It was a' for our Richtfu’ King, 225,
229
James Smith, 211
John Anderson My Jo, 229
John Lapraik, 211
Jolly Beggars, 206, 215, 217 ff. , 224
Kirk's Alarm, 213
Lament, The, 206, 217
Lass of Cessnock Banks, 206
Lines on the Fall of Fyers, 208
Logan Water, 235
MacPherson's Farewell, 228
Man was made to Mourn, 206, 217
Mary Morison, 230
Mauchline Wedding, 215
My Father was a Farmer, 206
No Churchman am I, 205
O Leeze me on my Spinnin Wheel, 230
O Merry Hae I been, 229
O Tibbie I hae seen the Day, 206
O Wert thou in the Cauld blast, 230
Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs
Oswald, 208
Ode to General Washington's Birthday,
208
Ode to the Departed Regency Bill, 208
Ode to the Departed Year, 208
Of a' the Airts, 230
On a Wag in Mauchline, 208
On Captain Grose, 208
On Grizzel Grimme, 208
On Holy Willie, 208
On John Dove, Innkeeper, 208
On Tam the Chapman, 208
On the Death of Lord President Dun-
das, 208
On the Death of Robert Ruisseaux, 208
On the Death of Sir James Hunter
Blair, 208
On the Late Miss Burnet of Mon.
boddo, 208
On Willie Nicol's Mare, 208
Ordination, The, 213, 215
Poems (Kilmarnock, 1786), 204 ff. , 220,
221, 342
Poems (Edinburgh, 1787), 205
Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten
Daughter, 212
Poor Mailie, 211, 214
Prayer in the prospect of Death, 206
Rantin Dog the Daddie O't, 230
Red, Red Rose, 225, 229
Remorse, 206
Reply to a Trimming Epistle, 211
Ruined Farmer, 206
Scotch Drink, 212
Scots Wha hae, 229
Tam o' Shanter, 215, 217 ff. , 224, 238
Tam Samson, 211
To a Louse, 214
To a Mountain Daisy, 214
To a Mouse, 214
To John Rankine, 211
To Ruin, 206, 217
To the Guidwife of Wauchope House,
217
Tragic Fragment, 206
Twa Dogs, 214, 217
Twa Herds, 213
Up in the Morning Early, 229
Vision, The, 207, 214
What can a Young Lassie, 229
Who is that at My Bower Door, 229
Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut, 230
Willie Simpson, 211
Works (1834–5), 237
Written with a Pencil at Taymouth,
208
Ye Banks and Braes, 230
Yestreen I had a pint o' Wine, 230
Burton, Richard, pseud. See Crouch,
Nathaniel
Bury St Edmunds, 140
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of, 174, 348
Butler, Samuel, 247; Hudibras, 318
Butts, captain, 196
Byerley, Thomas (d. 1826), 472
Byrom, John, 248
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 83, 91, 102,
108, 109, 117, 124, 144, 150, 158, 166,
167, 171, 178, 179, 300, 302 ff. , 306,
308, 414; Cain, 106, 199; Childe
Harold, 131; Siege of Corinth, 127
Bysshe. Edward (f. 1712), Art of
Poetry, 249, 250, 256
Cadell, Thomas (1742-1802), 326, 327,
361
Thomas, the younger (1773–1836),
327
Cadmus, in Dialogues of the Dead, 351
Cagliostro, Alessandro, count, 293
Cain, Byron's, 199
Calais, 97
Callaghan, Sir, in Macklin's Love à-la-
mode, 257
Calverley, C. S. , 379
Calvinism, 43, 213
Calvinists, 19
Cambridge, 57, 118, 150, 173, 335, 338,
340, 347, 355
St John's college, 96
Sturbridge fair, 340
University Press, 341
Cambridge English Classics, 150
Richard Owen, (1717-1802), 350,
365, 425
Cambridgeshire, 347
Cameron, Lucy Lyttelton (1781-1858),
485
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p. 243, 1. 8 from foot, for John read James
p. 257, 1. 23, for Bensly read Bensley
p. 263, 1. 19, for Griffiths's read Griffith's
footnote, for Celisia read Celesia
p. 275, l. 21, for The Sisters (1679) read The Sister (1769)
of footnote, for first 1791 read 1793
p. 281, 1. 35, for 1761 read 1791
p. 282, footnote, for P. Toynbee read Mrs P. Toynbee
p. 289, footnote 3, 1. 1, for Reading read Redding
p. 299, 1. 12 from foot, for Thorp read Thorpe
p. 300, 1. 1, for Anne read Ann
p. 326, 11. 33 and 42, for Straham read Strahan
p. 331, 1. 23, for Sobière read Sorbière
p. 374, 1. 13, for Corbett read Corbet
p. 379, 1. 5, for Venn read Fenn
p. 384, 1. 10 etc. , for Mrs Turner read Miss Turner
p. 435, 1. 9. The Glenriddel MSS, formerly in the Liverpool Athenaeum, are to
be placed in the custody of three trustees, and will be deposited in the cities of
Edinburgh and Glasgow for alternate periods of five years each.
p. 447, add Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth
Century (1642—1780). 1914.
p. 472, 1. 4, for Haste read Harte
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
on
1700 Death of Dryden.
1764 Death of Hogarth.
1702 Edward Bysshe's Art of 1765 Horace Walpole's Castle of
Poetry.
