B

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MRS. ODIN ROBERTS

COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE COLONIAL PRESS.

SECTION

CONTENTS

BOOK II-THE RENAISSANCE

(Continued)

CHAPTER FIFTH

The Christian Renaissance

1. Decay of the Southern Civilizations....

II.-Luther and the Reformation in Germany.

III. The Reformation in England.....

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3

7

14

34

45

58

72

76

78

83

84

100

Part I.-The Roisterers

I.-The Excesses of Puritanism....

132

II-A Frenchman's View of the Manners of the Time.

135

III.-Butler's Hudibras

137

VI.-Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar...

VII. Superficiality of English Comedy..

....

I.-Dryden's Début

II.-Dryden's Family and Education....

III.-Dramatic Theories of Dryden...

222

223

226

VII.-How Literature in England is occupied with Politics and

Religion ..

257

VIII.-Development of the Art of Writing.

.....

263

IX.-Dryden's Translations and Adaptations.-His Occasional

II. Brutality of the People.-Private Morals.-Chesterfield

and Gay

273

III.-Principles of Civilization in France and England.

281

IV.-Religion

286

V.-The Pulpit

292

VII. The Constitution.-Locke's Theory of Government..

VIII.-Parliamentary Orators

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300

305

311

IX.-Doctrines of the French Revolution Contrasted with the

Conservative Tendencies of the English People......... 320

CHAPTER FOURTH

Addison

I.-The Significance of the Writings of Addison and Swift.... 327

II.-Addison's Character and Education.......

III.-Addison's Seriousness.-His Nobility of Character...

IV. The Morality of Addison's Essays....

...

327

333

336

...

344

349

V.-How Addison made Morality Fashionable.-Characteristics

of his Style

VI.-Addison's Gallantry.-His Humor.-Sir Roger de Cover-

ley. The Vision of Mirza...

CHAPTER FIFTH

Swift

I.-Concerning Swift's Life and Character..

II.-Swift's Prosaic and Positive Mind..

III.-Swift as a Political Pamphleteer.

IV. Swift as a Humorist.-As a Poet.

V.-Swift as a Narrator and Philosopher...

CHAPTER SIXTH

The Novelists

I.-The Anti-Romantic Novel

II.-Daniel De Foe ...

III.-The Evolution of the Eighteenth Century Novel.....