Chapter 168

Index to Extracts

Absalom and Achitophel, 196, 227–228, 274
Addison, Joseph, 243, 246, 277
Address to the Deil, 359
Address to Edinburgh, 311
Address to the King (Burke), 353
Adonais, 392, 449
Ælfric, 13–14
Æneid (Surrey), 97, 150
Alfred, King, 9, 51
All for Love, 200
Althea, To, 185
Alysoun, 30
Amoretti, 152
Anatomy of Melancholy, The, 154
Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, 378, 445
Ancren Riwle, 23
Androcles and the Lion, 543–544
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, 10
Antiquary, The, 447
Antony and Cleopatra, 121, 122–123
Areopagitica, 163
Arnold, Matthew, 156, 229, 516
Ascham, Roger, 155
Ask Me no More, 172
Asolando, 463–464
Astræa Redux, 195
Austen, Jane, 420–421
Autobiography, Gibbon’s, 359
Autumn, Ode to (Keats), 443
Autumn (Shelley), 443

Back to Methuselah, 545–546
Bacon, Francis, 136–137
Bale, John, 85
Ballad of East and West, The, 574
Ballad upon a Wedding, A, 186
Barbour, John, 44
Beaux’ Stratagem, The, 225–226
Bee, The, 296, 347
Behn, Aphra, 221–222
Beowulf, 4–5
Bible, the, 83–84, 132, 133
Biographia Literaria, 368, 381, 443–444
Black-eyed Susan, 275
Blake, William, 314, 352–353, 566–567
Blessed Damozel, The, 515
Blue Tit, The, 565–566
Boswell, James, 329, 358–359
Break, break, break, 460
Brooke, Rupert, 555
Browne, Sir Thomas, 176
Browne, William, 125, 223
Browning, Robert, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 512, 514, 516, 563, 571
Brus, The, 44
Brut, 18, 29
Bunyan, John, 210–211, 225, 574
Burke, Edmund, 332, 353
Burney, Frances, 354
Burns, Robert, 309, 310, 311, 312, 359, 570
Burton, Robert, 154
Butler, Samuel (1612–80), 208–209
Byron, Lord, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 446–447, 449

Cædmon, 12–13
Caliban upon Setebos, 465
Caller Water, 346
Campaign, The, 243
Campion, Thomas, 101
Carew, Thomas, 172
Carlyle, Thomas, 495–496, 513, 575
Castaway, The, 301
Castle of Indolence, The, 292–293
Cato, 277
Caxton, William, 67
Cenci, The, 392
Chamberlayne, William, 216
Channel Firing, 525–526
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40
Cherry Ripe (Campion), 101
Chesterfield, Lord, 342
Chevy Chace, 54–55
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 385, 448
Christabel, 377
Clare, John, 565–566
Cleannesse, 31
Cleveland, John, 182, 185–186
Clive, Essay on, 498–499
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 515–516
Cobbett, William, 440
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 443–444, 445–446
Colin Clout (Skelton), 81–82
Collins, William, 352
Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts, 271, 278
Compleat Angler, The, 184
Comus, 186
Confessio Amantis, 53
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The, 430, 444
Congreve, William, 204, 567
Conrad, Joseph, 529, 530
Coverdale, Miles, 84
Cowper, William, 301, 343–344, 352
Coy Mistress, To his, 185
Crabbe, George, 356
Crawford, Robert, 276
Cymon and Iphigenia, 197–198

Daffodils, To (Herrick), 222
Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The, 61
Davies, William H., 553
De Quincey, Thomas, 430, 444
Dead Drummer, The, 521
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, 327, 564
Defoe, Daniel, 250–251, 272, 277
Dekker, Thomas, 150
Deluge, The, 84–85
Deserted Village, The, 295, 356
Diary, Pepys’, 213
Dickens, Charles, 477
Dictionary, Johnson’s, 349
Doctor Faustus, 153–154
Don Juan, 386–387, 449
Donne, John, 103, 184
Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of, 202
Dreams of the Sea, 553
Drummond, William, 224
Dryden, John, 185, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199, 200, 202, 214, 217, 222–223, 227–228, 274
Dunbar, William, 61
Dunciad, The, 258

Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of, 152–153
Education of Nature, The, 374–375
Egoist, The, 484
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, 573
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 383
English Comic Writers, The, 432
Enoch Arden, 457
Epicene, 149
Epistle to Arbuthnot, 259, 274
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, 125
Epithalamion, 92
Essay on Clive, 498–499
Essay on Criticism, An, 256, 261
Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The, 202
Essay concerning Human Understanding, An, 219–221
Essay on Johnson, 360
Essays, Bacon’s, 136–137
Essays of Elia, The, 428, 444
Euphues and his England, 138–139, 154, 563
Eve of St. Agnes, The, 398–399, 446, 569
Eve of St Mark, The, 400
Evelina, 354
Everyman, 75
Examiner, The (Tory periodical), 279

Fables (Dryden), 222–223
Faerie Queene, The, 95, 155–156
Farquhar, George, 225–226
Ferdinand, Count Fathom, 360
Fergusson, Robert, 346
Fielding, Henry, 318, 320–321, 354–355
Fisher, John, 68, 80
Flaming Heart, The, 174
Flecker, James Elroy, 569–570
Fra Lippo Lippi, 512
French Revolution, The, 513
Frost at Midnight, 379
Funeral Sermon on Henry VII (Fisher), 80

Galsworthy, John, 568–569
Garden Fancies, 465
Gascoigne, George, 151
Gay, John, 275
Gibbon, Edward, 327, 358–359, 564
God’s Promises, 85
Godric, 24
Golden Journey to Samarkand, The, 569–570
Golden Wings, 514
Goldsmith, Oliver, 295, 296, 347, 356, 573–574
Gower, John, 53
Gray, Thomas, 188, 345
Grecian Urn, Ode on a, 402
Greene, Robert, 142–143
Groatsworth of Wit, A, 142–143
Gulliver’s Travels, 241, 277

Halbert and Hob, 571
Hamlet, 118, 121
Handlyng Synne, 30–31
Hardy, Thomas, 521, 522, 524, 525, 526, 571
Havelock the Dane, 30
Hazlitt, William, 432
Heaven, 554
Henry Esmond, 581
Henryson, Robert, 60
Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), 194, 195
Herrick, Robert, 222
Hind and the Panther, The, 217
History of England, The (Hume), 350–351
History of England, The (Macaulay), 513
Holy Sonnetts, 103
Holy Willie’s Prayer, 310
Hooker, Richard, 152–153
Hous of Fame, The, 39
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 97, 150, 151
Hudibras, 208–209
Human Understanding, An Essay concerning, 219–221
Hume, David, 350–351
Hunt, Leigh, 445
Hydriotaphia, 176
Hyperion, 399

Iliad (Pope), 256
In the Cemetery, 522
In Memoriam, 459
Induction, The, 98
Intimations of Immortality, 372, 374
Isabella, 401

James I of Scotland, 59, 81
John of Trevisa, 52
Jonathan Wild the Great, 318
Johnson, Samuel, 288, 289, 290, 349–350, 355, 357, 575
Johnson, Life of (Boswell), 329, 359
Johnson, Essay on (Macaulay), 360
Jonson, Ben, 125, 149
Journal of the Plague Year, A, 272, 276

Keats, John, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 446, 569
Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne, 214
King Arthur’s Tomb, 512–513
King Lear, 120, 157
King of Tars, The, 25
Kingis Quhair, The, 59, 81
Kipling, Rudyard, 564–565, 574
Knight’s Tale, The, 38
Knight’s Tomb, The, 379
Kynge Johan, 85

