Acta Diurna, 75. Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) 17; essay, Ned Softly's Poetry, 145-149; on Milton, 172; share in Spectator, 120, 121. Advantages of Living in a Garret, Johnson's essay, 49-55. Advice to Young Wives, Swift's essay, 91-99.
America, Wordsworth's reference, 211, 212.
Analogy, Butler's, 249. Anecdote, place in letter-essay, leads to short story, 87. Anselm, 6.
Apocalyptic quality in essay, 268.
Areopagitica, 26, 41, 42. Aristotle, 3.
Armada, Froude's essay, 222- 230.
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888), introduces interpretation in critical essay, 166; essay on Gray, 240-249; essay on Ox- ford, 269, 288-290. Art, Pater on, 292. Authors' Club, Proceedings of an, Goldsmith's essay, 149-156.
BACON, FRANCIS (1561-1626), 13; father of essay, aim to in- struct, compared with Mon- taigne, 21; essay, Of Love, 29, 30; Truth, 4.
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), 268; essay, The Saints' Rest 270-272. Beattie, 241.
Beauvais, the Bishop of, De Quincey's essay, 191-195. Bee, The, 303. Bible, 269.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 119, 141. Biographical and critical essay, 165-263. Bolingbroke, 216. Bonstetten, 246. Borrow, George, 122. Boswell, 27, 201, 204, 210, 303. Boyce, 209.
Brown, James, 240.
Browne, Sir Thomas, adds spir- itual quality to essay, 23, 24; Lamb compared to, 305. Burke, Edmund (1729-1797), letter-essay on French Revolu- tion, 99-103; 204, 207. Burns, 195.
Burton, Robert (1576-1640), freed essay from moral tone, 24; essay, Remedies of Dis- contents, 31-35. Butler, 248.
Butter, Nathaniel, 76. Byron, 238, 287, 305.
CADENUS, 220. Carlyle, 8, 13; Hero Worship, ser- monic essay, 17; contribution to critical essay, 168; essay on Samuel Johnson, 195-203; Wordsworth's opinion of, 213; Whitman, essay, On the Death of, 236-240; if left out of literature, 238. Carter, Mrs., 211. Casuist, 182.
Censorship of press, established, | Death, The Shame of, Sir Thomas
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Hazlitt's essay, 178. Charity, Thoreau's essay on, 320- 326.
Chorus, Greek, 175. Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago, Lamb's es- say, 311-320.
Church learning, effect on literary expression, 6, 7.
Citizen of the world, 304. City Night-Piece, A, Goldsmith's essay, 309-311.
Chivalry, Burke deplores passing of, 103. Chokhmah, 4.
Cicero, influence as essayist, 6. Classic Essay, 19-69. Clergymen as essayists, 10; The Fates of Clergymen, Swift's essay, 134.
Club as background for essay, 118.
Coffee-room as news centre, 76. Coleridge, 10; Lamb's letter to, 77; contribution to critical, essay, 67; essay on Chorus in Greek Drama, 175-178, 213, 305, 318. Collins, 207.
Confessions, Rousseau's, 292. Cooper, Parkman on, 70. Corusodes, 136.
Cowley, Abraham, 13, 26, 27; Johnson on, 302.
Criticism, development of, 166. Cromwell, 200.
Culture and Anarchy, 288. Curll, 208.
Daily Courant, first daily, 79. Daily paper, the first, 79. Dandolo, 287.
Dawkes's News-Letter, 79. Death, The Fear of, Hazlitt's essay, 55-64.
Browne's essay, 35-39. Deathbed Scene, A, 301.
Death of Thomas Carlyle, Whit- man's essay, 236-240. Deaths of Little Children, Leigh Hunt's essay, 64-68. De Comines, Philip, 115. Defoe, Daniel (1661-1731), 15, 73; father of modern fiction, 74, 79; essay, Human Glory, 87; introduces short story essay, 116-118; Description of a Quack Doctor, 127-133. Delany, 215.
Denny, Lord, Hall's epistle to, 81.
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859), 167; essay on Joan of Arc, 186-195, 268; compared with Ruskin, 268; The Vision of Sud- den Death, 272-283. Description of a Quack Doctor,
Deserted Village, The, 304. Dictionary, Johnson's, 201. Discontents, Remedies of, Bur- ton's essay, 31-35. Dowling, Richard (1846-1898), 308; My Copy of Keats, 327- 344.
Dress, Swift's advice on, 96. Dryden, 301.
Emerson, 169; Lowell's essay on, 231-236; essay, A Visit to Wordsworth, 211-215. English Humorists of the Eigh- teenth Century, 215; English Traits, 211.
Essay, 3; as written word, 4; as oratory, 5, 10; value in eighteenth century, 16; con- sidered inferior form, 13, 15; as sermon, short story, letter, 17; expression of personality, 17; critical essay, 17; humor and emotion, 25; political use, 26; familiar essay, 27; preaching
FAMILIAR Essay, 299-344. Felicity, Domestic, Steele's essay, 140-145. Fielding, 207.
First published letters, 73. First regular daily, 79.