Otranto.
1709 First English Copyright Act. 1765-9 Blackstone's Commentaries.
1712 J. J. Rousseau born.
1766 C. Anstey's New Bath Guide.
1714-27 George I.
1766 Malthus born (d. 1834).
1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779). 1766 Lessing's Lavkoon.
1719 Death of Addison.
1768-71 Encyclopaedia Britannica,
1720 Mrs Elizabeth Montagu born 1st edn.
(d. 1800).
1769 R. Cumberland's The Brothers
1723 Blackstone born (d. 1780).
produced
1727-60 George II.
1770 Burke's Thoughts the
1727 Death of Newton.
Present Discontents.
1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1770 Wordsworth born (d. 1850).
1774).
1771 R. Cumberland's The West
1729 Burke born (d. 1797).
Indian.
1731 Cowper born (d. 1800).
1771 Walter Scott born (d. 1832).
1731 Death of Defoe.
1772 Coleridge born (d. 1834).
1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794). 1773 Goethe's Götz von Berlich-
1744 Death of Pope.
ingen.
1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833). 1773 Goldsmith's She Stoops to
1745 Death of Swift.
Conquer.
1748 Bentham born (d. 1832). 1774 Burke's Speech on American
1749 Goethe born.
Taxation.
1750 The bluestocking parties 1774 Southey born (d. 1843).
begin.
1774 Goethe's Sorrows of Werther.
1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816).
1775 Burke's Speech on Conciliation
1751 Encyclopédie, vols. I and 11.
with the Colonies.
1753 Dugald Stewart born (d. 1828). 1775 Grattan enters the Irish par-
1754 Crabbe born (d. 1832).
liament.
1756 Amory's John Buncle.
1775 Jane Austen born (d. 1817).
1756 Burke's Sublime and Beauti- 1775 Charles Lamb born (d. 1834)
ful.
1775 Sheridan's The Rivals.
1757–60 Pitt's first ministry.
1776 Bentham's A Fragment on
1757 Blake born (d. 1827).
Government.
1758 Mrs Carter's Epictetus.
1776 Death of Hume.
1759 British Museum opened. 1776 Adam Smith's The Wealth of
1759 Burns born (d. 1796).
Nations,
1760-1820 George III.
1776 The American Declaration of
1760 Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse. Independence.
1762 Wilkes's The North Briton. 1776 Gibbon's Decline and Fall,
1763 Rousseau's Contrat Social.
vol. 1.
I
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494
Table of Principal Dates
1777 Clara Reeve's The Champion
1
1777-84 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1791 Boswell's Life of Johnson.
2nd edn.
1791-2 T. Paine's The Rights of
1777 Hannah More's Percy.
Man.
1791 Ann Radcliffe's The Romance
of Virtue, afterwards The Old of the Forest.
English Baron.
1792 T. Holcroft's The Road to
1777 Sheridan's The School for Ruin.
Scandal and A Trip to Scar- 1792 Pitt's speech on the slave-trade.
borough produced.
1792-4 Arthur Young's Travels in
1778 Death of Rousseau.
France.
1778 Death of Voltaire.
1792 Shelley born (d. 1822).
1778 Hazlitt born (d. 1830).
1793 W. Godwin's Political Justice.
1779 Olney Hymns.
1794 W. Godwin's Caleb Williams.
1779 Lessing's Nathan der Weise. 1794 Blake's Songs of Experience.
1780 Arthur Young's Tour in Ire- 1794 Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries
land.
of Udolpho.
1781 William Pitt the younger and 1794 Southey's Wat Tyler written.
Sheridan enter parliament. 1794-5 Paine's The Age of Reason.
1781 Kant's Critique of Pure 1795 Carlyle born (d. 1881).
Reason.
1795 Keats born (d. 1821).
1781 Rousseau's Confessions.
1795 M. G. Lewis's The Monk.
1782 Cowper's Poems.
1796 Burke's A Letter to a Noble
1782 Mrs Siddons begins acting at Lord.
Drury lane.
1796 Southey's Joan of Arc.
1783 Crabbe's The Village.
1796 Bage's Hermsprong.
1783 Fox's India Bill.
1796 E. Inchbald's Nature and Art.
1783-1802 William Pitt the younger's 1796-8 Southey's Ballads written.
first ministry.
1797 Kotzebue popular the
1784 Beckford's Vathek written.
London stage.
