Index

ABELARD, 6.

Beauclerk, 204.
Acta Diurna, 75.

Beauvais, the Bishop of, De
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719) Quincey's essay, 191-195.

17; essay, Ned Softly's Poetry, Bee, The, 303.
145–149; on Milton, 172; share Bible, 269.

in Spectator, 120, 121. Bickerstaff, Isaac, 119, 141.
Advantages of Living in a Garret, Biographical and critical essay,
Johnson's essay, 49–55.

165-263.
Advice to Young Wives, Swift's Bolingbroke, 216.
essay, 91-99.

Bonstetten, 246.
America, Wordsworth's reference, Borrow, George, 122.
211, 212.

Boswell, 27, 201, 204, 210, 303.
Analogy, Butler's, 249.

Boyce, 209.
Anecdote, place in letter-essay, Brown, James, 240.

leads to short story, 87. Browne, Sir Thomas, adds spir-
Anselm, 6.

itual quality to essay, 23, 24;
Apocalyptic quality in essay, Lamb compared to, 305.
268.

Burke, Edmund (1729-1797),
Areopagitica, 26, 41, 42.

letter-essay on French Revolu-
Aristotle, 3.

tion, 99-103; 204, 207.
Armada, Froude's essay, 222- Burns, 195.
230.

Burton, Robert (1576 - 1640),
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888), freed essay from moral tone,
introduces interpretation in 24; essay, Remedies of Dis-
critical essay, 166 ; essay on contents, 31-35.
Gray, 240-249; essay on Ox- Butler, 248.
ford, 269, 288–290.

Butter, Nathaniel, 76.
Art, Pater on, 292.

Byron, 238, 287, 305.
Authors' Club, Proceedings of an,
Goldsmith's essay, 149-156. CADENUS, 220.

Carlyle, 8, 13; Hero Worship, ser-
BACON, FRANCIS (1561-1626), 13; monic essay, 17; contribution

father of essay, aim to in to critical essay, 168; essay
struct, compared with Mon on Samuel Johnson, 195–203;
taigne, 21; essay, Of Love, 29, Wordsworth's opinion of, 213;
30; Truth, 4.

Whitman, essay, On the Death
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), of, 236-240; if left out of

268; essay, The Saints' Rest literature, 238.
270-272.

Carter, Mrs., 211.
Beattie, 241.

Casuist, 182.

a

Censorship of press, established, Death, The Shame of, Sir Thomas
1662, 78.

Browne's essay, 35-39.
Characters of Shakespeare's Deathbed Scene, A, 301.

Plays, Hazlitt's essay, 178. Death of Thomas Carlyle, Whit-
Charity, Thoreau's essay on, 320 man's essay, 236-240.
326.

Deaths of Little Children, Leigh
Chorus, Greek, 175.

Hunt's essay, 64-68.
Christ's Hospital Five and De Comines, Philip, 115.

Thirty Years Ago, Lamb's es- Defoe, Daniel (1661–1731), 15,
say, 311-320.

73; father of modern fiction,
Church learning, effect on literary 74, 79; essay, Human Glory, 87;
expression, 6, 7.

introduces short story essay,
Citizen of the world, 304.

116-118; Description of
City Night-Piece, A, Goldsmith's Quack Doctor, 127-133.
essay, 309-311.

element, 27; biographical, 28; 210, 211, 303; A City Night-
genesis of, 1-18; classic essay, Piece, 309-311.
19-69; letter essay, 71-111; Good Man's Day, A, Bishop Hall's
short story, 115 - 162; bio-

essay, 81-85.
graphical and critical, 165- Gothic school of fiction, 16.
263.

Graeme, James, cf. Duke of Mont-
Essayists, methods, 17-18; great

rose, 262.
essayists, 13; minor essayists, Gray, Thomas, Arnold's essay on,
308.

167, 240, 240-249; Elegy, 241,
Essays in History and Biog- 242, 246.

raphy, 258; Essays in Criticism Great Armada's Home-Coming,
(Arnold), 289.

