Language, benefits of knowing a for-
eign, 139, 140; helpfulness of trans-
lating, 140, 141.
Lassels, Richard, cited, 139.
Latin, long equivalent to "language,"
133; an infallible pickle for thoughts,
Lecturing, the law of, 185.
Legislation, dangerous consequences
of ill-considered, 96.
Lessing, as a critic, 113.
Lincoln, Abraham, the English of,
216.
Literature, speaks in the universal
tongue, 158; becomes more melan-
choly as it becomes more modern,
163; no advance in, since the Greeks,
175; early, in France, 191; versus
newspapers, 309, 310.
Love of Amos and Laura, The, 63.
Lowell Institute, lectures at the, 186.
Macaulay, on Charles Blount, 103.
Mackintosh, Sir James, on Words-
worth, 37.
Major, John, on Izaak Walton's busi-
ness, 67.
Malherbe and Horace compared, 41.
Man, converted into a Perfect Being,
8,9; his development, 168; his ap-
prenticeship, 169; his inventiveness,
170-172; his faculty of organization,
173; his necessity of conceiving an
ideal, 174; his highest distinction
and safeguard, 182, 183.
Many-sidedness, the essence of cul-
ture, 156.
MARLOWE, 212-238; his birth and edu-
cation, 218; his death, 219; a lib-
eral thinker, 219; a lavish and
grandiose writer, 220; no characters
in his plays, 230; his influence on
Shakespeare, 226; on Keats and Mil-
ton, 237; unerring in his poetic in-
stinct, 238. See also General Index
in Vol. VI.
Drayton on, 222, 223; Chapman on,
Come live with me, 70, 74; Dr. Fau-
stus, 115, 233-236; Tamburlaine,
220-222; Dido, Queen of Carthage,
224; The Jew of Malta, 225, 230;
Edward II., 226-228; Hero and
Leander, 237.
Massinger, Philip, his birth and boy-
hood, 297; his education, 298; his
connection with the stage, 299; Sir
Henry Herbert's condemnation of
two plays, now lost, 299, 300; free
expression of his opinions, 301; his
probable politics, 300, 302; not un-
like Mr. Ruskin on some points,
302; a man of large sympathies,
302; the Roman Actor quoted, 303-
305; his burial, 305; number of his
plays, 305; their excellent qualities,
306, 307; occasional foulness of his
lower characters, 307; Lamb's esti-
mate of, 307; his improbabilities
never impossible, 310; inferior as a
poet, excellent as a dramatist, 311.
MASSINGER AND FORD, 297-316.
Masson, David, his fruitful researches
in regard to Milton, 98; also, 115.
Mermaid Tavern, the, 199.
Milton, in many respects an ancient,
3; on copyright, 97; his tract on
Divorce, 98, 99; denounced by the
Stationers, 98; censor of the press,
100, 101; not a democrat in the
modern sense, 101; his unconscious
mental reservation, 102; Coleridge
on, 104; his influence on Burke,
104; his prose works never popular,
104-106; his prose often difficult
and coarse, 105; his blank verse
unrivalled, 106; a mint-master of
language, 106; the most eloquent
of Englishmen, 108; incorrectly
taxed with Latinism, 108; his un-
usual English words, 108; as an ad-
versary, 109; incomparable efficacy
of parts of his prose writings, 109.
See also General Inder in Vol. VI.
Iconoclastes, 97; Second Defence,
99, 100; History of Britain, 101;
Reason of Church Government,
105.
MILTON'S AREOPAGITICA, 94-110; ori-
gin of, 98; a plea in his own behalf,
99; part of a larger scheme, 99;
embodies the principle of universal
toleration, 100; produced little im-
mediate effect, 102; reprinted with
preface by Thomson, 103; its spirit,
110.
Miracle Plays, English, 189; French,
191.
Mirror for Magistrates, the, 214.
Misjudgment, the right of private, 96.
MODERN LANGUAGES, THE STUDY OF,
131-159.
Modern languages, invented at Shi-
nar, 131; add largely to our re-
sources, 148; importance of study-
ing, 154; improvement in methods
of teaching, 155, 156; the literature
of, 158.
Modern Spirit, the, a borrower from
the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 164.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 98.
Nares, Archdeacon, 86.
Natural right, the right of superior
force is the only, 179.
Newfoundlanders say fish when they
mean cod, 133.
Newspaper editor, the, 179, 180.
Newspaper, suppressed by the Gen-
eral Court of Massachusetts, 95.
Newspapers, a needed sanctuary from,
309, 310.
New Testament, dynamite in the, 181.
Nicolas, Sir Harris, his Life of Walton,
61-63, 66, 68, 84, 86.
OLD ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, THE, 185-
211; earlier volume on, 187; who
they were, 194, 195; their use of
their native tongue, 201; many of
them dull, 202; had no dramatic
genius, 208; our ignorance of their
personal history, 262.
Old Testament, its triumphs of well-
measured words, 107.
Otherwisemindedness, common to Old
England and New England, 94.
Owen, Robert, remark to Wilberforce,
94.
Pamphlets, during the English Civil
War, 94, 96.
Pardoner and the Frere, quoted, 191.
Partonopeus de Blois, quoted, 134.
Peele, George, 204.
Personal equation, the, in literary
judgment, 150, 151.
Pindar, his influence on Gray, 33.
Plutarch, a delightful story-teller, 44;
had a true sense of proportion, 58.
Poe, Edgar Allan, economized his in-
spiration, 66.
Poesy, a divine madness, 2.
Poet, a, not translatable, 281.
Poetry, of the eighteenth century,
wanting in the imaginative quality,
1; indiscretions make the charm of,
2; the difference between it and
prose, 41; the neglect of, an un-
healthy symptom, 211; as a criti-
cism of life, 315.