1784 Death of Johnson.
1797 The Anti-Jacobin.
1785 Clara Reeve's Progress of Ro- 1797 Ann Radcliffe's The Italian.
mance.
1797 Heine born.
1785 Burke's speech On the Nabob 1797-1814 Wordsworth's Excursion
of Arcot's debts.
written.
1785 Cowper's The Task.
1798-1805 Wordsworth's Prelude
1785 Burke begins his attack on written.
Warren Hastings.
1798 Southey's Holly Tree written.
1786 Burns's Poems (Kilmarnock 1798 Malthus's Essay on the Prin-
edn).
ciple of Population.
1786 Burgoyne's The Heiress.
1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge's
1787 Sheridan's speech against Lyrical Ballads.
Warren Hastings.
1799 Balzac born.
1787 Colman's Inkle and Yarico. 1800 Schillers Wallenstein.
1788 The Times founded.
1800 Wordsworth’s Recluse written,
1788-97 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1801 Chateaubriand's Atala.
3rd edn.
1801 Southey's Thalaba.
1788 Byron born (d. 1824).
1802 Cobbett's Weekly Register
1788 Goethe's Egmont.
begins.
1789 Blake's Songs of Innocence. 1802 Victor Hugo born.
1789 Fall of the Bastille.
1802 The Edinburgh Review
1789 Bentham's The Principles of 1803 Jane Porter's Thaddeus of
Morals and Legislation.
Warsaw.
1790 Burke's Reflections on the 1804 Death of Kant.
Revolution in France,
1804-6 William Pitt's second minis-
1791 E. Inchbald's A Simple Story. try.
on
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Table of Principal Dates
495
1805 Southey's Madoc.
1805 Wordsworth's Ode to Duty
written.
1805 Death of Schiller.
1805 Chateaubriand's René.
1806 'All the Talents' ministry.
1807 Crabbe's The Parish Register.
1809 The Quarterly Review.
1809 Charles Darwin born (d. 1882).
1809 Tennyson born (d. 1892).
1809 Chateaubriand’s The Martyrs.
1810 Jane Porter's The Scottish
Chiefs.
1810 Crabbe's The Borough.
1810 Southey's The Curse of Ke-
hama.
1810 Mme de Staël's L'Allemagne.
1811 Thackeray born (d. 1863).
1812 Browning born (d. 1889).
1812 Crabbe's Tales.
1812 Dickens born (d. 1870).
1812 Maria Edgeworth's Absentee.
1813 Hogg's The Queen's Wake.
1813 Southey's The Life of Nelson.
1814 Southey's Roderick, the Last
of the Goths.
1816 Coleridge's Christabel.
1816 Peacock’s Headlong Hall.
1817 Coleridge's Biographia Lite-
raria.
1817 Peacock's Melincourt.
1817 Maria Edgeworth's Ormond.
1818 Peacock's Nightmare Abbey.
1819 Hope's Anastasius.
1820 Maturin's Melmoth the Wan-
derer.
1820 Southey's Life of Wesley.
1820-30 George IV.
1822 Peacock's Maid Marian.
1824-8 Godwin's Commonwealth of
England.
1829 Southey's Colloquies.
1829 Peacock's The Misfortunes of
Elphin.
1831 Peacock's Crotchet Castle.
1834-47 Southey's The Doctor.
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INDEX OF NAMES
[The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur 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. )
A Apple Pie, 386
. A was an Apple-pie,' 368
A was an Archer, 370
Abington, Frances, 257
Absolute, captain, in Sheridan's Rivals,
266, 269
Sir Anthony, in Sheridan's Rivals,
266, 267
Acres, Bob, in Sheridan's Rivals, 266,
267
Act for the Encouragement of Learning,
314
Adam house, an, 377
Adams, J. Q. , 266
Adams, parson, in Joseph Andrews, 143
Addison, Joseph, 2, 206, 280, 320, 330;
Cato, 273
Adeline, in Mrs Radcliffe's Romance of
the Forest, 302
Advice to a Young Nobleman, 371
Aelfric, 366 ; Colloquy, 367
Aesop, 366, 490
Africa, 112
Africans, the, 159
Aguecheek, Sir Andrew, in Twelfth
Night, 266
Abania, Blake's, 194
Aikin, Anna Laetitia. See Barbauld
John (1747–1822), 382, 384, 477
Ailesbury, countess of, 282
Ainger, Alfred, Crabbe, 146
Akenside, Mark, 324; Pleasures of Ima.