The, Froude's essay, 222-230.
Eugenio (Swift), 138.

Great English Letter-Writers, 5,
Evolution, 296.

73.
Expedition of Jean Ribaut, Greatness, Cowley's essay, 42–49.
Parkman's essay, 249–258. Greek influence on essayists, 115.

Greek Tragic Drama, Coleridge's
FAMILIAR Essay, 299-344.

essay, 175-179.
Felicity, Domestic, Steele's essay, Grey, Lord, 263.
140-145.

Grub Street, 208.
Fielding, 207.

Guardian, The, 171.
First published letters, 73.
First regular daily, 79.

HALL, BISHOP (1574-1656), first
Florio, Montaigne's translator, published letters, 73, 74; Epis-
12.

tle to Lord Denny, 81-85.
Flying Post, 30, 79.

Hamilton, Gerard, 204.
Forbes, Sir William, 241. Hamlet, Hazlitt on, 178, 185,
Foscari, 287.

193.
Frazer's Magazine, 171.

Harrison, Frederick, 269.
Friars, 9.

Hazlitt, William (1778–1830), 13,
Froude, James Anthony (1818– 14; critical essay, 28, 169; on

1894), 169, 171; essay on the The Fear of Death, 55–64;
Armada, 222-230.

essay on Hamlet, 178–185.
Fry, Mrs., 324.

Health and Long Life, Temple's
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1651), 25; essay, 124-127.

essay, Of Jesting, 39-40, 305. Health as affecting genius, Goethe
Function of Chorus in Greek

Tragic Drama, Coleridge's es- Hebrew literature, 4.
say, 175–179.

Hellenics, Landor's dedication,

109.
GARRICK, DAVID, 204.

Herford, Prof. C. H., on Sir T.
Genius, Whitman on, 237.

Browne, 24.
“Genteel” English, 121. Heroes, Carlyle on, 202.
Gibbon, 204.

Heroes and hero-worship, 168.
Glory, The Instability of Human, Heroism of a Man of Letters, The
Defoe's essay, 87-90.

on, 247.

74; The Murder of Bucking- | LAMB, CHARLES (1775–1834), 13,
ham (letter to Lady Scroop), 14, 15, 26, 27, 121; as essayist,
85-87.

123; essay, Rejoicing Upon the
Hugo, Victor, Pater's reference, New Year's Coming of Age,
292.

156–162; inheritor of Gold-
Humor added to essay, 25. smith, 305; essay, on Christ's
Hunt, Leigh, The World of Hospital, 311-320.

Books, 17; as classic essayist, Landor, Walter Savage (1775–
28; essay, Deaths of Little 1864), letter, On the Accession
Children, 64-69.

of a Liberal Pope, 109-111.
Hyperion, 331.

Lanfranc, 6.
"Hypertatus," 49.

Langton, 204.
Hysteric prose, 267.

Latimer, 267.

Latin influence on essay, 115.
IDOLS, Carlyle on, 199. Lecture, akin to essay, 8.
Ignorant Essays, Dowling, 327. Leicester, Earl of, 124.
IMPASSIONED PROSE (Section v.), Letter-Essay, 71-111; change
265-297.

from letter in James Howell,
Indians, and Ribaut, 254, 255. 73; instructive, 74; journalistic,

75; combines newspaper and
JESTING, Thomas Fuller's essay news letter, 79; to-day, 80.

from Holy and Profane States, Libel, 79.
39-40.

Licensing Act, 78.
Joan of Arc, De Quincey's essay, Lives of the Most Eminent Eng-
186–195.

lish Poets (Johnson), 171.
Johnson, Hester, 217.