Florio, Montaigne's translator, 12.
Flying Post, 30, 79. Forbes, Sir William, 241. Foscari, 287.
Frazer's Magazine, 171. Friars, 9.
Froude, James Anthony (1818- 1894), 169, 171; essay on the Armada, 222-230. Fry, Mrs., 324.
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1651), 25; essay, Of Jesting, 39-40, 305. Function of Chorus in Greek Tragic Drama, Coleridge's es- say, 175-179.
GARRICK, DAvid, 204. Genius, Whitman on, 237. "Genteel" English, 121. Gibbon, 204.
Glory, The Instability of Human, Defoe's essay, 87-90. Goethe, 213, 232, 247. Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), 13, 76, 123; Proceedings of a Club of Authors, 149-156; 204,
210, 211, 303; A City Night- Piece, 309-311.
Good Man's Day, A, Bishop Hall's essay, 81-85.
Gothic school of fiction, 16. Graeme, James, cf. Duke of Mont- rose, 262.
Gray, Thomas, Arnold's essay on, 167, 240, 240-249; Elegy, 241, 242, 246.
Great Armada's Home-Coming, The, Froude's essay, 222-230. Great English Letter-Writers, 5, 73. Greatness, Cowley's essay, 42-49. Greek influence on essayists, 115. Greek Tragic Drama, Coleridge's essay, 175-179. Grey, Lord, 263. Grub Street, 208. Guardian, The, 171.
74; The Murder of Bucking- ham (letter to Lady Scroop), 85-87.
Hugo, Victor, Pater's reference, 292.
Humor added to essay, 25. Hunt, Leigh, The World of Books, 17; as classic essayist, 28; essay, Deaths of Little Children, 64-69. Hyperion, 331. "Hypertatus," 49. Hysteric prose, 267.
IDOLS, Carlyle on, 199. Ignorant Essays, Dowling, 327. IMPASSIONED PROSE (Section v.), 265-297.
Indians, and Ribaut, 254, 255.
JESTING, Thomas Fuller's essay from Holy and Profane States, 39-40.
Joan of Arc, De Quincey's essay, 186-195.
Johnson, Hester, 217. Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), depreciates essay, 13; contri- bution to, 27; On the Advan- tages of Living in a Garret, 49- 55; on Steele, 119; starts bio- graphical essay, 166; on Mil- ton as poet, 171; Carlyle's es- say on, 195; Dr. Johnson and His Times, Macaulay's essay, 203-211.
Johnsonese, 303.
Johnson's Dictionary, 201. Jones, Sir William, 204. Journalism, beginning in essay, 75.
Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life, 9. Juvenal, 301.
KEAN as Hamlet, Hazlitt on, 185.
Keats, Dowling's essay on, 327-
LAMB, CHARLES (1775-1834), 13, 14, 15, 26, 27, 121; as essayist, 123; essay, Rejoicing Upon the New Year's Coming of Age, 156-162; inheritor of Gold- smith, 305; essay, on Christ's Hospital, 311-320.
Landor, Walter Savage (1775- 1864), letter, On the Accession of a Liberal Pope, 109-111. Lanfranc, 6. Langton, 204. Latimer, 267.
Latin influence on essay, 115. Lecture, akin to essay, 8. Leicester, Earl of, 124. Letter-Essay, 71-111;
change from letter in James Howell, 73; instructive, 74; journalistic, 75; combines newspaper and news letter, 79; to-day, 80. Libel, 79. Licensing Act, 78.
Lives of the Most Eminent Eng-
lish Poets (Johnson), 171. Love, Bacon's essay on, 29-30. Lowell, James Russell (1818-
1891), critical essayist, 70; essay on Emerson, 231-236, 306.
MACAULAY, LORD (1800-1859), 13, 14; on news letter, 76; on Licensing Act, 78; critical es- sayist, 168; essay, Dr. Johnson and His Times, 203-211. Machiavelli, influence on essay, 115.
Mackintosh, Sir James, 241. Maclaren, Ian, 304. Mahomet, 200. Maid Marion, 125. Mallett, 207.
Marlborough, Duke of, Defoe's letter on his death, 89. Marquis of Montrose, Skelton's essay, 258-263. Maturin, in Gothic School, 16. Medina Sidonia, 222. Mercure Scandale, 118.
Place of Milton as a Poet, The, Johnson's essay, 171-175. Plato, 3.
Poet in Johnson's time, 204. Ponderousness in essay, 302-303. Pope, criticism of Defoe, 117, 207, 208, 222, 241.
Pope, On the Accession of a Liberal, Landor's letter, 109– 111.
Pope Pius IX, Landor's dedica- tion to, 109-111. Post-Exilic period, 4. Printing-press factor in essay, 10. Protectorate, influence in jour- nalism, 77.
Proved Practice, 127. Pseudonym, Goldsmith's, 304; Lamb's, 305.
Public Advertiser, The, 80.
PAMPHLETS as news journals, 76. | Reading aloud, Swift's advice, 97. Pan's Pipes, Stevenson's essay, Reeve, Clara, in Gothic School, 293-297.
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