gination, 323
Alasi, prince, in Beckford's Episodes,
291
Albion, in Blake's Jerusalem, 198, 199
Alcuin, 366
Aldeburgh, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147
Aldhelm, 366
Alembert, Jean B. le Rond d', 354
Alexandrines, 246
Alfoxden, 99, 102
Algarotti, Francesco, Newtonianismo per
le Dame, 356
Allen, Allarum to the Unconverted, 369
Alloway, 219
Alps, the, 96
Alscrip, in Burgoyne's Heiress, 275, 276
Miss, in Burgoyne's Heiress, 275
Alspice, in Morton's Way to get Married,
281
Alton, Miss, in Burgoyne's Heiress, 275
Altrive farm, in Yarrow, 239
Alvar, in Coleridge's Remorse, 414
Alvarez Espriella, Don Manuel, in
Southey's Letters from Spain, 163
Amanda, in Vanbrugh's Relapse and
Sheridan's Trip to Scarborough, 268
America, 3, 7, 10 ff. , 15, 20, 75, 119,
189, 190, 235, 236, 275, 380, 383
south, 60
United States of, 47 ff. , 72
American colonies, 5, 22
constitution, 71
Declaration of Independence, 71
war of independence, 5, 6, 16, 24
Americans, the, 11, 15. 19, 52
Amhurst, Nicholas, 172
Amory, Thomas (1691 ? -1788), 285 ff.
(main entry), 307; Life of John
Buncle, 285 ff. , 328, 329; Memoirs of
Several Ladies, 285, 287
Andersen, Hans Christian, 387, 491
Angel of Death, 31
Angellier, Auguste, 115
Anglican clergy, 309
• Anna Matilda. See Cowley, Hannah
Annals of Agriculture, 72
Anne, queen of Great Britain, 370, 372
Annual Register, 145, 324
Anstey, Christopher (1724–1805), 158,
160, 172, 424; New Bath Guide, 173
Anstruther, Fife, 243
Anti-Jacobin, The, 39 ff. , 157, 392
Anti-Jacobin Review, The, 392
Apollo press, 325
Arabian Nights, The, 161, 291
Arabian tales, 290, 374
Arabic language and literature, 290, 291,
355
Arber, Edward, 311, 339
Arblay, Frances Burney, Madame d',
289, 296, 344, 349, 354; Evelina, 365
Arcadia, 142, 287
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Index of Names
497
6
Argus, Arabella, 477; Adventures of a
Donkey, 383 ; Juvenile Spectator, 383
Argyll, Elizabeth, duchess of, 451
Ariosto, Ludovico, 157
Aristotle, 17, 134; Rhetoric, 16
Arley,' Della Cruscan poet, 177
Armour, Jean, 222
Armstrong, C. F. , Shakespeare to Shaw,
269
Arnold, Matthew, 136, 161; On Trans-
lating Homer, 90
Ashburton, Devonshire, 39
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 340
Ashfield, dame, in Morton's Speed the
Plough, 281
Asia, 16, 190
Athanasius, 287
Atlantic, the, 190
Atlantis, 190
Attic eloquence, 13
Aubrey, Augusta, in Cumberland's
Fashionable Lover, 265
Auchinleck, 235, 236
• Auld Hornie,' 212
Auld Licht' clergy, 212, 213, 216
Auld Nick, in Burns's Tam o' Shanter,
-Bampfylole, f. es
6
6
Saw Ye Johnie Comin, 231
Tam o' the Lin, 231
Baker, Samuel (d. 1788), 336
Thomas, The Yeoman of Kent, 321
Balcarres, Fife, 231
Baldwin, Edwin (pseud. of William
Godwin), 394
Balfour, John, 342
Ballad in Imitation of Martial, 174
Ballantyne novels, 295
press, 342, 469
James (1772–1833), 342
Robert Michael (1825-1894), 387
Ballantyne's Annual Register, 162
Ballard, Edward (d. 1796), 332
Ballards, the, 336, 337
Ballitore, Ireland, 1
Balmqubapple,' Fife, 242
Balzac,
Honoré de, 290, 305
Banbury, 373
Bank of England, 39
Bannatyne club, 231
Barbadoes, 279, 280
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, born Aikin
(1743–1825), 132, 343, 382, 477; Easy
Lessons, 384; Evenings at Home, 384;
Hymns in Prose, 384
• Bard, The,' Della Cruscan poet, 177
Bardolph, Shakespeare's, 289
Barham, Richard Harris, 160; Ingoldsby
Legends, 38
Barkiarokh, in Beckford's Episodes, 291
Barlow, Mr, in Sandford and Merton,
381, 382
Barnard, Lady Anne (Lady Anne Lindsay:
1750–1825), 442; Auld Robin Gray,
231; Why Tarries My Love, 232
Edward, 346
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820),
299, 459
Barry, Spranger, 257, 260
Barthélémon, François H. , 258
Basire, James, 181
Baskerville, John (1706–1775), 341
Bateman, Christopher, 331, 332, 336
Bates, William, Harmony of the divine
attributes, 316
Bath, 149, 173, 175, 283, 344, 347
knights of the, 282
colonel, in Fielding's Amelia, 265
Sir William Pulteney, earl of,
174, 248, 350, 352, 358
Thomas Thynne, 2nd marquis of,
148
Baxter, Richard, 334; Call to the Un-
converted, 369; Reliquiae Baxterianae,
316; Saints' Everlasting Rest, 316