Lady of the Lake, The, 446
Lamb, Charles, 428, 444–445
Lamia, 400
Langland, William, 43, 53
Latimer, Hugh, 81
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The, 152–153
Layamon, 18, 29
Letter to his Wife (More), 80
Letters to his Son (Chesterfield), 342
Letters, Cowper’s, 343–344
Letters, Leigh Hunt’s, 445
Letters, Johnson’s, 290, 357
Letters, Walpole’s, 358
Life of Doctor Johnson, The (Boswell), 329, 358–359
Life of John Sterling, The, 496
Lives of the Poets, The, 350, 575
Locke, John, 219
Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of, 185, 228
Love in Fantastic Triumph sate, 221–222
Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The, 106
Lovelace, Richard, 185
Lycidas, 165
Lyly, John, 138, 154, 563–564
Lyndsay, Sir David, 82

Macaulay, Lord, 359, 498–499, 513
Macpherson, James, 349
Malory, Sir Thomas, 46–47, 52
Mandeville, Sir John, 45, 51–52, 153
Marlowe, Christopher, 109, 153–154
Marmion, 412–413
Marvell, Andrew, 185
Masque of Anarchy, The, 392
Measure for Measure, 121, 122
Melibæus, The Tale of, 37
Merchant of Venice, The, 157
Meredith, George, 484
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 120
Milton, John, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 186, 187, 562
Milton (Ernest Myers), 188–189
Modern Painters, 513–514
Moral Ode, 29
More, Sir Thomas, 80
Morris, William, 512–513, 514
Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 46–47, 52
Moti Guj—Mutineer, 564–565
My First Play (Lamb), 428
Myers, Ernest, 188–189

Natural History of Selborne, The, 355
Nigger of the Narcissus, The, 529–530
Night Thoughts, 271, 278
Noctes Ambrosianæ, 441
North, Christopher, 441
Northanger Abbey, 420–421
Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The, 40

O, My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, 309–310
O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut, 309
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 373–374
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 345
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 402
Ode to the West Wind, 393
Oh, to be in England, 516
Old Curiosity Shop, The, 477
Old Mortality, 440–441
On his Own Death (Swift), 237
On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 214
On Phillis, 182
On Prayer (Jeremy Taylor), 187
Ormulum, 20
Orphan, The, 217–218
Ossian, 349
Otway, Thomas, 217–218, 226

Pacchiarotto, 464
Paracelsus, 462
Paradise Lost, 144, 161, 562
Passions, The (Collins), 352
Pastoral Care, 9, 51
Pastorals (Pope), 255
Pearl, 149–150
Peele, George, 106
Pepys, Samuel, 213
Philips, Ambrose, 271
Phœnix, The, 13, 29
Pickwick Papers, The, 477
Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 565
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, 514
Piers Plowman, 43, 53–54
Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 210–211, 225, 574–575
Pine Forest, The, 395
Pippa Passes, 466
Places, 522–523
Pope, Alexander, 224, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 274, 351
Praise of Chimney-sweepers, The, 444–445
Prelude, The, 562
Princess, The, 458
Proclamation of Henry III, 51
Progress of Poesy, The, 188
Psalms, the Book of, 133
Purple Pileus, The, 535

Queen Mab, 390

Ralph Roister Doister, 78, 85–86
Rambler, The, 289–290
Rape of the Lock, The, 257–258, 351
Rarely, rarely, comest Thou, 394
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The, 67
Reflections on the French Revolution, 332
Rejected Addresses, 410
Rescue, The, 529
Resolution and Independence, 372
Rhapsody on Poetry, 278
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, 378, 445
Ring and the Book, The, 465, 563
Robert of Gloucester, 25
Robinson Crusoe, 250
Roderick Random, 346
Rokeby, 413–414
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 515
Rural Rides in England, 440
Ruskin, John, 501, 513–514

Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, 98
St. Luke, the Gospel of, 132
Samson Agonistes, 167
Sappho (A. Philips), 271
Sartor Resartus, 495
Sassoon, Siegfried, 571–572
Satires of Circumstance, 571
Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant, 82–83
Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth, 515
Scholemaster, The, 155
School for Scandal, The, 567–568
Schoolmistress, The, 351–352
Scott, Sir Walter, 412, 413, 414, 417–418, 446, 447–448
Sedley, Sir Charles, 218
Sensitive Plant, The, 395
Sermons, Latimer’s, 81
Shakespeare, William, 113, 118, 120, 121, 122, 151, 157, 569
Shakespeare (Matthew Arnold), 156
Shaw, George Bernard, 543–544, 545–546
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 390, 392, 393, 394, 395, 443, 449
Shenstone, William, 351–352
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 567–568
Simon Lee, 374, 566
Skelton, John, 63, 81–82
Skin Game, The, 568–569
Sleeping Beauty, The (Tennyson), 459
Smart, Christopher, 304
Smith, Horace, 410
Smith, James, 410
Smollett, Tobias, 346, 360
Song to David, The, 304
Songs of Experience, 314
Songs of Innocence, 352~353, 566–567
Songbooks of the War, 571–572
Sonnet, by Matthew Arnold, 156;
by Drayton, 152;
by Ernest Myers, 188–189;
by Shakespeare (cvi and cxvi), 113;
by Spenser, 152;
by Surrey, 151;
by Wordsworth, 188
Spectator, The, 246, 277
Spenser, Edmund, 92, 95, 155–156
Steel Glass, The, 151
Steele, Sir Richard, 218
Sterne, Laurence, 323, 360
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 510
Stones of Venice, The, 501
Strew on her Roses, Roses, 516
Suckling, Sir John, 186
Sumer is i-cumen in, 26
Surrey, Earl of, 97, 150, 151
Sweet Content, 150
Sweet Lullaby, A, 155
Swift, Jonathan, 237, 239, 241, 277, 279
Synge, J. M., 568

Tale of Melibæus, The, 37
Tale of a Tub, The, 239
Talisman, The, 447–448
Tam o’ Shanter, 570
Tamburlaine the Great, 109
Task, The, 352
Tatler, The, 248
Taylor, Jeremy, 187
Tempest, The, 122, 151, 569
Tennyson, Lord, 457, 458, 459, 460, 512
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 526
Testament of Cresseid, The, 60
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 481–482
Thomson, James (1700–48), 292
Three Maries, The, 73–74
Thrie Estatis, Satyre of the, 82
Tinker’s Wedding, The, 568
Tintern Abbey, 448
To Althea, 185
To Autumn (Keats), 443
To his Coy Mistress, 185
To Daffodils (Herrick), 222
To Mary in Heaven, 309
To Milton (Wordsworth), 188
To Spring (Surrey), 151
Tom Jones, 320, 354
Tono-Bungay, 534–535
Travels (Mandeville), 45, 51–52, 153
Tristram Shandy, 323, 360
Triumph, The, 125
Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer), 35
Twelfth Night, 121
Tyndale, William, 83–84

Udall, Nicholas, 78, 85–86
Ulysses (Tennyson), 512
Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings, 185, 228

Valediction forbidding Mourning, A, 184
Vanity of Human Wishes, The, 288, 355–356
Venice Preserved, 226
Village, The, 356
Vision of Judgment, The, 446–447

Waller, Edmund, 217, 224
Walpole, Horace, 358
Walton, Isaac, 184
Waverley, 417
Way of the World, The, 204, 566
Ways to Perfect Religion, The, 68
Wedding, A Ballad upon a, 186
Weir of Hermiston, 510
Wells, H. G., 534–535
West Wind, Ode to the, 393
When I am Old, 553
White, Gilbert, 355
Why come ye not to Court?, 63–64
Wilde, Oscar, 565
Wilson, John, 441
Winter Night, A, 312
Wordsworth, William, 188, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 448, 562, 566
Wyclif, John, 83

Young, Edward, 271, 278