Love, Bacon's essay on, 29–30.
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), Lowell, James Russell (1818–

depreciates essay, 13; contri- 1891), critical essayist, 70;
bution to, 27; On the Advan- essay on Emerson, 231-236,
tages of Living in a Garret, 49– 306.
55; on Steele, 119; starts bio-
graphical essay, 166; on Mil- MACAULAY, LORD (1800-1859),
ton as poet, 171; Carlyle's es- 13, 14; on news letter, 76; on
say on, 195; Dr. Johnson and Licensing Act, 78; critical es-
His Times, Macaulay's essay, sayist, 168; essay, Dr. Johnson
203-211.

and His Times, 203-211.
Johnsonese, 303.

Machiavelli, influence on essay,
Johnson's Dictionary, 201.

115.
Jones, Sir William, 204. Mackintosh, Sir James, 241.
Journalism, beginning in essay, Maclaren, Ian, 304.
75.

Mahomet, 200.
Jusserand, English Wayfaring Maid Marion, 125.
Life, 9.

Mallett, 207.
Juvenal, 301.

Marlborough, Duke of, Defoe's

letter on his death, 89.
KEAN as Hamlet, Hazlitt on, Marquis of Montrose, Skelton's
185.

essay, 258–263.
Keats, Dowling's essay on, 327- Maturin, in Gothic School, 16.
339.

Medina Sidonia, 222.
Kemble as Hamlet, 185. Mercure Scandale, 118.

Michelet, 192.

Parkman, Francis (1823–1893),
Milton, political essayist, 26; essay on Jean Ribaut, 249–

Johnson's essay on, 171-175; 258.
241, 301.

Passion in prose, 267; Pater on,
Mira, Softly's poem to, 146. 292.
Mirabeau, 200.

Pater, Walter (1839-1894), pas-
Mist, M., Journal, 118; Defoe's sion in, 269; essay, Philosophy
letter to, 127.

of Life, 290–293.
Modern Readers' Bible, 4. Penn, 324.
Monastery, 68.

Pennsylvania Debt, Sydney
Montaigne, master essayist, con Smith's essay, 103-109.

tributes personal note, in- Pericles, his speech as essay poem,
fluence on English, 10-12; on 5.
Bacon, 75, 115.

Philanthropy from a Personal
Montrose, Skelton's essay on, 171,

Point of View, Thoreau's essay,
258-263.

320-326.
More, Sir Thomas, 262.

Philosophy of Life, Pater's essay
Morning Chronicle, Sydney 290–293.

Smith's letter, 103–109. Pioneers of France in New World,
Moulton, R. G., 4.

249.
Murder of Buckingham, The, Place of Milton as a Poet, The,

from Familiar Letters, Howell's Johnson's essay, 171-175.
essay, 85–87.

Plato, 3.

Poet in Johnson's time, 204.
NAPOLEON, 200.

Ponderousness in essay, 302–303.
Nature, influence of, 305. Pope, criticism of Defoe, 117,
Ned Softly's Poetry, Addison's 207, 208, 222, 241.
essay, 145-149.

Pope, On the Accession of a
Newman, Doctor, 289.

Liberal, Landor's letter, 109–
News from Hull, 77.

111.
News-letters, 76.

Pope Pius IX, Landor's dedica-
Newspapers in America, 212. tion to, 109-111.
Nicholson, Bishop, 26.

Post-Exilic period, 4.
Night Among the Pines, A, Printing-press factor in essay, 10.

Stevenson's essay, 339–344. Protectorate, influence in jour-
Notizie Scritte, 75.

nalism, 77.
Novel in eighteenth century, 16 Proved Practice, 127.

Pseudonym, Goldsmith's, 304;
OBERMANN, 244.

Lamb's, 305.
Observator, the, 78.

Public Advertiser, The, 80.
Opium, De Quincey's reference,
278.

QUACK DOCTORS, Defoe's essay,
Originality, the nature of, 198. 130.
Osborne, 208.

Queen of France, 102.
Oxford, Arnold's essay on, 269,
288-290.

RADCLIFFE, Mrs., in Gothic

School, 16.
PAMPHLETS as news journals, 76. Reading aloud, Swift's advice, 97.
Pan's Pipes, Stevenson's essay, Reeve, Clara, in Gothic School,
293–297.

16.