Bayle, Pierre, Dictionary, 320
Bayly, Lewis, The Practice of Piety, 369
Beaconsfield, Burke's residence, 142
Beattie, James, 206, 342, 350; Essay on
Truth, 351; The Minstrel, 247, 351
Beaumarchais, Pierre A. C. de, Figaro,
262
Beaumont, Sir George, 130
Beaumont and Fletcher, 319
Beaupuy, Michel, 98
32
219
Aulnoy, Marie Catherine, countess de,
375, 491
Austen, Lady, 83, 87, 88
Jane, 285, 286; Northanger Abbey,
299
Avondale, Lord, in Morton's School of
Reform, 281
Aylmer, Brabazon, 319, 332
Ayrshire, 220, 235
B. B. (Lady Nairne), 233
Bab, Lady, in Burgoyne's Maid of the
Oaks, 265
Babees' Boke, The, 368
Babes in the Wood, The, 385
Babylon, in Blake's poems, 197, 199
Back, John, 335
Bacon, Francis, viscount St Albans, 11,
57
friar, 373
Bage, Robert (1728-1801), 295 ff. , 459
Barham Downs, 295, 296
Fair Syrian, 295
Hermsprong, or Man as he is not,
292, 295
James Wallace, 295
Man as he is, 295, 296
Mount Henneth, 295, 296
Bailey, J. C. , The Poems of William
Cowper, 83
Baillie, Lady Grizel, 231
Joanna (1762-1851), 149, 231
(main entry), 442, 456
De Montfort, 274
Fugitive Pieces, 231
It was on a morn, 231
Metrical Legends, 231
• My Bride he is winsome and bonnie,'
231
Poverty parts Good Company, 231
E. L XI.
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498
Index of Names
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, marquis di,
66, 70; Crimes and Punishments, 64
Becket, Thomas, 315
Beckford, William (1759–1844), 289 ff. ,
306, 307, 459
Azemia, 289
Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Inci.
dents, 289
Episodes, 290 ff.
History of Extraordinary Painters, 289
Letters from Portugal, 289
Modern Novel Writing, 289
Vathek, 161, 289 ff. , 304
Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th duke of,
29, 30
Grosvenor, the elder, 154
Grosvenor, the younger, 154, 169,
172
Bee, The, 236
Belcour, in Cumberland's West Indian,
264, 265, 275
Belfast, 283
Belfield, in Cumberland's Brothers, 264
Belianis, Don, in The Tatler, 373
Belinda, in Miss Edgeworth's novel, 297
Bell, John (1745–1831), 325, 342
Bell's Weekly Messenger, 325
Bellamy, Daniel, the elder (b. 1687),
424
David, the younger (d. 1788), 424
Miss George Anne, 260
Samuel, 172
Belloy, Pierre L. B. de, Le Siège de
Calais, 274
Belson, Mrs. See Elliott, Mary
Belvoir, Leicestershire, 143, 144
Benares, rajah of, 14
* Benedict,’ Della Cruscan poet, 177
Bengal, 242
Benlow (or Bruce), Mrs Marinda, in
Amory's Memoirs of Several Ladies,
287
Bensley, Robert, 257
Bent, William, 339
Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), 57 ff.
(main entry), 136, 397
Anarchical Fallacies, 71
Book of Fallacies, 71
Chrestomathia, 72
Codification Proposals, 72
Constitutional Code, 71
Defence of Usury, 58
Deontology, 61
Fragment on Government, 58, 61 ff. , 71
Influence of Time and Place in Matters
of Legislation, 72
Introduction to the Principles of Morals
and Legislation, 58, 59, 64, 65, 69
Introductory view of the Rationale of
Evidence, 61
Poor Laws and Pauper Management, 72
Rationale of Evidence, 61
Table of the Springs of Action, 61, 65
Theory of Legislation, 68
Works, 60, 61
Bentham, Samuel, 58
Bentley, Richard (1662–1742), 341, 380
Bentley, Richard (1708-1782), 456; Philo-
damus, 274
Berenger, Richard, 362
Berinthia, in Vanbrugh's Relapse and
Sheridan's Trip to Scarborough, 268
Berkeley, George, 57, 100
Berquin, Arnaud, 491; L'Ami des En-
fans, 378, 382; Le Petit Grandisson,
382
Bertram, Sir Stephen, in Cumberland's
Jew, 282
Betterton, Thomas, 257
Betty, W. H. W. , 283, 452
Beulah, daughters of, in Blake's Four
Zoas, 196
Beverley, in Sheridan's Rivals, 266
Bevis, in The Tatler, 373
Bewick, Thomas, 377
Bible, the, 48, 89, 181, 188, 189, 237,
326, 363, 369; Corinthians, 355 ;
Psalms, 206, 237; Revelation, 197
society, 259
Bickerstaff, Isaac (d. 1812? ), 451; The
Padlock, 262
Isaac, of The Tatler, 373
Birch, Thomas, 356
Birmingham, 338, 340, 341
Black prince, the, 131
Blackbird, The, 234
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791), 233,
234, 442
Blackstone, Sir William, Commentaries,
61, 62, 66; Law Tracts, 61
Blackwood's Magazine, 148
Blair, Hugh, Sermons, 327
Robert, The Grave, 244
Blake, William (1757-1827), 176, 181 ff.
