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BIBLICAL REFERENCES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.

The following references in the works of well-known writers in English Literature have obviously been suggested by passages occurring in the Books of Daniel and the Minor Prophets.

DANIEL.

The Captives in Babylon. (Dan. i. 1-3.)

Greene-Orlando Furioso."

Milton- Paradise Regained '-B. iii. 1. 281.
Herbert-The Church Militant '-1, 100.
Byron-Hebrew Melodies- O Weep for those

of Babylon.'

Moore-Sacred Songs

Fallen is Thy Throne.' Bishop Bickersteth-Yesterday, To-day and For Ever'-B. vi. 1. 557, et seq.

Daniel Interpreting the Chaucer-Cant. Tales ''Monk's Tale'-1.180.

Dreams. (Dan. ii. 25.)

Nebuchadnezzar and the

Image of his Dream.

(Dan. ii. 31.)

Shakespeare-Merchant of Venice'-Act iv.
Sc. 1, 1. 223.

Cary's Dante' Paradiso '-B. iv. 1. 13.
Bishop Bickersteth Yesterday, To-day and For

Ever'-B. vi. 1. 577.

Langland-Piers Plowman'-P. vii. 1. 331.
Gower-Confessio Amantis'-Prologue, 1. 598.
Chaucer-Cant. Tales' - 'Monk's Tale'-1. 188.
Cowper-Olney Hymns-B. i. No. 73.
Bishop Bickersteth-Yesterday, To-day and For
Ever'-B. vi. 1. 583.

Mudie-Miscellaneous Poems-In Babylon.'
Symonds-Poems-Nebuchadnezzar's Image.'

The Three Captives and the Fiery Furnace.

(Dan. iii. 1-30.)

Shakespeare-Henry VIII.'-Act i. Sc. 1, 1.

139.

Keble-Christian Year'' Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego.'

Bishop Bickersteth-Yesterday, To-day and For
Ever'-B. vi. 1. 604.

Alice Fausset 'The Three Children.'

Nebuchadnezzar's Pun- Chaucer- Canterbury Tales'-'Monk's Tale'

ishment.

(Dan. iv. 31.)

-1.200.

Gower-Confessio Amantis'-B. i. Sec. 5, 11. 230-290.