A Compendium of English LiteratureReprint of the original. |
Contents
SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE | 17 |
Rome | 21 |
Wielifs Apology | 23 |
Poetry | 26 |
The Knight and Squire | 29 |
89 | 57 |
Influence on the Reformation note 28 | 61 |
Cause and Effect | 67 |
note | 294 |
Education | 302 |
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY | 307 |
ANDREW MARVELL | 317 |
ROBERT BARCLAY | 324 |
HENRY VAUGHAN | 339 |
JOHN DRYDEN | 346 |
Chaucer and Cowley | 353 |
43 | 73 |
Prose Works | 81 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE | 87 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 93 |
Belphœbe | 100 |
Criticisms of Mackintosh Haslitt | 120 |
KIR THOMAS MORE | 138 |
Fame to be kept bright by Activity | 142 |
Chevy Chase | 154 |
Taverners Bible | 162 |
MICHAEL DRAYTON | 169 |
THOMAS SACK VILLE | 185 |
176 | 207 |
On Covetousness | 222 |
Decay of Human Greatness | 231 |
JOHN MILTON | 239 |
ness | 258 |
Argument for the Liberty of the Press | 265 |
To his Childrenupon regulating their | 275 |
What is Wit? | 281 |
OWEN FELLTHAM | 288 |
122 | 387 |
361 | 418 |
865 | 424 |
Preface to his Maxims | 430 |
THOMAS YALDEN | 446 |
His Various Writings | 468 |
ISAAC WATTS | 473 |
640 | 489 |
PHILIP DODDRIDGE | 499 |
Doleful Kvils of the Press 288 ROBERT BOYLE | 517 |
607 | 563 |
108 | 658 |
The Study of Natural Philosophy | 677 |
627 | 695 |
EDMUND BURKE | 712 |
WILLIAM COWPER | 717 |
WILLIAM COWPER | 734 |
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