(main entry), 245, 250, 431
Africa, 194
America, 189, 190, 193
Auguries of Innocence, 200
Birds, The, 200
Blossom, The, 185
Book of Ahania, 193, 194
Book of Los, 193, 194
Book of Thel, 186, 187
Book of Urizen, 193 ff.
Chimney Sweeper, The, 185, 186
Clod and the Pebble, 191
Cradle Song, 186, 193
Crystal Cabinet, The, 199
Descriptive Catalogue, 200
Divine Image, The, 184
Dream, A, 185
Earth': Answer, 192
Echoing Green, The, 185
Europe, 193, 194, 197
Everlasting Gospel, The, 200
Fair Elenor, 182
Four Zoas, The, 196, 197
French Revolution, 189, 190
Ghost of Abel, 199
Golden Net, The, 199
Grey Monk, The, 199
Holy Thursday, 185, 191
How sweet I roam'd from field to
field,' 182
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I laid me down upon a bank,' 192 Bluebeard, 375
I love the jocund dance, 185
Bluestockings, the, 343 ff.
I told my love, 193
Blunderbore, giant, 374
Infant Joy, 186
Blunderhead family, in Anstey's New
Infant Sorrow, 192
Bath Guide, 173
Introduction, 192
Bobadill, in Jonson's Every Man in His
Island in the Moon, 183
Humour, 283
Jerusalem, 197 ff.
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st viscount,
King Edward the Third, 183
2 ff. , 9, 12, 26
Lamb, The, 186
Booth, Barton, 257
Land of Dreams, 199
Boquet, M. , 258
Laocoon, 199, 201
Borrowdale, 110
Laughing Song, 185
Boscawen, Mrs F. , 348, 354, 361 ff.
Little Black Boy, 186
Boswell, Sir Alexander (1775-1822), 442
Little Boy Lost, 192
Ah! Mary, sweetest maid, Farewell,
Mad Song, 170, 183
235
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 187 ff. , East Neuk of Fife, 236
192, 200
Jenny Dang the Weaver, 236
Mary, 200
Jenny's Bawbee, 236
Memorable Fancies, 188
New Whig Song, 236
Mental Traveller, The, 200
Paddy O'Rafferty, 236
Milton, 188, 197
Sir Albyn, 236
Morning, 199
Skeldon Haughs or the Sow fitted, 236
My silks and fine array, 183
Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect,
My Spectre around me, 200
236
Night, 185
Taste Life's Glad Moments, 236
No Natural Religion, 187
Boswell, James, 38, 235, 326, 333, 344 ff. ,
Note on The Canterbury Tales, 200 364; Life of Johnson, 13, 253, 325,
On Homer's Poetry, 201
344
On Virgil, 201
Botany bay, 58
Passions, The, 182
Bourne, Vincent, 83
Poetical Sketches, 181, 182, 184, 185 Bowdler, Thomas, 260
Public Address, 201
Bowles, Caroline. See Southey, Mrs
Schoolboy, The, 192
Caroline Anne
Smile, The, 199
William Lisle (1762-1850), 118,
Song of Liberty, 189
148, 177, 424
Song of Los, 193, 194
Bamborough Castle, 178
Song of Phebe, 184
Fourteen Sonnets, 178
Songs of Experience, 190 free
Hope, 178
Songs of Innocence, 184 ff. , 191, 192, Influence of Time on Grief, 178
196, 197, 384
Sonnets, 172
Spring, 185
Tynemouth, 178
Sunflower, The, 192
Bowring, John, 61
Tiger, The, 191, 192
Bowyer, William, the younger (1699–
Tiriel, 187
1777), 327, 471
To My Myrtle, 193
Boyse, Samuel (1708–1749), 172, 331, 425
To the Christians, 200
Bradshaw, William, 329; Parable of the
To the Deists, 200
Magpye, 330
To the Muses, 182
Brahma, 194
Vala, 195, 196
Brahmanical religion, 18
Vision of the Last Judgment, 197 Brailsford, H. N. , Shelley, Godwin and
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, their Circle, 276
190, 192
Bramble, Tabitha, in Smollett's Hum-
War Song to Englishmen, 183
phrey Clinker, 266
When old corruption first begun, 184 Brand, Hannah (d. 1821), 456