Poets, elegiac, 69; the uses of, 316.
Pope, a great corrector of his own
verses, 31.
Powers that be, egotism of the, 97.
Press, the, muzzled, 95, 96.
Printing, restrained by Parliament,
95; influence of the invention of,
136.
PROGRESS OF THE WORLD, THE, 160-184.
Prose, governed by exact laws, 106,
Ramesey, Dr. William, on the German
tongue and worms, 137 and n.
Richardson, made long-windedness
seem a benefaction, 12.
Right, but one natural, 179.
Rojas, Fernando de, 192, 193.
Rousseau, read for amusement, 9;
quoted, 109.
Rueda, Lope de, founder of the Span-
ish theatre, 193.
| Samson, Abbot, prejudiced against
French, 136.
Sanderson, Bishop, 75, 87.
Sandys, George, 80 n.
Science, the gift of modern, 167; the
advance of, 182.
Scriptures, explosive material in the,
96.
Sect, the nucleus of a, 94.
Shakespeare, never wrote deliberate
nonsense, 111; perfection of his me-
tre, 111, 112; his style, 114; Spen-
ser and Marlowe his masters of ver-
sification, 115; compared with
Fletcher and Chapman, 119, 120;
dramatic passion in his versification,
120; his influence on other poets,
121; three eminent qualities of, 121-
124; as a caterer for the public
taste, 125; his patriotism, 126; his
management of the supernatural,
126, 128; a source of intellectual
training, 130; his skill in dramatic
construction, 242-244. See also Gen-
eral Inder in Vol. VI.
Goethe on, 125.
Venus and Adonis, 117; The Tem-
pest, 117; Cymbeline, 120, 229; Mid-
summer Night's Dream, 122; Two
Noble Kinsmen, 123.
SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD III., 111-130;
authorship questioned, 110; defi-
cient in Shakespeare's three emi-
nent qualities, 124; thoroughly mel-
odramatic, 125; its almost ludicrous
procession of ghosts, 126, 128; an
effective acting play, 128; probably
an adaptation from an older author,
129.
Shelley, a great corrector of his own
verses, 31.
Shirley, James, 195; not the author of
the Tragedy of Chabot, 272.
Sidney, Sir Philip, 145; a modernizer
of English, 213; Drayton on, 214;
sonnet by, 215.
Singer, S. W., 83, 84.
Sisera, 107.
Skelton, Philip Sparowe cited, 148.
Socialism, a serious factor, 180-182.
Sorrow, secretiveness of real, 313.
Soul, the, in literature, 142.
Spenser, his service in developing the
English language, 212; influence of
Italian poetry on, 213.
Stage, license of the early English,
301.
State, the, 178, 179.
Stationers' Hall, 97.
Steele, and Addison, together made a
man of genius, 12.
Sterne, a subtle humorist, 12; perfec-
tion of his style, 145.
Sainte-Beuve, on Gray, 22; a detec- Still, John, 190.
tive critic, 263.
Salvini, as Othello, 128.
Style, as a test of authenticity, 114;
hard to teach, 115.
Walking, a miraculous performance,
170.
Walpole, Horace, his quarrel with
Gray, 14, 15; also 111.
Walton, Henry, of London, 62.
WALTON, 57-93; his life a by-path, 59;
not an idle man, 60; his books mas-
terpieces, 60; his birth and educa-
tion, 61; his literary friends, 61; ig-
norant of Latin, 61, 62; in London,
62, 63, 65, 73; a writer of verse, 63,
64; his cultivation of simplicity, 64,
65, 71; twice married, 65, 66; his
friendship with Donne, 65; his chil-
dren, 66, 82; his occupation, 67; a
dutiful citizen, 68; his first appear-
ance as an author, 64, 68; his elegy
on Donne, 64, 68, 69; not a rhyth-
mist, 70; his lyrics clubfooted, 70;
his memory, 76, 77; his genius for
rambling, 76; his old age spent in
Winchester, 78; incapable of envy,
79; knew nearly the whole Episco-
pal bench of his day, 80; his habit-
ual recognition of obligation to God,
83; his will, 86, 87; his death, 86;
on landlords, 87; personal traits, 87,
88; the innocency of his way of
writing, 91; his credulity, 91; his
love of Nature, 92; his literary ori-
ginality, 93.
Complete Angler, 57 n., 66, 73, 74, 79,
81, 88, 89; Life of Donne, 64, 71, 72;
Life of Herbert, 64, 72, 82; The An-
gler's Wish, 66; Reliquiæ Wottoni-
anx, 74; Life of Sanderson, 79, 82;
Life of Hooker, 80 n., 82; Thealma
and Clearchus, 83-86.
WEBSTER, 239-261; his gratuitous mis-
cellaneousness of plot, 243; the spe-
cial weakness of his plays, 245; his
sense of humor, 253; abounds in
metaphysical apothegms, 253; com-
pared with Chapman, 253; his sim-
ple pathos, 257; suggestive of Victor
Hugo, 260. See also General Index
The Devil's Law Case analyzed, 243,
245-254; Appius and Virginia, 254,
255; The White Devil analyzed,
256-260; Duchess of Malfi, 254, 255,
260.
Whimsey, the nucleus of a sect, 94.
White, Gilbert, unconcerned seclusion
of, 9; his Natural History of Sel-
borne, 88.
Willard, Prof. Sydney, 132 n.
Williams, Roger, in doubt, 95.
Wisdom, generally outstays Error,
180.
Wood, Antony à, 73.
Wordsworth, on Gray, 35-38; Landor
on, 54.
World, The, a passenger on board The
Earth, 160, 161.
World's Progress, The, 160 n.
Wotton, Sir Henry, 71.
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