Wild Flower's Song, 193
Brash and Reid's Poetry Ancient and
William Bond, 200
Select, 243
Lambeth books, 189, 193, 195 ff. , 199 Breach, mistress, 332
Pickering MS, 199, 432
Brent, Charlotte, 260
Rossetti MS, 191, 197, 199, 200, 431 Breval, John Durant, Remarks on several
Blamire, Susanna (1747–1794), And Ye parts of Europe, 322
shall walk in Silk Attire, 232; Nabob, Brice, Andrew (1690–1773), 471
232; What ails this heart of Mine, Bridegroom Greets when the Sun gae's
232
doon, 231
Blandish, Mr and Mrs, in Burgoyne's Bright, John, 31
Heiress, 276
Brightland, John, 250
Blois, 97
Brindley, John, 323, 332
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Index of Names
Bristol, 6, 15, 30, 132, 155, 156, 159,
283, 340, 341, 359, 361
Bristol Journal, 133, 134
British constitution, 8, 10, 12, 20, 26
empire, 13, 18
parliament, 20
theatre, 276
British Album, 177
Magazine, 260
Poets, 325, 326
Bromion, in Blake's Visions of the
Daughters of Albion, 190
Bromsgrove, 340
Brooks's club, 52
Broome, William, 246
Brothers, Richard, 163
Brown, Thomas, Elegy on Mr Edward
Millington, 336
William, 335
Browne, Sir Thomas, 2, 28; Religio
Medici, 318
Bruce, Michael (1746–1767), 442; Cuckoo,
The, 244; Elegy on Spring, 244; Poems
on Several Occasions, 244
Brunton, Mary (1778–1818), 459
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-
1837), 471
Bryskett, Lodowick, The Mourning Muse
of Thestylis, 179
Buccleuch, Charles W. H. Scott, 4th
duke of, 239
Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, 11th
earl of, 220
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd duke
of, The Rehearsal, 272
Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, 347
Bulwer-Lytton. See Lytton, Lord
Buncle, John, in Amory's Life of John
Buncle, 288, 296
Bunyan, John, 381, 477; Book for Boys
and Girls, 372; Divine Emblems, 372;
Pilgrim's Progress, 334
Bürger, Gottfried August, 303
Burges, Sir James Bland (Sir James
Lamb), (1752–1824), 177, 425
Burgh, Thomas, 6
Burgoyne, John (1722–1792), 31, 456 ;
Heiress, The, 275, 276; Maid of the
Oaks, 265, 275
Burke, Edmund (1529–1797), 1 ff. (main
entry), 34, 42, 47, 48, 52, 58, 93,
139, 142, 143, 145, 146, 262, 324,
360, 388
Address to the British Colonists, 5
Address to the King, 5, 21
Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs,
1
7, 21 ff.
Letter. . . to Member of the National
Assembly, 7
Letter. . . to a Noble Lord, 7, 29
Letter. . . to. . . Sheriff's of. . . Bristol, 5, 13
Letter to William Smith, 25
Letters on a Regicide Peace, 25, 31,
138
Letters . . . on the proposals for peace, 7
Observations on. . . 'The Present State
of the Nation,' 5, 7
On American Taxation, 5, 12, 21
On moving his Resolutions for Con-
ciliation, 5, 11, 12, 20, 26
On Mr Fox's East-India Bill, 16,
18, 19
Philosophical Enquiry into. . . the Sub-
lime and Beautiful, 2, 3
Reflections on the Revolution in France,
4, 7, 20, 22, 138
Remarks on the Policy of the Allies, 7
Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol,
6, 15
Speech on the. . . Nabob of Arcot's Pri.
vate Debts, 6, 16, 18, 31
Thoughts on French Affairs, 7
Thoughts on the. . . Present Discontents,
5, 8, 9
To a peer of Ireland on the Penal
Laws, 15
To Sir Hercules Langrishe, 15
Tracts relative to the Laws against
Popery, 14, 24
Two Letters. . . to Gentlemen. . . of Bristol,
6, 15
Vindication of Natural Society, 2 ff.
Burke, Richard, brother of Edmund
Burke, 6, 361
Richard, son of Edmund Burke, 6
William, 2, 6, 388
Burnet, “Theory,' 330
Burnett, James. See Monboddo, Lord
Burney, Frances. See Arblay, Madame d'
Burns, Robert (1759-1796), 182, 183,
203 ff. (main entry), 233 ff. , 237 ff. ,
242, 243, 435
Address to Edinburgh, 217
Address to the Deil, 212, 213
Address to the Unco Guid, 218
Auld Farmer's New Year Salutation,
212, 214
Auld Lang Syne, 225, 228, 232
Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, 212
Banks o' Doon, 230
Bard's Epitaph, 208
Birthday Ode, 208
Blue-eyed Lassie, 230
Brigs of Ayr, 218
Captain Matthew Henderson, 211, 219
Charlie he's my Darling, 229
Comin Thro' the Rye, 230
Corn Rigs, 205
Cotter's Saturday Night, 144, 206
Death and Doctor Hornbook, 212
Death and Dying Words of Poor
Mailie, 214
Despondency, 206, 217
Dream, A, 215
Duncan Davison, 229
Epistle to a Young Friend, 218
Epistle to Davie, 207, 217
Epistle to Lord Daer, 218
Epistles, 234
Epistles to Graham of Fintry, 208
Farewell, The, 217
Fintry My Stay, 218
From Esopus to Maria, 208
Gloomy Night, 205
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9
Green grow the Rashes o', 205
Guildford Good, 218
Halloween, 215, 216, 235
Handsome Nell, 206
Here's to the Health, 206
Holy Fair, 213, 215
Holy Willie's Prayer, 212, 213
How Lang and Drearie is the Night,
229
In Lamington Kirk, 208
Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's,
217
Inscribed to the Hon. C. J. Fox, 208
Is there for Honest Poverty,
229
It was a' for our Richtfu’ King, 225,
229
James Smith, 211
John Anderson My Jo, 229
John Lapraik, 211
Jolly Beggars, 206, 215, 217 ff. , 224
Kirk's Alarm, 213
Lament, The, 206, 217
Lass of Cessnock Banks, 206
Lines on the Fall of Fyers, 208
Logan Water, 235
MacPherson's Farewell, 228
Man was made to Mourn, 206, 217
Mary Morison, 230
Mauchline Wedding, 215
My Father was a Farmer, 206
No Churchman am I, 205
O Leeze me on my Spinnin Wheel, 230
O Merry Hae I been, 229
O Tibbie I hae seen the Day, 206
O Wert thou in the Cauld blast, 230
Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs
Oswald, 208
Ode to General Washington's Birthday,
208
Ode to the Departed Regency Bill, 208
Ode to the Departed Year, 208
Of a' the Airts, 230
On a Wag in Mauchline, 208
On Captain Grose, 208
On Grizzel Grimme, 208
On Holy Willie, 208
On John Dove, Innkeeper, 208
On Tam the Chapman, 208
On the Death of Lord President Dun-
das, 208
On the Death of Robert Ruisseaux, 208
On the Death of Sir James Hunter
Blair, 208
On the Late Miss Burnet of Mon.
boddo, 208
On Willie Nicol's Mare, 208
Ordination, The, 213, 215
Poems (Kilmarnock, 1786), 204 ff. , 220,
221, 342
Poems (Edinburgh, 1787), 205
Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten
Daughter, 212
Poor Mailie, 211, 214
Prayer in the prospect of Death, 206
Rantin Dog the Daddie O't, 230
Red, Red Rose, 225, 229
Remorse, 206
Reply to a Trimming Epistle, 211
Ruined Farmer, 206
Scotch Drink, 212
Scots Wha hae, 229
Tam o' Shanter, 215, 217 ff. , 224, 238
Tam Samson, 211
To a Louse, 214
To a Mountain Daisy, 214
To a Mouse, 214
To John Rankine, 211
To Ruin, 206, 217
To the Guidwife of Wauchope House,
217
Tragic Fragment, 206
Twa Dogs, 214, 217
Twa Herds, 213
Up in the Morning Early, 229
Vision, The, 207, 214
What can a Young Lassie, 229
Who is that at My Bower Door, 229
Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut, 230
Willie Simpson, 211
Works (1834–5), 237
Written with a Pencil at Taymouth,
208
Ye Banks and Braes, 230
Yestreen I had a pint o' Wine, 230
Burton, Richard, pseud. See Crouch,
Nathaniel
Bury St Edmunds, 140
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of, 174, 348
Butler, Samuel, 247; Hudibras, 318
Butts, captain, 196
Byerley, Thomas (d. 1826), 472
Byrom, John, 248
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 83, 91, 102,
108, 109, 117, 124, 144, 150, 158, 166,
167, 171, 178, 179, 300, 302 ff. , 306,
308, 414; Cain, 106, 199; Childe
Harold, 131; Siege of Corinth, 127
Bysshe. Edward (f. 1712), Art of
Poetry, 249, 250, 256
Cadell, Thomas (1742-1802), 326, 327,
361
Thomas, the younger (1773–1836),
327
Cadmus, in Dialogues of the Dead, 351
Cagliostro, Alessandro, count, 293
Cain, Byron's, 199
Calais, 97
Callaghan, Sir, in Macklin's Love à-la-
mode, 257
Calverley, C. S. , 379
Calvinism, 43, 213
Calvinists, 19
Cambridge, 57, 118, 150, 173, 335, 338,
340, 347, 355
St John's college, 96
Sturbridge fair, 340
University Press, 341
Cambridge English Classics, 150
Richard Owen, (1717-1802), 350,
365, 425
Cambridgeshire, 347
Cameron, Lucy Lyttelton (1781-1858),
485
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